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Offlinekaitlin
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video card help
    #8979419 - 09/24/08 04:16 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

So i bought a geforce 8800 gt yesterday and a new 550 watt power supply for my computer. I installed everything myself, which I have never done before but it seemed self explanatory. In the manual it says to plug my monitor into the graphics card, not the old monitor plug on my computer. When i plug it into the graphics card, my screen is just black, but if I plug it into the old computer slot it works fine. From what I understand it has to be plugged into the video card. Also I installed the video card drivers and everything else seems to be working fine. Did I miss something?

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Re: video card help [Re: kaitlin]
    #8979505 - 09/24/08 04:31 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Your computer should detect which VGA port to use when it boots up. In theory, having your monitor cable plugged in to your geforce's VGA port when you turn your computer on should be enough to make it active, but if not, you may need to go into BIOS and look for a setting that switches between your onboard video and your geforce card (ie, the PCI-X or AGP slot).


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Re: video card help [Re: kaitlin]
    #8979567 - 09/24/08 04:39 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Yeah, I had a similar problem with my onboard sound vs my sound card.

I went into my BIOS and disabled my onboard sound.

So you probably need to disable your onboard gpu I would guess.

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Re: video card help [Re: kaitlin]
    #8979885 - 09/24/08 05:43 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

as others have said, boot into BIOS, disable onboard video, save and exit, you may have to hard shut down afterwards, as the screen may go black, or you could try just moving it after with it on.  If moving it doesn't work, just shut it down, move cable to graphics card, then boot up, shoudl be good to go.

peace

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Re: video card help [Re: kaitlin]
    #8980253 - 09/24/08 06:58 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Very good advice above.  Curious what model/manufacturer motherboard you have?  You really shouldn't have to mess with BIOS, but I suspect that is the problem, and the fix.

Did you hook up the extra power line that plugs into the video card?


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Re: video card help [Re: kaitlin]
    #8980777 - 09/24/08 08:29 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

In 2008, retro is cool!  Even with PC's!
Look for the onboard VGA jumper.


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Re: video card help [Re: kaitlin]
    #8987207 - 09/25/08 10:36 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

check for a bios setting that says "Init display first"

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