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AGP TO PCI EXPRESS METHOD
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take one out, put the other in, boot up.
at the very MOST, you'll need to reinstall the drivers. But the ati drivers should pick the new card up straight away.
at the very MOST, you'll need to reinstall the drivers. But the ati drivers should pick the new card up straight away.
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I went from an AGP ATI X800XT to an Nvidia 7900GT PCI-E.
Whilst still having AGP card installed, I removed ATI drivers and removed ULI AGP drivers.
Rebooted into safe mode and ran driver cleaner. (Cancel the found new hardware wizard)
Rebooted, went into bios and selected PCI-Express as the primary graphics display.
Removed AGP card, inserted PCI-E card.
Rebooted into Windows and installed Nvidia drivers. Reboot.
That worked for me.
If you're using a card from the same manufacturer, then I guess you could skip the remove drivers option, but it might be safer to do so anyway.
Whilst still having AGP card installed, I removed ATI drivers and removed ULI AGP drivers.
Rebooted into safe mode and ran driver cleaner. (Cancel the found new hardware wizard)
Rebooted, went into bios and selected PCI-Express as the primary graphics display.
Removed AGP card, inserted PCI-E card.
Rebooted into Windows and installed Nvidia drivers. Reboot.
That worked for me.
If you're using a card from the same manufacturer, then I guess you could skip the remove drivers option, but it might be safer to do so anyway.
X600pro is slower speed wise than a 9600XT iirc
the original 9600pro and 9600XT's were pretty good and they thrashed the Nvidias FX5600 range, after the release of the X600 ATI lost a lot of mid end sales as it had no other advantage over a 9600 other than the fact it was PCI-E, and the 6600GT Nvidia counterpart walked all over it.
the original 9600pro and 9600XT's were pretty good and they thrashed the Nvidias FX5600 range, after the release of the X600 ATI lost a lot of mid end sales as it had no other advantage over a 9600 other than the fact it was PCI-E, and the 6600GT Nvidia counterpart walked all over it.