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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4373781" data-attributes="member: 41321">It's an AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ 2.0 GHz.  I bought it four or five years ago as a top-of-the-line barebones system and plugged in the video card I had in the machine before it (since, at that point, the video card was still fairly decent).  I have 2 GB of RAM, and the machine itself is not that bad.  It just seems that most of the technology in it has reached the point where if I want to upgrade further I need a new motherboard, which means I basically need a new PC.I've done research online and found some people who got Vista to run on a GeForce4, but none of their tricks have really worked for me.  They've basically said that XP drivers often work in Vista (which I find weird, but hey, whatever works).  I've tried drivers that install, but none of them have recognized my second monitor or have been able to correctly identify the resolutions that my main monitor is capable of.I uninstalled the card from Device Manager and reinstalled it, I've rolled back the driver in Device Manager, and I've pulled out the CD that came with my computer and put all my drivers back to the version that came with the computer (stupid thing can only do all of them at once, which means I'll have to fix my sound card AGAIN at some point... I hope I saved those drivers so I don't have to search again).  Neither of those worked.  I feel like a newer driver probably won't help because I KNOW the driver on the CD works, and that CD has helped me recover from driver issues before.  I'll try completely yanking/disabling the card this weekend, and maybe I'll go for drivers from their website, too, but I don't have high hopes for those.Eh, if I'm going to buy a new video card I'll just go with a whole new computer.  Like I said earlier, most of the pieces in my PC are at the point where the technology used has begun to fall by the wayside.  Instead of upgrading to the limits of my PC's technology I'd rather get a new machine that has more chance of being upgraded in the future.I can afford a new machine, I was just hoping I'd get some more life out of this one.  Honestly, at this point I'm kinda hoping that I can't get my video card or ethernet card working again so I have an excuse to buy a new one.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel    :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" />  But I am trying to save money so Awayfarer and I can buy a house someday, so I'm gonna make every reasonable effort to get one or both working before I start shopping.My computer can handle it, aside from the video card.  It's a very nice old computer, which is another reason I don't want to buy a new one, but like I said above, I'm getting tired by being thwarted by older-style technologies.  I wanna play Oblivion and Spore, damnit. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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