Vista upgrade

[whiterose]

Seeing as xp is on its way out in a few years, I have been advised to go to Vista. I have had a few probs with my hdd and a reinstall is on the cards so an upgrade is sensible. Any body have any choices or suggestions for a cost effective video card to satisfy the criteria for vista. i dont need fancy graphics. My mother board has integrated prosavage8 video hardware.can I purchase a suitable card to just plug into the spare channels on the mother board(there are two spare connectors below the modem) and set up a new driver.This should ignore the original video electronics shouldnt it?

 

I dont suppose Vista will run on my present agp graphics will it!

 

Any advice much appreciated as always:D

[RandyL]

Hi whiterose;

 

You might want to run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor and see what it tells you about your system and if it will run Vista. It should tell you some things.

[Match]

Also just to add to Randy's post we would need your system specs

 

PSU

CPU

Motherboard

RAM

 

and to know what Budget you are looking at to advise you properly :)

[whiterose]

XP to Vista upgrade

 

Sorry about that.I was in a bit of a rush and forgot the important bits..:rolleyes:

 

HP pavilion a 110.uk

AMD Athlon(1.67 ghz)

AGP graphics with 32mb of vid ram

...was standard 256 ram but just banged in another 500 so now 760..ish..

40gb hdd but am replacing with 80gb when installing Vista pack.

 

As far asIcan see the only thing I need to ad that I am a bit unsure of is the video card.I expected to just pull out my old one and slot an upgrade card in its place but on this motherboard its integrated.Im taking it that the old one can be driver disabled and the new one after installation can be enabled and it will just take over... in theory.. or am I being a little naive!

 

I had a look at that Vista upgrade info and as far as I can see I have got it pretty much covered.Im just trying to source the video card now.

 

Economy is the key word.Cheap as possible so it does the job and no more.Im not a serious user.Most of my usage is word processing and business work and some private photo printing.If I can get something for 25 quid it,ll do me fine.