what is a video card and how do I know if my computer has one or not?
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Below is a few different methods of determining the type of video card in an IBM compatible computer. Although most of these methods are for IBM compatible computer's, Apple computer's could also use some of the methods listed below to determine the type of their video card. \n\nMethod One: \n\nMany versions of Microsoft Windows will automatically detect and install your video card. Assuming no video issues currently exist with the video card you can determine the type of video card under display adapters in Device Manager.\n\nNote: If you are experiencing video issues or the video card is being detected as a "Standard VGA" adapter it is likely what Microsoft Windows is not detecting the type of video card and if you need to determine the type of video card for drivers you will need to try the next step. \n\nMethod Two: \n\nMany video cards and chipsets will list the type of video card and/or memory during the POST. Try rebooting the computer and as it is first booting press the "Pause / Break" key to temporarily halt the computer's boot process and read the text on the screen. If you are unfamiliar with video card manufacturers / chipsets write down some of the company names you see and search our video card driver section for that company.  \n\nMethod Three: \n\nThe below steps require that the user first get to a MS-DOS prompt. Information about getting to a MS-DOS prompt can be found on document CHDOS. \n\nAt the C:&#92;> prompt type the below commands.\n\ndebug <press enter>\n\nAt the - prompt type the below command. \n\nd c000:0040\n\nAfter typing the above command you should receive several lines of text similar to:\n\nC000:0040    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................ \nC000:0050  E9 63 7B 00 B4 10 49 27 - E9 FE 2B E9 F7 2B 50 4D  .c{...I'..+..+PM \nC000:0060  49 44 58 00 5B 00 00 00 - 00 A0 00 B0 00 B8 00 C0  IDX.[........... \nC000:0070  00 5B 53 54 42 20 6E 56 - 49 44 49 41 20 54 4E 54  .[STB nVIDIA TNT \nC000:0080  20 76 65 72 2E 20 31 2E - 31 30 20 0D 0A 00 1B 43  ver. 1.10 ....C \nC000:0090  6F 70 79 72 69 67 68 74 - 28 43 29 31 39 39 38 20  opyright(C)1998 \nC000:00A0  53 54 42 20 53 79 73 74 - 65 6D 73 20 49 6E 63 0D  STB Systems Inc. \nC000:00B0  0A 00 22 6C 2C 0A 01 00 - C3 50 24 7F E8 60 36 58  .."1,....P$..'6X \n\nAs you can pick out in the above dump this gives you enough information to determine the make and the year made on the video card. On line 4 you can see the make of this video card which in this case is a nVIDIA TNT which would be the Riva TNT chipset. The next line you notice the version of the card and finally the line thereafter is the copyright or the year manufactured generally.\n\nIf you are unable to capture any information which sounds like the video card you can also type\n\n-d c000:0090\n\nThe above line will give you a dump similar to the above example however may have additional information about the video card.\n\nNote: If the video card is onboard you may get the motherboard name and/or chipset. If you have an onboard video card you should get the video drivers for your chipset. Commonly the video drivers / chipset drivers are available through the motherboard manufacturer. \n\nOnce you're ready to exit the debug prompt type "quit" to exit back to the MS-DOS prompt. If you wish to close the MS-DOS window type "exit".\n\nMethod Four: \n\nUnplug everything from the back of the computer and open the computer and look for any visual identification directly off of the video card or motherboard. Many times you can find the manufacturer name, model, serial number, and/or other unique identifications that can be used to identify the type of video card or video chipset you have. \n\nMethod Five: \n\nIf you are unable to locate a manufacturer or model number of the video card, however are able to locate a FCC identification number it is recommended that you perform a FCC search using t
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Video cards are hardware, you can't download them.  However, if you want to update the drivers on your video card, go to the manufacturer's website.  They give away updates there for downloading.
