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DVA9193
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on November 14 2010
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January 22 2012 14:00 ET by Joel Robinson
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Ok guys, sorry to such a bother about this, I do feel blessed to have such a place to go to have readily available help though...Thank You all
1. Got the video card in yesterday, in the mail I mean, its a Nvidea 550Ti superclocked (?) 1024MB GDDR5/ anywho what are the steps to changing it? for instance I watched a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihVEGWrk5E4 / the question is do I 1. put in the new video card and download the new driver before doing this 2. do this first, operate in safe mode then install the new stuff...etc?
2. Secondly...the power supply is in but due to problems in another post, I don't have the disk drive available for now (which means, I can't play my new QW757) but also means, I can't use the drive for the driver disk and will have to download it off the internet(perhaps save it to my desktop for now and follow ya'lls advice for question 1.) Is that a viable option?
Joel RobinsonFirst Officer, B757-200
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DVA7016
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on February 14 2009
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"I5 2500K - 560GTX - 8GB Ripjaw"
Essex GB
385 legs, 1,090.6 hours
384 legs,
1,089.6 hours ACARS
1,821 legs, 4,442.9 hours total
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January 22 2012 14:49 ET by Alan Barber
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Joel -
1, Download the new drivers and save them so you can get at them but don't install
2. Uninstall old drivers, run a driver cleaner to make sure - reboot
3. PC should restart in VGA 800 x 600 - run cleaner again just to check
4. Turn pc off and perform the necessary surgery!!
5. Turn back on check all ok, you'll be in 800x600 again - install new drivers
6. Restart
That's how I do it anyway!!
Alan BarberSenior Captain, B767-300
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DVA7016
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on February 14 2009
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
"I5 2500K - 560GTX - 8GB Ripjaw"
Essex GB
385 legs, 1,090.6 hours
384 legs,
1,089.6 hours ACARS
1,821 legs, 4,442.9 hours total
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Posted onPost created on
January 22 2012 14:50 ET by Alan Barber
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Ooops - heres a driver cleaner http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/
Alan BarberSenior Captain, B767-300
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DVA9193
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on November 14 2010
50 State Club
Century Club
Western United States
144 legs, 268.9 hours
133 legs,
244.7 hours ACARS
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January 22 2012 15:08 ET by Joel Robinson
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Thanks for the fast reply. I'm going to fly KMKE to KATL with the old video card then, the same with the new and post screen shots showing the difference. If power cable comes soon, where I can use my disk drive I'll include the QW757 pics vs. the fleet 757 as well. 
Joel RobinsonFirst Officer, B757-200
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DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300
Joined on November 17 2007
Western United States
31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs,
18.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 22 2012 16:02 ET by Louis Vanbelkum
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| separate power cable for your disk drive ?
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DVA9193
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on November 14 2010
50 State Club
Century Club
Western United States
144 legs, 268.9 hours
133 legs,
244.7 hours ACARS
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January 22 2012 19:06 ET by Joel Robinson
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Louis Vanbelkum wrote:
separate power cable for your disk drive ?
The way they spliced them, I dont think it will reach all the over to the disk drive
Joel RobinsonFirst Officer, B757-200
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DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300
Joined on November 17 2007
Western United States
31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs,
18.7 hours ACARS
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January 22 2012 19:12 ET by Louis Vanbelkum
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ouch that sucks, when buying a psu always check on that stuff i was lucky when i bought this psu that i was reading the reviews on another and saw people were having problems so i bought the one i have now and it worked 
gl
I have the superclocked evga 560 2 gig and its great i am sure the 550 ti is almost as fast definitely no gpu bottleneck via fsx
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DVA9193
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on November 14 2010
50 State Club
Century Club
Western United States
144 legs, 268.9 hours
133 legs,
244.7 hours ACARS
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January 22 2012 20:10 ET by Joel Robinson
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Yeah, I found that out the hard way..BTW the PSU I bought can be viewed here http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1389575 notice in the second pic from the left how there is a black rubber piece on the SATA plug that does not facilitate a good split.
Still have no idea what superclocked means though on the 550Ti/ mines a 1 gig
Joel RobinsonFirst Officer, B757-200
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DVA5255
First Officer, A330-300
Joined on November 17 2007
Western United States
31 legs, 54.8 hours
15 legs,
18.7 hours ACARS
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January 22 2012 20:31 ET by Louis Vanbelkum
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thing of your graphics cards like the graphic version of a cpu it can overclock kind of like a cpu
superclocked means the "gpu" or the cpu inside of the gpu is basically overclocked a little bit
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DVA9193
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on November 14 2010
50 State Club
Century Club
Western United States
144 legs, 268.9 hours
133 legs,
244.7 hours ACARS
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January 24 2012 16:43 ET by Joel Robinson
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Here is the difference between the ATI Radeon 512Mb and the Nvidea 550Ti 1GB
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75104205@N07/6756921967/in/photostream
Joel RobinsonFirst Officer, B757-200
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DVA9193
First Officer, B757-200
Joined on November 14 2010
50 State Club
Century Club
Western United States
144 legs, 268.9 hours
133 legs,
244.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
January 24 2012 16:46 ET by Joel Robinson
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not sure how to post where the pic shows up automatically 
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