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Shadow_11   03-09-2009 at 04:37:40 PM

Does anyone out there know how a person can determine if a video card or any other hardware will work in a particular machine. Specs on the internet just don't seem to do the job. I have a hard drive that is supposed to work in my machine. but my machine won't recognize it. Even when I use it as a slave.

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mi1ez   03-09-2009 at 04:58:04 PM
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What hardware, what PC?
I find google normally suffices, and if I can't find what I'm after I look on here!

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Devastator_uk   03-09-2009 at 08:05:37 PM
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A bit more info would help.

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Shadow_11   03-09-2009 at 08:27:47 PM
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I have an old machine, about 5 years old. It's a T5082. Ive bee to E-machines website but they are not much help. I've tried 3 different video cards and none of them work. I loaded up the driver for each one but no luck. An error message tells me the motherboard is not compatable even though the card says it is. Same with the hard drive. The specs don't tell me anything. I have an ATI X600 on order. I hope it works. Anything else you need?

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Devastator_uk   03-09-2009 at 10:59:26 PM
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Would be handy to know which cards you've tried.
I know the X700s only work if all 16 PCI-E lanes are enables (sometimes only 12 or 8 are).
Not sure how much an X600 costs these days, but given my past experience with X700s, I would go for a HD 2400 which are nice and cheap.

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Shadow_11   03-10-2009 at 01:09:37 AM
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I tried the GF 6600 540M 256MB DDR3 PCI-E and the GeForce FX5600 128 bit AGP. Neither one worked.

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Shadow_11   03-10-2009 at 01:10:30 AM
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Oh, and the one that's built in is only an X200.

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loneninja   03-13-2009 at 02:41:26 AM
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Shadow_11 wrote :

I tried the GF 6600 540M 256MB DDR3 PCI-E and the GeForce FX5600 128 bit AGP. Neither one worked.



How could you have tried both a PCI-E card and AGP card on the same motherboard in the same graphics slot? They aren't compatible with each other.

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Devastator_uk   03-14-2009 at 12:43:37 PM
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Some motherboards do have both PCIe and AGP slots, although quite rare. However according to this his doesn't:
http://www.emachines.com/products/ [...] prod=T5082

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DaveF1953   03-16-2009 at 07:50:48 PM
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Your best bet is to get some new gear. You are throwing money away at a five year old machine. Let it go. Go on Ebay and build a system for under $400

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