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Tru2Chevy · 03-22-2006, 11:59 AM

Either way it's gonna be a pain. You can physically solder the AGP slot onto the board, but it has to be done perfectly or you can kill the entire board. You would prolly have to get a BIOS chip from the version of that motherboard that came with AGP support, and then install it and flash it to the latest version.

Other option would be to pick up a cheap motherboard with AGP, and use that. Only problem with that is, your current Windows setup might not accept the new board, and you may have to reinstall Windows over top of itself to get the system to run afterwards. This won't cause you to lose any data, you'll just have to update some preferences, as not all of them are retained.

That card looks pretty good, even though I'm partial to Nvidia's chipsets. Personally, I would just swap to another board. I don't have any P4/Celeron boards laying around, otherwise I would sell one to you cheap.

- Justin

03-22-2006, 11:59 AM	#7
Tru2Chevy Co-Founder / Site Admin Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ewing, NJ Posts: 22,476 iTrader: (8) Social Networks:	Either way it's gonna be a pain. You can physically solder the AGP slot onto the board, but it has to be done perfectly or you can kill the entire board. You would prolly have to get a BIOS chip from the version of that motherboard that came with AGP support, and then install it and flash it to the latest version. Other option would be to pick up a cheap motherboard with AGP, and use that. Only problem with that is, your current Windows setup might not accept the new board, and you may have to reinstall Windows over top of itself to get the system to run afterwards. This won't cause you to lose any data, you'll just have to update some preferences, as not all of them are retained. That card looks pretty good, even though I'm partial to Nvidia's chipsets. Personally, I would just swap to another board. I don't have any P4/Celeron boards laying around, otherwise I would sell one to you cheap. - Justin __________________ 1999 Camry - Beigemobile DD 2002 Suburban - Wife's DD 2004 Grand Cherokee - Not running / Project / Selling?