slow Nvidia video

[Brad De Vries]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:44 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.
>
> Ciao,
>
> David A. Bandel
> --
> Focus on the dream, not the competition.
>            - Nemesis Air Racing Team motto
>

Wow, that sounds a lot like the old interrupt issue.  I remember when I had
a serial port and another device were using the same interrupt and the
serial port ran about 150 baud even though I was connected at 19,200.

Not fun.

Brad.
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