Whoah! That really *is* different. Now you’ve got me curious (thanks!) — I am going to check my settings now...
(Hmmmmmmm... I never thought to question it before.)
Gut tells me it’s probably a driver thing (checking drivers)
Well, well, well. (I’m running XP) — I run “Add Hardware” wizard, and after stepping thru it my “Video Controller (VGA Compatible)” and “SM Bus Controller” are both showing as “The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)”
I dunno about the SM Bus Controller, but the Video Controller being “Unknown” is bound to be problematic...
I’m running a Compaq, and because I do not like their default build I de-res’ed it and re-installed XP from the ground up. This tells me that Compaq probably had a driver that is specific to this machine that XP does not know about and cannot find.
I wonder if you are having a similar problem? What does your Control Panel say?
I would have to back over to the new machine, but I installed the drivers that came with the card. It is a new box I built.
An AMD dual core 3.0GHZ with 2 Gig of Ram, 150Gig SATA Hard Disk, CD-Rom writer, and 256MB video card all for $600!
I already had the OS etc