Newly Choppy Video

[rickandrachael]

I have been running Sage v4.0 on a Dimension 2400 (Celeron 2.20 ghz, 1gb ram, 120gb HD, SoundBlaster, PVR-150) and LOVING every minute of it. The only thing I hadn't done was upgrade the video from the integrated board to a dedicated card, because of the limitations of the board itself (no AGP). So I buckled last weekend and bought the PNY Verto 128mb FX5500 card, and got it in. I had been using the PVR-150 in the first slot, but assumed the video card should have it, so I moved it to the second slot, and the video card went in slot 1. Now when I watch anything, (TV, DVD, Sage recording) I get a slight distortion in the video playback, in the form of a jumpiness, sometimes more pixelated than other times. I'm new to the forums, but not to hardware, so I'm hoping someone will have a nugget of hope for me. I have already tried various combos of the decoders and tweaked the card settings, but likely still have some road to travel before this is through.

I suppose my question is this: is it possible, however unlikely, that integrated video (in some cases) can work better than a dedicated card? The idea of that simply blows my mind, but if anyone's got an opinion, I'd love to hear it... and if I'm crazy, then which settings might work the best for this anemic motherboard?

Thanks in advance...

[rickandrachael]

Well, for anyone who may be interested, after upgrading the BIOS, and trying several different configurations for the video, it appears that the mobo for that Dimension just doesn't have the bandwidth to support both the capture card and the video card togther. I ended up removing it completely, and going back to the onboard video, as it works very well on its own...