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Graphics Card Problem
tightbarsteward
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A guy at work gave me a Radeon 9200 128MB Graphics Card which he installed in an old MAC. I hastely set about stickng in my PC despite never installing one before & now I wish I hadn't.
Insterted card in spare PCI slot. Downloaded & installed drivers & could see card in Device Manager but it said it could not start it.
My current default graphics card is an Nvidia GPU built into my mother board.
I booted into the BIOS & changed the Graphics Card from one setting (which I cannot remeber what!) to the 'On Board' option which I assumed would change the Graphics card from the built in one to the one I had inserted.
But now when it boots nothing comes up on the screen when it is plugged into either VGA port. !!!!!!. Any advice / help much appreciated.
Insterted card in spare PCI slot. Downloaded & installed drivers & could see card in Device Manager but it said it could not start it.
My current default graphics card is an Nvidia GPU built into my mother board.
I booted into the BIOS & changed the Graphics Card from one setting (which I cannot remeber what!) to the 'On Board' option which I assumed would change the Graphics card from the built in one to the one I had inserted.
But now when it boots nothing comes up on the screen when it is plugged into either VGA port. !!!!!!. Any advice / help much appreciated.
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For the immediate problem, remove the BIOS battery for a while, or if the mobo has a link labelled "Clr CMOS" or similar, short across it briefly. This should set the BIOS settings back to the default on-board graphics, though you will of course lose any other BIOS setting changes that you might have made previously.0
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a 9200 pci card probably isn't going to do anything more than your onboard graphics will so remove it and as fwor says reset the bios0
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Cheers for that people. Problem solved.Blacksheep1979 wrote: »a 9200 pci card probably isn't going to do anything more than your onboard graphics will so remove it and as fwor says reset the bios
Cannot remember off the top of my head but my built in graphics card is either 32MB or 64MB whereas the Radeon is 128MB. Are you sure it wouldn't make a difference?0 -
It depends on how old your PC is and what the onboard graphics are. If you changed the BIOS to the onboard option I would have expected that to use the onboard graphics not the card. Do you have an sort of manual for you motherboard? That should tell you what you need to do.It's my problem, it's my problem
If I feel the need to hide
And it's my problem if I have no friends
And feel I want to die0 -
you really need to know the full spec of the onboard graphics before you can make a judgement on the new radeon 9200.Get some gorm.0
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probably won't make much difference - you aren't going to be playing games either way0
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aye probably correct in that.
heres a simple comparison chart.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/06/best_graphics_card/page6.htmlGet some gorm.0
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