also, a question about mATX boards, or any really. I bought my bro an ASUS mATX board with onboard video, and the text has been hella blurry since installation. None of the standard windows workarounds seem to do anything about this. got any ideas?
Regarding your bro's set up: do you have the shared ram maxed out or just at 1 mb? Are you running at the native resolution of the display? Are you connecting via a regular VGA connector, DVI, or using a DVI-to-VGA adapter? What windows solutions have you tried?
The shared RAM control is in the BIOS. It allows you to set how much system RAM can be used by the onboard video. It defaults to 1MB IIRC so that might be the issue. In my BIOS, there's a "Chipset" menu and within there is the "Internal Graphics Mode Select" setting that allows me to toggle the onboard video off and on and also allocate RAM to share with that video, 1MB or 8MB.
What size is the monitor and what resolution is it? Is it a CRT or LCD?
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also, a question about mATX boards, or any really. I bought my bro an ASUS mATX board with onboard video, and the text has been hella blurry since installation. None of the standard windows workarounds seem to do anything about this. got any ideas?
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Regarding your bro's set up: do you have the shared ram maxed out or just at 1 mb? Are you running at the native resolution of the display? Are you connecting via a regular VGA connector, DVI, or using a DVI-to-VGA adapter? What windows solutions have you tried?
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I haven't looked at shared ram, where would that be? I'm connecting via the regular vga connector, as his monitor is not DVI. Running XP Pro.
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What size is the monitor and what resolution is it? Is it a CRT or LCD?
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