Tachyon Graphic Card
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important that the correct AGP driver be installed before installing an AGP
video card in your system.
An incorrect or missing GART driver can result in AGP memory not
being detected or a black screen after Windows
®
loads.
How to determine what motherboard chipset is present on your system:
1.
Right-click My Computer and choose Properties.
2.
Click the (Hardware Tab in Windows
®
2000/Windows
®
XP) Device
Manager tab then scroll to the bottom of the device list.
3.
Select System Devices.
4.
Scroll through the list of System Devices until you find a listing for the
AGP controller.
5.
The chipset manufacturer’s name will appear as the device name.
Once you have determined the chipset manufacturer for your motherboard,
obtain and then install the latest AGP drivers from:
VIA Technologies
http://www.viaarena.com
Acer Laboratories (ALI)
http://www.ali.com.tw
Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS)
http://www.sis.com
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
http://www.amd.com
Intel Technologies
http://support.intel.com
General Motherboard/chipset information
h
ttp://www.motherboards.org
Uninstalling your current video card and
driver
Before you install your Tachyon series graphics card, it is important that you
remove the current video card and its driver. You can remove most video card
drivers from Windows
®
via an uninstall utility provided by the card’s
manufacturer---typically, this is an entry in the Programs menu. If no
manufacturer-provided uninstall utility is provided, you can remove the driver
by selecting it from the Add/Remove Programs menu in the Windows
®
control
Panel.
When the graphics card driver has been removed, the system should reboot.
1.
Close all applications that are currently running.
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