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16MB Annihilator 2 (GeForce 2 GTS)!!!!! I've NEVER!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!!!

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From: Lee York
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 01:55
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OK I am pretty freaked out now! Please someone tell me that it is something
technical that can be fixed easily.

I've just built a new computer and installed my new GeForce 2 card.
Everything is fine, but then I restart, and I notice when it shows the
graphics card BIOS it said 16MB GeForce 2 GTS. So I said to myself that that
can't be possible, so I must have read wrong. So I check it in Display
Center and it said the exact same thing. 16MB of memory!!!

I freaked out!!! I thought to myself "THEY DON'T MAKE A 16MB GEFORCE 2 GTS
CARD???!!!" So what the hell is going on??

Is it a jupper I can change on the card to make it use the "OTHER" 16MB??

Does it need a BIOS upgrade for it to reconize the full 32MB??

Is there a conflict with the card and the motherboard (Giga-byte
GA-6VXC7-4X)??

Have I not inserted it properly??

Are there some motherboard BIOS settings that I must change??

Have I given off a shock to the card and short curcuited something that make
the card forget the other 16MB??

Did this one 16MB card somehow find it's way into my hands??


Can someone PLEASE help me and tell me what is going on? I'm going out of my
mind here!!!




Misc. Details:-
I bought it last year October during my visit to America. I am in South
Africa. I brought it home planning to buy a new computer and put it in.
Finally the time has come and something it wrong. So just going to the shop
that I purchased it from and swapping it for a brand new one is sort of out
of the question. But if push comes to shove I will have to send it back to
family who lives over there and ask them to take it back for me. I do still
have the reciept from where I bought it from.

I am hoping maybe I could sort it out with someone who deals with Creative
Labs here in South Africa, and maybe get them to either look at it to see if
it is defective and be kind and replace it for me, or they could send it
back to Creative Labs America and they could sort it out from there.

Another thing that strikes me as unusual is that it states that it is SD RAM
but on the card itself on the memory modules it says SG RAM. Is it suppose
to say that?

The Model Number is :- GB0010 (that's what it says on the card and in Device
Manager). I thought it would say something like "Creative GeForce 2 GTS" or
"Creative Annihilator 2" under Device Manager, but instead it says a boring
GB0010.

The Serial Number is :- TGB0010020088887, I don't know, maybe just incase
some Creative staff might need that.


PLEASE to anyone that is reading this could they please help me?

Thanks,
Lee York
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Subject: 16MB Annihilator 2 (GeForce 2 GTS)!!!!! I've NEVER!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
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