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Re: Garage Sale Computers

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 25 Jul 21 1:29 AM | 39 view(s)
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Re: “But this computer's small expansion slot is an AGP, is it not?”Okay, I already see that the smaller expansion port is not AGP at all. It's a PCI Express x4. Pretty dumb of me since you can see it says it's PCI in photo #3. That voids my entire line of thought from the previous post about needing an AGP graphics card.

At this point, I don't know what it would take to get a different graphics card working in this little computer. By any chance, do you have a spare copy of Windows 7? THAT would probably work.

A silverlining to all of this… when I packed for the drive home, I threw a closed bottle of saline solution into a box that had my digital camera in it. The bottle leaked and the camera got soaked. If you've had any experience with salt water, you know that it's quite corrosive. I figured that my camera was probably ruined since the case, the camera and even the battery got wet.

But I dried it out today and used it to take the photos for this thread. Whew! The camera is old, but it was $300 in 2014. It still works well and would be expensive to replace.







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Re: Garage Sale Computers
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Sun, 25 Jul 21 1:17 AM 		Msg. 20560 of 60008

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Re: “I have a spare graphics plug in card, pci express slot. Its old but around right era for what you have.”Thanks! I might just take you up on that since I'm not having any luck. But first, let me tell you a little more about what I'm dealing with and you can then tell me if you've actually got something YOU DON'T NEED that will work.

This eMachines computer is really small - just 4 inches tall with only two expansion slots. If you look at my first photo, you'll see that the Radeon graphics card I've got alongside it is taller than the computer! Yup, it's 4.75 inches tall. Fortunately, it's only that tall because of the card's backplane, and the backplane wasn't too hard to remove at which point I got the card to fit (but it could no longer be secured with a screw, which wouldn't really work as a long-term solution.)

Unfortunately, after hooking it all up, the card either doesn't work ... or the slot I plugged the card into is incompatible with the slot or computer ... or I have to somehow disable the onboard VGA graphics before an expansion graphics card will work (but I don't see a BIOS option for that.)

My understanding of 2012-era computers is poor since I rarely touched hardware once I moved to Virginia in 2005. But this computer's small expansion slot is an AGP, is it not? I'm thinking that only an AGP graphics card will work with the computer and that, probably, if I had one plugged in it would automatically disable the VGA graphics adapter. Part of why I think that is because when I pulled this graphics card from the computer it was originally in, the original computer's on-board VGA port kicked in automatically.

What do you think? Photos follow:

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