Alright, I just bought a "HIS radeon HD 4670" for my 2003 Sony Vaio PCV-RZ26G. Upon reading instructions i tried uninstalling my old graphics drivers throught the device manager, never seemed to work till one time the display was cleary bigger and grainier. I then powered down, unpluged everything, put in new one, installed new drivers with cd and Wa-La it works, a little glitchy but only because still have older cpu so thats just bottlenecking but still is working. Now friend was over btw and suggests that i change the dpi to 120 because of my 42" screen with tiny icons so did then restarted and then I think I remeber nothing like no signal or something with errors, eventually i got to change it back but dont know if it did any real damage because now no signal but comp still booting up but without beep meaning I guess its not finding graphics card, so turn off for night and tried in morning and it works. Soooooo..... next i got to running game update and an hour in my comp froze, so restarted and again no signal with no beep, eventually fourms tell me its the cmos battey because when its does beep and get signal it says CPU hung for frequency meaning battery dead and couldnt save my info(also explains why it starts up fine once a day then nothing because of the little juice it gets back im guessing), so i go get 5 dollar battery and changes nothing, in fact'd i think it would never work.
Now with all that crap there I'm at the point were it most likely is going to be my BIOS that is needing updating, again its what the fourms are telling me but since every problem is different in its own little way I'm posting this because i'm going to make sure before i go and spend anymore money. Reason why is.. 1. worked first time meaning if BIOS cant see it now, how did it at begining? and 2. Bios updates aparently arent free for me atleast, 30 dollars, please.
As for other info, the BIOS maker is "Award", now "Phoenix" aparentlly. Other questions like power supply is 400w and is very minimum but others have it work and yes connected the aug. power to it.
Im stumped, any help appreciated.
THANKS
Now with all that crap there I'm at the point were it most likely is going to be my BIOS that is needing updating, again its what the fourms are telling me but since every problem is different in its own little way I'm posting this because i'm going to make sure before i go and spend anymore money. Reason why is.. 1. worked first time meaning if BIOS cant see it now, how did it at begining? and 2. Bios updates aparently arent free for me atleast, 30 dollars, please.
As for other info, the BIOS maker is "Award", now "Phoenix" aparentlly. Other questions like power supply is 400w and is very minimum but others have it work and yes connected the aug. power to it.
Im stumped, any help appreciated.
THANKS
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