Elephantinc there is no how if your card does not support hardware rendering then you can't use it, you can try the hardware render buffer as Gster suggested by going to Window at the top of the UI and then under Rendering Editors select Hardware Render Buffer .If this does not work for you then you will have to use either of the two workarounds we have suggested to use the software renderer, use another workaround ,if you have Maya 2008 use Mental Ray to render them or buy a new Graphics card.
Sorry but thats the reality of it.