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iggybaseball
08-20-01, 08:32 AM
What does an oem verzion of a video card mean? Does it not come with a manual and drivers? Or does it just come with a shortened waranty? Plz help!
funnyperson1
08-20-01, 08:59 AM
many oems do not come with warranties or manuals or cds , an oem is probably (unless other wise stated by company) a brwn box with your merchandise inside.....nothing more
Staz
08-20-01, 09:40 AM
Also some OEM card are clocked slower than retail cards

IE: retail Readon 183/183 vs. OEM Readon 166/166

But these cards should overclock right up to where the retail cards are.
iggybaseball
08-20-01, 10:10 AM
Then if they don't give you the drivers how do u install them?
Placid
08-20-01, 10:19 AM
If it dosent come with drivers (it probably will thou) you download them from the mfg's website.
Staz
08-20-01, 10:38 AM
what kind of card is it? You can either go to the card manufaturers web site and download the drivers. Or you can go to the chipmakers website and download reference drivers.

The drivers generally come with a readme. But the basic process is that you unzip the drivers to a folder. Then go into display properties/ advanced/ adapter/ change/ and then change to standard VGA adapter. It gives you a warning that these divers were not meant for this card. Go ahead and change them anyway. Then shut down, remove the old card insert the new card and restart. When the new hardware found wizard ask for drivers tell it to specify a location. Then point it to where the drivers were unzipped to.

If this is going on a new machine you can unzip the files and burn them on a CD. Or you can install standard VGA adapter drivers (this will give you 256 colors) then install winzip and unzip the drivers. then go into the device manager click on display adapters, then the adapter that is there (should be standard VGA adapter) then properties, then drivers, update drivers. And then point it to where you unzipped the drivers to.

I am doing all this from memory so I could be wrong. If the drivers have a readme file, READ IT!!!!. If it doesn't have a readme file check the website where you get the drivers for a readme oe FAQ.