New video card

Have an Abit KG7 Raid with a Matrox Millennium VGA video card on a PCI slot,
after changing the monitor (from a 15 to a wide 20 inch), I'll change also
the video card.
I am waiting for an AGP Ati Sapphire Radeon 9225 256MB ram, that have also
DVI, as the monitor.
I'm asking if I have to install some drivers for the motherboard, before
installing the video card, the operating system is Windows XP SP2.


Cheer

Sergio

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:18:18 +0200, "sergiorom"
<sergiotro@****REMOVE***@inwind.it> wrote:

>Have an Abit KG7 Raid with a Matrox Millennium VGA video card on a PCI slot,
>after changing the monitor (from a 15 to a wide 20 inch), I'll change also
>the video card.
>I am waiting for an AGP Ati Sapphire Radeon 9225 256MB ram, that have also
>DVI, as the monitor.
>I'm asking if I have to install some drivers for the motherboard, before
>installing the video card, the operating system is Windows XP SP2.

Your procedure should be:

- Download the latest drivers for your ATI card.

- Uninstall the Matrox drivers.

- Power down.

- Swap cards.

- On power up, when XP asks to install drivers, click CANCEL.

- Install ATI drivers.

If the ATI card doesn't recognize your new monitor by it's brand name,
locate the .inf file for your monitor and install.

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> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:18:18 +0200, "sergiorom"
> <sergiotro@****REMOVE***@inwind.it> wrote:
>
>>Have an Abit KG7 Raid with a Matrox Millennium VGA video card on a PCI
>>slot,
>>after changing the monitor (from a 15 to a wide 20 inch), I'll change also
>>the video card.
>>I am waiting for an AGP Ati Sapphire Radeon 9225 256MB ram, that have
>>also
>>DVI, as the monitor.
>>I'm asking if I have to install some drivers for the motherboard, before
>>installing the video card, the operating system is Windows XP SP2.
>
> Your procedure should be:
>
> - Download the latest drivers for your ATI card.
>
> - Uninstall the Matrox drivers.
>
> - Power down.
>
> - Swap cards.
>
> - On power up, when XP asks to install drivers, click CANCEL.
>
> - Install ATI drivers.
>
> If the ATI card doesn't recognize your new monitor by it's brand name,
> locate the .inf file for your monitor and install.

Thnks a lot !!!!!


Cheer

Sergio

sergiorom wrote:

> Have an Abit KG7 Raid with a Matrox Millennium VGA video card on a PCI slot,
> after changing the monitor (from a 15 to a wide 20 inch), I'll change also
> the video card.
> I am waiting for an AGP Ati Sapphire Radeon 9225 256MB ram, that have also
> DVI, as the monitor.
> I'm asking if I have to install some drivers for the motherboard

Not for the motherboard itself but the operating system may need drivers to be
able to use all the features of your new Radeon.


> before installing the video card, the operating system is Windows XP SP2.

XP SP2 already had drivers for my Nvidia AGP card. It's possible that it may
also 'recognise' the Radeon. Try it first and see if XP auto-configures itself.
If not it'll operate in VGA (640x480) or SVGA (800x600) mode most likely until
you get the drivers.

Graham

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>
>
> sergiorom wrote:
>
>> Have an Abit KG7 Raid with a Matrox Millennium VGA video card on a PCI
>> slot,
>> after changing the monitor (from a 15 to a wide 20 inch), I'll change
>> also
>> the video card.
>> I am waiting for an AGP Ati Sapphire Radeon 9225 256MB ram, that have
>> also
>> DVI, as the monitor.
>> I'm asking if I have to install some drivers for the motherboard
>
> Not for the motherboard itself but the operating system may need drivers
> to be
> able to use all the features of your new Radeon.

Good news, no matter to surf on the web to find driver for KG7 :-)


>> before installing the video card, the operating system is Windows XP SP2.
>
> XP SP2 already had drivers for my Nvidia AGP card. It's possible that it
> may
> also 'recognise' the Radeon. Try it first and see if XP auto-configures
> itself.
> If not it'll operate in VGA (640x480) or SVGA (800x600) mode most likely
> until
> you get the drivers.
>
> Graham

Have the cd, with the card, with driver for XP, will try first as you said.

Cheer

Sergio