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Default Installing a new video card help! - 11-09-2002, 09:53 PM

Im losing my old skool gf2 mx! cry: and installing my gf 4 ti 4200 now evil: I just need some help. How do i go by installing this puppy. Do i just yank out the old one and plugg in the new one. Or what?
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 09:58 PM

Yeah but unplug your PC and stuff it is quite easy. If you think you could screw up then take it to where you know pros will do it and it should cost no more than $50 but that is the last option and read the manual it came with duh!
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 09:58 PM

Manual cry: Just tell me if i can yank it out and put the new one up and install the drivers.
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 10:04 PM

[quote="[2ndS.S.]Enigma":6a677]Manual cry: Just tell me if i can yank it out and put the new one up and install the drivers.[/quote:6a677]

Thats what we did with ours or so I was told cause I was out. YEAH MAKE SURE YOU UNPLUG IT! IT WILL WORK
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 10:06 PM

K cuase some guy told me i had to unistall it and then reinstall the one that comes with the comp the dell somethign 3d card. So cool all i do is yank it out *make sure no wires are conected* and put in the new one. and put the drivers in.
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 10:13 PM

all you do is uninstall your drivers for that card turn your PC off then to removal and add the new one and turn it back on. Make sure it is unpluged.
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 10:30 PM

be sure to stick it in the right hole and dont touch too much of the important stuff
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 10:34 PM

Same advice that Old just said can be very useful when you're fornicating your significant other.
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 10:37 PM

some more advise:

-ground yourself to the case before you touch anything
-make sure its the right slot (AGP or PCI)
-install the new drivers for the new video card
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 10:39 PM

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Same advice that Old just said can be very useful when you're fornicating your significant other.

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don't forget to clean out the area surrounding the card of dust
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 10:39 PM

AND, if it doesn't fit, don't force it in.
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 10:44 PM

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AND, if it doesn't fit, don't force it in.
...that's right....no means no!! oOo:
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 10:45 PM

I love being unmarried, you can turn just about everything into a sexual inuendo.
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 10:46 PM

marriage is a sinful word
  
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Default 11-09-2002, 10:51 PM

So is fornication... and michigan.
  
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