Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
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Hi all,
Again, clearly not well up on hardware...
Do graphics cards have to have the same type of memory as used on the board? i.e. DDR2 graphics card so much have DDR2 RAM?
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VrsTurbo
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Registered: 8th Jun 10
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nope
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
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lol well this is what I originally thought, so I just went ahead and bought a card with a different type of ram. The card isn't working and they seller reckons it's my fault because I've picked a card with different memory?
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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The type of memory on your motherboard is totally irrelevant.
Whats up with the graphics card?
If it physically fits the slot it's normally either a power issue, not being turned on in the bios (if you have built in vga on motherboard) or a faulty card.
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
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Well, initially before the drivers were installed, the card came on and worked (as such) but obviously not very well, mega low res and low colour. When I installed the drivers, Windows will list it in the device list but it will disable it because there's a problem. The BIOS has no option to disable on board graphics, only switch to PCI, and when I do that all the PC does it beeps wildly on boot then goes in a loop keep rebooting and beeping, without me being able to see what's going on with it on the screen.
Contacted the seller and he said it's my fault for reasons above 
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