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Hello.
I am going to add some new parts to my 2½ years old Dell Dimension
8200, 2.0 Ghz, 256 MB Ram.
I am adding three parts:
First some new RDRAM 2x128 MB, so I'll have 512 MB. That will do a
lot, but I really could use more. Couldn't afford it though.
Next is a PCI to USB 2.0 Host Adapter (from Planet).
Last, there is the most important addition: a new graphics card.
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600XT 128 MB. I know it's not the latest, but it
was cheap and will hopefully allow me to play Half-Life 2 decently.
My question is, what can I do to make it all work?
I have never tried to install anything in a computer before, and I am
hoping a friend with experience can help me.
I have the latest update of the BIOS, which AFAIK is the A09. But it
is pretty old. Is there anything I have to do about that?
Right now I have the NVidia GeForce 3 Ti200 card that came with the
computer. I know I should change my video driver to a default windows
driver before installation. Should I try to completely remove the
NVidia driver somehow?
Should I install everything at once or add one part at a time and turn
on the computer to let it detect it?
Any advice will be appreciated very much.
Thank you in advance
- Klaus Thomsen
Hello.
I am going to add some new parts to my 2½ years old Dell Dimension
8200, 2.0 Ghz, 256 MB Ram.
I am adding three parts:
First some new RDRAM 2x128 MB, so I'll have 512 MB. That will do a
lot, but I really could use more. Couldn't afford it though.
Next is a PCI to USB 2.0 Host Adapter (from Planet).
Last, there is the most important addition: a new graphics card.
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600XT 128 MB. I know it's not the latest, but it
was cheap and will hopefully allow me to play Half-Life 2 decently.
My question is, what can I do to make it all work?
I have never tried to install anything in a computer before, and I am
hoping a friend with experience can help me.
I have the latest update of the BIOS, which AFAIK is the A09. But it
is pretty old. Is there anything I have to do about that?
Right now I have the NVidia GeForce 3 Ti200 card that came with the
computer. I know I should change my video driver to a default windows
driver before installation. Should I try to completely remove the
NVidia driver somehow?
Should I install everything at once or add one part at a time and turn
on the computer to let it detect it?
Any advice will be appreciated very much.
Thank you in advance
- Klaus Thomsen