Flickering display

[Jon_Hildrum]

More likely to be the monitor than the video card.

Check to see if there is something that may cause interference in vicinity
of the monitor like a fluorescent light.

Typical, you can disable onboard video in BIOS
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"steve" > wrote in message
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> Hi,
> Helping out a friend running an older Dell (dont' know model #) and
> Win98. The screen flickers badly, and only stops flickering after the
> computer is warmed up (?). I am thinking of putting in a cheap video
> card to fix it.
>
> Question: The current video circuit is on motherboard, can you just
> put in a video card, and if so, how to switch to it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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[steve]

Hi,
Helping out a friend running an older Dell (dont’ know model #) and
Win98. The screen flickers badly, and only stops flickering after the
computer is warmed up (?). I am thinking of putting in a cheap video
card to fix it.

Question: The current video circuit is on motherboard, can you just
put in a video card, and if so, how to switch to it?

Thanks in advance.

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[AlmostBob]

Its more likely to be the monitor than the card,

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"steve" > wrote in message
news:3_1151880_aa7c4d742836a6530be7166b5e019bfa@wi ndowsforumz.com...
> Hi,
> Helping out a friend running an older Dell (dont' know model #) and
> Win98. The screen flickers badly, and only stops flickering after the
> computer is warmed up (?). I am thinking of putting in a cheap video
> card to fix it.
>
> Question: The current video circuit is on motherboard, can you just
> put in a video card, and if so, how to switch to it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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request
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[steve]

"AlmostBob" wrote:
>Its more likely to be the monitor than the card,
>

hmmm... good point. I never checked the monitor to see how it behaves.
I will change monitors and check.