Sir,
     This one is fairly easy...the best bet is to always have a separate
video card now 256 mb cards for $100 plus or minus a few dollars just let
the store best buy, or newegg or compusa know what your mother board is. Its
very easy to install. 2. also buy min. 1 to 2 gb of ram sdram ddr2 at 400 to
800 mhz. $149 for 2gb of ram or 1gb for a little more than half the price. I
am not certain the company who built your computer actually prepared you for
any future computing with your video on motherboard setup.

Good luck,
William Slater

On 6/15/07, Greg Purvis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> My computer system finally got old and it crashed.
> I asked a local repair shop for a replacement of whatever hardware
> needed to be replaced so that the computer would perform at least as
> well as before.
> I got a motherboard with a video 'card' built into it, to replace my
> ASUS card, and now my DVDs are jumpy, the system hangs a lot with black
> screen, contents of windows take up to a minute to refresh, and I can't
> see text clearly in several programs.
>
> The motherboard is a ASUS Skt. AM2, GF6150, M.ATX, 2PCI/PCI-e  .
> I'm using a PC with an XP Pro OS, service pack 1.
>
> It needs some serious tweaking.  I need advice, and to find tutorials
> that will guide me.
> First, I need a background understanding of what's different about the
> combination motherboard-video card, from the earlier style of
> components, why this is better (or worse), and what typical pitfalls
> exist which I, a dunce, should be looking to avoid.
>
> Also, I had 1 gig RAM in the old system, and when this new board went
> in, the store gave me only half that RAM.  I thought they were adding
> this 512 RAM to what I already had (I forgot to ask if they were
> planning to upgrade with new hardware to match previous system
> performance by reducing the RAM by half).
> I'm mentioning this because I suspect this cut in Memory might be
> contributing to the overall problems.  I'm hoping for information that
> will help me be clear on a few basic facts, so I have some place to get
> started.
> I don't have much familiar background understanding yet.
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all help.
> GP
>
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