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Dec 28, 2000, 3:33am

Hey everyone -

I just got a new chip/motherboard for Christmas. Appearantly it uses
a new graphics card. With my old graphics card things worked fine.
Now that my computer is updated - whenever I go into Active Worlds
my mouse pointer goes nuts. It starts blinking with the animates, and
when I move it it's terribly slow. This only happens when I'm in AW.
Does anyone know what could be wrong? And how to fix it? It makes
it difficult to build without knowing where my pointer is. Thanks
in advance.

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Dec 28, 2000, 8:11am

What's your video card? Got the latest video drivers? Try changing your mouse cursor to 16-color or lower.

Built-in video cards are a bad idea. Disable the one on the motherboard and put your old one back in, if you can, or just get a motherboard without built-in video.

[View Quote] > Hey everyone -
>
> I just got a new chip/motherboard for Christmas. Appearantly it uses
> a new graphics card. With my old graphics card things worked fine.
> Now that my computer is updated - whenever I go into Active Worlds
> my mouse pointer goes nuts. It starts blinking with the animates, and
> when I move it it's terribly slow. This only happens when I'm in AW.
> Does anyone know what could be wrong? And how to fix it? It makes
> it difficult to build without knowing where my pointer is. Thanks
> in advance.

Dec 28, 2000, 8:45am

Hey Eep,

My video card is a Intel(r) 82815 Graphics Controller 4.12.01.2607,
is what it says according to system properties, it came with my
Asus CUSL2 motherboard. I've been looking for drivers all night,
I even installed Direct X 8.0, and nothing seems to be working.
Also I notice the textures look as plain and clear to me as they
did before we put the new motherboard/chip etc. in.

I am baffled lol.


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Dec 28, 2000, 8:46am

Hey Eep,

My video card is a Intel(r) 82815 Graphics Controller 4.12.01.2607,
is what it says according to system properties, it came with my
Asus CUSL2 motherboard. I've been looking for drivers all night,
I even installed Direct X 8.0, and nothing seems to be working.
Also I notice the textures look as plain and clear to me as they
did before we put the new motherboard/chip etc. in. Even the fog
looks odd. And 2.2 runs even worse :-(

I am baffled lol.


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Dec 28, 2000, 8:50am

First of all, don't reply by newsgroup AND email--pick ONE (1) reply medium. Second, learn to use your newsreader so you don't double post.

That video chip is crap. Take the motherboard back and get one without built-in video. What's your old video card? Use that instead, unless you get something better, which you should probably do anyway.

[View Quote] > My video card is a Intel(r) 82815 Graphics Controller 4.12.01.2607,
> is what it says according to system properties, it came with my
> Asus CUSL2 motherboard. I've been looking for drivers all night,
> I even installed Direct X 8.0, and nothing seems to be working.
> Also I notice the textures look as plain and clear to me as they
> did before we put the new motherboard/chip etc. in.
>
> I am baffled lol.
>
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Dec 28, 2000, 4:34pm

eep,
I had the same problem with my eMachine P.O.S...used all the documentation
for the motherboard and it still wants to install the on-board graphics
card.I purchased a Voodoo3 2000 and that works fine,but everytime I re-boot
it still tries to install the old Rage IIc,I just hit cancel everytime.
rocknrollwoman,Maybe you can try a setup like that?

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Dec 28, 2000, 6:17pm

Beserker, you can let the Rage II install, and then disable it in Device
Manager. Windows will no longer try to install it or use it after that.

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Dec 28, 2000, 7:40pm

k y l e,
Thanks I'll do that.


[View Quote] Beserker, you can let the Rage II install, and then disable it in Device
Manager. Windows will no longer try to install it or use it after that.

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Dec 29, 2000, 12:41am

Hi all,

Asking a friend of mine last night, he said that the problem occured
because it was only using it's built in chip for graphics. Which is
ok, but... for 3D environments such as Active Worlds, can slow stuff
down considerably because it has to exchange lots of RAM back and
forth, etc. So, today, we took the comp back to the shop, and they
put in a GeFORCE graphics card, and turned off the chip. Now
everything works fine :-) Thanks for everyones help.

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"Ya know it's my thing, to be part
of someone. As a true friend, is a
part of me." - Stephen Stills
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Dec 29, 2000, 8:17am

Look in the BIOS to see if the onboard/built-in video can be disabled. If not, yank if off the motherboard and see how the system likes that. <smirk> No, really, you get what you pay (or don't pay) for. All those lame systems with rebates galore are just pure, unadulterated shit. Get as little built onto the motherboard as possible or you'll be regretting it later on when you upgrade sound, video, etc. Keep it modular; modularity is good; modularity is the way. Modular ground, good; infinite ground object, bad.

[View Quote] > I had the same problem with my eMachine P.O.S...used all the documentation
> for the motherboard and it still wants to install the on-board graphics
> card.I purchased a Voodoo3 2000 and that works fine,but everytime I re-boot
> it still tries to install the old Rage IIc,I just hit cancel everytime.
> rocknrollwoman,Maybe you can try a setup like that?
>
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Dec 29, 2000, 11:18am

[View Quote] And you still paid for the onboard stuff you don't use now, or did they give
you the geforce card for free?

Rolu

Dec 29, 2000, 8:18pm

I go along with Eep on this one. Take the board back and get a MB without
onboard video and get a AGP video card. TNT2, Matrox g400/32+meg, or
Geforce 2 w/32+meg.
ASUS has a GeForce 2 card it cost more than other GF2 cards though.
Paul

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Dec 29, 2000, 8:20pm

LOL guess I was a little late with my last reply.

Paul

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Jan 18, 2001, 11:07pm

ASUS CUSL2 is availiable without video. Big mistake getting it with. Only
onboard things you'll ever want unless you're building a lightweight is IDE
RAID and perhaps SCSI.

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