My brother wants to get a new graphics card. How can he tell whether he has an AGP or a PCI connection? Any recommendations for which cards to look at? Can all cards connect to a monitor, or do the cards with TV out capability require you to connect them to your television? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
1. Depends how old his computer is..most PCs have AGP cards now 2. ATi and nVidia cards are always top notch, they provide low, mid and high budget gfx cards. The cards performance depends on how much he is willing to spend 3. All Video cards can connect to a standard VGA monitor, they often come with the optional tv-out and a DVI connector for newer LCD flatscreen monitors
AGP normally has a brown socket on the mother board that is offset relative to the PCI slots...and there is only one AGP slot. PCI normally has multiple slots are light beige. That's the relaiable way to knowing. But if you don't want to open the box, sometimes you can briefly see during boot-up if you have an AGP card or you can go into the bios and see if it makes any AGP references in there.
I received a message on a blue screen on one of my computers when I tried to log on to any of the XP acounts and the message reads:: STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} The Windows Logon system Process terminated unexpectedly with a status o. The system has been shut down. I've tried System Restore, that doesn't help. I believe it may need SP1 on this system but I cannot get online to download it because I get the blue screen and the message appears when I try to log on. The computer will start fine in Safe Mode but as you know I cannot connect to the Internet in Safe Mode. Any suggestions?
Related to above^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I have a computer on the same network as the one I described above and the same thing happened to another computer so now I have two computers doing the same thing.
