slow Nvidia video

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:44 PM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Wow, that's a classic SBIOS bug.  You're screwed.



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