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3 total messages Started by awright Sun, 22 Nov 1998 00:00
Dell optiplex 433/le
#56
Author: awright
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 00:00
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Hi									    does anyone have any experience in upgading this
machine.The problem I have is that I have one of these machines running
a 486 processor using windows 3.1,unfortunately the on-board graphics
system can only deliver 16 colours and most of my sons games require 256
colours,is there any way I can upgrade the graphics system to meet this
spec.Also as I bought the system second hand I have no manual to show me
how to diable the on-board graphics system in order to add a graphics
card.													MANY THANKS								TONY.
Re: Dell optiplex 433/le
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Author: Stephen McCartney
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 00:00
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I have no experience with that particular machine, but I do know that
on-board graphics are often very difficult to disable.  Try searching the
BIOS setup for anything referring to graphics.  If that fails, try looking
on the motherboard for a jumper switch.

Stevo
Re: Dell optiplex 433/le
#58
Author: Ben Boulton
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:00
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I do not have any experience of this machine but I done a similar thing on
other machines with built in VGA.
If you have a look at the motherboard there will be a line of jumpers
normally labelled or at least with a number and somewhere else will be list
of what number does what.
You may have to remove a jumper or reposition it. Look for something like
VGA enabled/disabled.

Hope this helps a bit.

awright@netcomuk.co.uk wrote in article <36583216.6664@netcomuk.co.uk>...
> Hi									    does anyone have any experience in upgading this
> machine.The problem I have is that I have one of these machines running
> a 486 processor using windows 3.1,unfortunately the on-board graphics
> system can only deliver 16 colours and most of my sons games require 256
> colours,is there any way I can upgrade the graphics system to meet this
> spec.Also as I bought the system second hand I have no manual to show me
> how to diable the on-board graphics system in order to add a graphics
> card.													MANY THANKS								TONY.
> 
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