slow Nvidia video

[David A. Bandel]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:17 PM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I have a new system with an Intel DG451D motherboard, Core2 Quad
>> processor, and 8 Gb RAM.
>>
>> The Intel graphics card on this board isn't the greatest, so I thought
>> I'd put an Nvidia GeForce 7200GS PCIE board in.
>>
>> Don't know what I've done wrong, but although the screen is beautiful,
>> it takes about 30 seconds to paint.  With this card in, the system is
>> ssslllllllooooooooooowwwwwwww.  I know the card is fine because in the
>> system I just took it out of it flies.  Even after loading the nvidia
>> drivers, it's still slooowww.
>>
>> I'm open to suggestions on how to fix this.
>
> I'd like to see an nvidia-bug-report.log.

There is none -- there's no software bug.  The instant the card is
installed, the entire video system slows to a crawl.  I keep looking
in the BIOS for something that will help, but the only thing I see is
an option to select "Auto, IDG, PCI, PCIE".  Unfortunately, selecting
PCIE doesn't have any apparent effect other than to turn off the IDG
output.  Even the BIOS screen paints excruciatingly slow.  I thought
installing the NVidia driver would help, but it didn't.  This appears
to be a hardware clash, but I find no way to fix it in BIOS or with
jumpers.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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