Here's a very good piece of advice. If you use Nvidia graphics controllers and decide to temporarily use an ATI, back up all valuable data. This will help you when you format and reinstall your operating system. Yep. That's right. After taking out an Asus ATI card being tested (it's an awesome 512meg AGP whamma jamma) then replacing it with the Nvidia that was originally in the machine, things went berserk. None of the controls for the Nvidia worked. Even after over 100 manual registry edits. Wasted a day yesterday trying to correct the problem and finally reinstalled XP to make it work properly.The Asus ATI card is possibly the best card ever for an AGP equipped machine. Phenomenal graphics and games like crazy. But, a BIG BUT, I think the AMD (they own ATI) people are complete horses' asses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They literally sabotage your machine in an effort to keep you from switching back to Nvidia. Really don't think Asus had anything to do with it since ATI/AMD is the GPU manufacturer. I will damn sure think twice before buying another product from AMD. Forgot to mention this is the second machine in the past week that has had this problem. Actually, I was going to order one of these very video cards this week for my AGP gaming machine. Not gonna' happen!
In all fairness I must admit the ATI/AMD cards are excellent performers. Just stick with them or be ready to do a complete reinstall if switching to Nvidia. Yesterday was wasted and I don't appreciate them taking a day out of my wayyy behind schedule life. BTW, the beach house has never seen Nvidia cards or drivers pull such shenanigans. No wonder AMD is losing its market share at the speed of light.
You are most welcome to disagree or agree. Use the comments. If anyone knows of a 'fix' for this problem please share with us.
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