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I was in Dell Technical Support for a year, so before you go ahead and buy any Video card, Just check whether the laptop is compatiblw with a video card.\n   To check go to www.support.dell.com and then put in the service tag or the express service code on the laptop in the section where it says to select a product once u put theat number in it will show u the model number for ur laptop and all the compatible hardware. \nThen u can make an informed decision\nHope this helped
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Theoritically you can detect a card. by using functions like init graphics in c-language. but what this does is simply make a system call, which inturn becomes a call to device driver.\n\nSo basically you don't want to detect a controller, but to control it through smart programs. For example while initializing graphics in programs you might want to specify resolutions and colors used and amount of memory you want to use ( less memory and less resolution and less colors means your graphics program/animation runs fast and does not tie up CPU.\n\nEven with this concepts you can programs similar to the external controllers, but the basics is that you cannot really detect a card unless you wanna install your own driver or a system call that does not call driver but uses assembly code directly ( its very very complex do do this, as every combinationn of hardware works little different. And the original driver developers write code in a reusable way for all combinations. ), to talk to video memory.\n\nOne example for you might be to directly write the video memory at top of RAM (0xFFFFF. Read exact numbers and peices of code from internet or texts for your environment and OS), which can change the characters in your text mode. Many colorful text editors are written by directly accessing the video memory area of RAM. Similar things are accomplished by writing to video memory ( not text one ) of the RAM. But this involves interrupts and then void pointers which is more system concepts, and code is very very less portable, and dangerous interms of hardware. Some combinations of interrupts result in physical damage of devices. Think if head of floppy reader rests on the floppy when its rotating. Its not code but a bug or even a possible candidate for virus.\n\nHope it helps u to understand in whatever you want to do.
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You need a video card with two outputs. After installing the card's driver, you need to extend the Windows Desktop to both screens (in Control Panel).
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Find out what graphics card you have and visit the companies website, they should offer free driver updates
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ATI Radeon X1900 cards are computer graphic cards that render the display on your computer LCD or Monitor.\n\nwhereas\n\nOsprey 560 is a video capture card for video streaming. You used it to record video stream from other sources like dvd player, video cameras, etc
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you should ask how i can check that iam having a onboard graphics or dedicated graphic card.
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You need to install the driver for your video card/chipset.
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I suppose you are refering to Video Adapters, they are also known as VGA cards. Their primary function is to provide information for the PC's monitor such as (LCD,CRT) to display to the user.
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first, plug the on board video card back in to get to your control panel. \nsecond go to your control panel, click on system, then click on device manager. find your graphics card, and first check to see if the drivers for your new card are properly installed. if they are, find your onboard driver, probably located above the new one and click properties and disable that card, and enable the new card, restart your computer. That should work. \nthird, if your driver was not installed, install it, disable your old graphics card, enable your new card, shutdown. should be good to go from there.\nfourth, if that doesnt work maybe the card is not supported by your computer's mobo or processor. not sure what to do from there. gl
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system device manager wont tell you the actual card version, you will need to physically remove the card and find its version number. It will be printed on the card. For instance, if you have an ati radeon 7500 video card there will likely be anywhere from 2 to 5 versions.
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Go to control panel. Click on systems. Go to hardware and then click on device manager. You should see it under your Display adapter. Click on the + to see what card you have.
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You must have direct-x installed\nIf you do, go to your start menu and click run\ntype 'dxdiag' and hit enter\nin the dialog box that shows up, go under video and see what graphics card is listed.\nThen you can google for the drivers\n\nIf this doesnt work,\nRight click on my computer and select properties\nunder hardware, select device manager\nunder video cards, look for the name and google for drivers\n\nIf that too doesnt work,\nopen up your cpu and look at the graphics card itself. It will definetely have the manufacturers name printed on it\nthen google for drivers\n\nPeace.
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Try asking your computer supplier or your vid card supplier
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Okay, here is a site that tests video cards: http://www.tomshardware.com/site/vgacharts/\nHere is a place to find them for good prices:\nhttp://www.newegg.com/\nThe rest is up to you.
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video card and graphics card mean the same thing.