Hi
I had an extremely frustrating event. My old computer died and I was given a Dell Dimension 2100 which is about 10 years old, but it works well but I love games and I wanted to get a 3d graphics card. Well I went on Dell Chat and she told me to get a Radeon 7K 64 MB DDR PCI Graphics Card and me not knowing much about cards, bought it. Well me and my landlord (a computer whiz) spent 4 hours trying to get it to work and it never did. Come to find out the rep at DEll had no idea which card would work because the service tag on my machine is old so they don't have any info they just wanted to make a sale. Luckily, I can get a refund on the card and it did not cost much $34.00 at Circuit City. I spoke to another rep and he said that based on the specs, it should have been a card compatible with this
Bus type PCI (version 2.2)
Bus speed 33 MHz
Card connectors supports four three-quarter-length PCI cards
Card connector size 120 pins
Card connector data width (maximum) 32 bits
Here are the rest of the specs
Intel Celeron� processor
1.10 GHz internally and 100 MHz externally
.
L1 cache 32-KB instruction and data cache
L2 cache
Pentium III processor
256-KB Advanced Transfer Cache that resides in the processor's core. The L2 cache runs at the processor's internal clock speed.
Celeron processor
128-KB SRAM
Microprocessor mounting socket 370
System chip set Intel 810e or Intel 810 chip set
Data bus width 64 bits
Address bus width 32 bits
DMA channels two
Interrupt levels 15
System BIOS chip 4 Mb (512 KB)
System clock 100 or 133 MHz (matches external processor speed)
Architecture non-ECC SDRAM 168-pin modules
Memory sockets two; gold contacts
Memory capacities 64, 128, 256, and 512 MB
Minimum memory 64 MB for Microsoft� Windows� 98, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), and Windows 2000; 128 MB for Windows XP
Maximum memory 512 MB
Frequency 100 MHz
Serial (DTE)
9-pin connector; 16550C-compatible
Parallel
25-hole connector (bidirectional)
Video
15-hole connector
PS/2-style keyboard
6-pin mini-DIN connector
PS/2-compatible mouse
6-pin mini-DIN connector
USB
two USB-compliant connectors
Video controller Intel (R) 82810 Graphics Controller (on board video)
DC power supply
Wattage
145 W
Heat dissipation
700 BTU (fully loaded system without monitor)
Voltage (switch selectable on back panel)
90 to 135 V at 60 Hz;
180 to 265 V at 50 Hz;
100 V at 50 to 60 Hz for Japanese systems
Backup battery 3-V CR2032 coin cell
I know this is a lot of info but I am only just learning about computers so I wanted to list everything and also because I am going to ask some more questiions later.
Bottom line, I know it's an old computer but it was free and I don't have the money now for a better rig.
Can anyone suggest a video card, however minimal that will go with this?
Thanks so much.
I had an extremely frustrating event. My old computer died and I was given a Dell Dimension 2100 which is about 10 years old, but it works well but I love games and I wanted to get a 3d graphics card. Well I went on Dell Chat and she told me to get a Radeon 7K 64 MB DDR PCI Graphics Card and me not knowing much about cards, bought it. Well me and my landlord (a computer whiz) spent 4 hours trying to get it to work and it never did. Come to find out the rep at DEll had no idea which card would work because the service tag on my machine is old so they don't have any info they just wanted to make a sale. Luckily, I can get a refund on the card and it did not cost much $34.00 at Circuit City. I spoke to another rep and he said that based on the specs, it should have been a card compatible with this
Bus type PCI (version 2.2)
Bus speed 33 MHz
Card connectors supports four three-quarter-length PCI cards
Card connector size 120 pins
Card connector data width (maximum) 32 bits
Here are the rest of the specs
Intel Celeron� processor
1.10 GHz internally and 100 MHz externally
.
L1 cache 32-KB instruction and data cache
L2 cache
Pentium III processor
256-KB Advanced Transfer Cache that resides in the processor's core. The L2 cache runs at the processor's internal clock speed.
Celeron processor
128-KB SRAM
Microprocessor mounting socket 370
System chip set Intel 810e or Intel 810 chip set
Data bus width 64 bits
Address bus width 32 bits
DMA channels two
Interrupt levels 15
System BIOS chip 4 Mb (512 KB)
System clock 100 or 133 MHz (matches external processor speed)
Architecture non-ECC SDRAM 168-pin modules
Memory sockets two; gold contacts
Memory capacities 64, 128, 256, and 512 MB
Minimum memory 64 MB for Microsoft� Windows� 98, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), and Windows 2000; 128 MB for Windows XP
Maximum memory 512 MB
Frequency 100 MHz
Serial (DTE)
9-pin connector; 16550C-compatible
Parallel
25-hole connector (bidirectional)
Video
15-hole connector
PS/2-style keyboard
6-pin mini-DIN connector
PS/2-compatible mouse
6-pin mini-DIN connector
USB
two USB-compliant connectors
Video controller Intel (R) 82810 Graphics Controller (on board video)
DC power supply
Wattage
145 W
Heat dissipation
700 BTU (fully loaded system without monitor)
Voltage (switch selectable on back panel)
90 to 135 V at 60 Hz;
180 to 265 V at 50 Hz;
100 V at 50 to 60 Hz for Japanese systems
Backup battery 3-V CR2032 coin cell
I know this is a lot of info but I am only just learning about computers so I wanted to list everything and also because I am going to ask some more questiions later.
Bottom line, I know it's an old computer but it was free and I don't have the money now for a better rig.
Can anyone suggest a video card, however minimal that will go with this?
Thanks so much.
