Drivers operating in erratic way

[John11668]

Hi Andrew
I am in touch with Balazs via the CNCdrive page and he tells me the software is not recognising a video card which is adequate for the software ,
Unfortunately it is a Dell machine , and the Video card is integral on the motherboard .
In such circumstances I am not sure whether I can add a better video card into one of the card slots and let it find its own driver , or whether I am stuck with what is there .

[dazp1976]

Hi Andrew
I am in touch with Balazs via the CNCdrive page and he tells me the software is not recognising a video card which is adequate for the software ,
Unfortunately it is a Dell machine , and the Video card is integral on the motherboard .
In such circumstances I am not sure whether I can add a better video card into one of the card slots and let it find its own driver , or whether I am stuck with what is there .

Laptop or desktop?
Most laptops can't have one added.
Most desktops can.
My Dell desktop is a 780 and has a PCI express port. I added a Radeon 7470 to it (low profile).
Have a look at the spec of your machine to see if it mentions internal PCI ports.

[John11668]

Desk top Daz. Del optiplex 380 upgraded to win 8.1. The Dell help page doesn't help much.
Looks to have three empty card slots at the base of the motherboard.
Will one of those accomodate a graphics card,?, Which one ? , and what is a decent card to get ?
Will it be plug and play or will it need configured

[dazp1976]

Desk top Daz. Del optiplex 380 upgraded to win 8.1. The Dell help page doesn't help much.
Looks to have three empty card slots at the base of the motherboard.
Will one of those accomodate a graphics card,?, Which one ? , and what is a decent card to get ?
Will it be plug and play or will it need configured

I'm not familiar with Win 8.1 (wasn't around for very long though, hmmmm).

Checked my optiplex 780 earlier. Just to prove a point:
Has a 64bit processor, Core 2 duo E7500, 2.95ghz.
DDR3 ram, 4gb.
Radeon 7470 upgrade.
Running WinXP, Mach3 through parallel port.
Faultless.

Is this the motherboard below?
If so the black slot 3rd from left after the 2 white ones is a PCI express x16 graphics slot.
As suggested, try updating existing driver for on board chip first.
If still no good then my 7470 works great so anything around those spec should be good enough.
(I'd go for a 2gb DDR5 if you do some 3D type cutting with long code) you don't need spend too much.

380 board?


Radeon 7470
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-spec...-7470-oem.c299
Cost me £15 at the time.

[John11668]

Do you think this one would be up to the job
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-AMD-...53.m1438.l2649