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Madbones
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10 Jul 2012, 12:01 pm

Hello!
My family wanted me to set them up a media centre PC. So I grabbed my bros old Gaming PC hand me down and got Mythbuntu working on it swell. Only thing now is, my family says its too loud and my mom says it would consume too much power :roll: so I need to downgrade the GPU in it (GTS 250 is what is currently in it) to a 8600GT 1GB. What do I need to do before doing the downgrade? Disable the GPU drivers first I assume?
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10 Jul 2012, 12:16 pm

Just put the board in. The existing drivers won't load and you will be kicked back to VESA. Any other outcome would be a driver bug, now wouldn't it?



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10 Jul 2012, 1:27 pm

MyFutureSelfnMe wrote:
Just put the board in. The existing drivers won't load and you will be kicked back to VESA. Any other outcome would be a driver bug, now wouldn't it?

Exactly what I thought!
Downgrade here we come! I just thought I would check just in case as I am not up to making my self extra work at the moment :lol:


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10 Jul 2012, 8:41 pm

Madbones wrote:
What do I need to do before doing the downgrade? Disable the GPU drivers first I assume?
Nothing except plug the different card in. They're both NVidia chipsets so the existing driver will just carry on working.

You might like to double-check you're using a bog standard universal NVidia driver with:
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version which will give a sensible answer if you are or an error message if you're not.
It's probably already present: most disros have it/will grab it automatically on detecting the video chipset.


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