Graphic Card help

[Sammie]

Hello,

I've just gone and gotten myself a new graphics car, NVIDIA G-Force FX 5500, i have unplugged my PC and poped it in, plugged everything back in and started it up, this is where the problem comes, it comings up about Windows xP loading, however after that the screen goes dead blank? and nothing happens at all, even after leaving it for 10 minutes.

No power supply came with it and as far as i can tell you don't need one, i took it out and my PC loaded up correctly, any thoughts please?

[Tracker]

I would attempt to do a system repair using the xp install disk and see if that helps any

[fnixws]

First, boot up in safe mode, remove the old hardware from device manager and reboot.

[Sammie]

First, boot up in safe mode, remove the old hardware from device manager and reboot.

I've just attempted to get in using safe mode however it doesn't seem to want to load up, it goes and then stops, it didn't go in after 10 mins. :S

[Decker]

I would attempt to do a system repair using the xp install disk and see if that helps any

I wouldn't :wink2:

Your not telling us much, PC spec would help, include the PSU rating.

[Sammie]

All i have as far as specs is this atm

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5575/s1hj7.png

[Decker]

Not much to go on, is the motherboard AGP x8?

[Sammie]

Indeed it is AGP, not sure about x8. :S

[Decker]

Could be a lot of things, if your old gfx card worked fine it might be the new card is faulty, could be your system just isn't up to it for the new one too though.
Can you get someone to check it works on their system? (make sure it's a reasonably powerfull one though, ie not a Celeron CPU)

[fnixws]

remove the card, boot the PC, remove the card from device manager, shutdown, reinstall new card and try?

Id have thought if it wasnt compatible with the board, it would beep at you on boot, but who knows with the millions of defferent brands and versions out there.

[Sammie]

Could be a lot of things, if your old gfx card worked fine it might be the new card is faulty, could be your system just isn't up to it for the new one too though.
Can you get someone to check it works on their system? (make sure it's a reasonably powerfull one though, ie not a Celeron CPU)

Currently it has an onboard graphics card, hench the upgrade, i took the tower into the PC shop and they suggested that one and said it would be fine, :O

[Sammie]

remove the card, boot the PC, remove the card from device manager, shutdown, reinstall new card and try?

Id have thought if it wasnt compatible with the board, it would beep at you on boot, but who knows with the millions of defferent brands and versions out there.

What would the onboard card be under?

[fnixws]

Its still there under display adapters.
Also, remember to turn of the onboard one from the bios.

When you encounter this black screen, did you try plug the screen back into the onboard card to see if its just forcing use of that?

[Sammie]

Its still there under display adapters.
Also, remember to turn of the onboard one from the bios.

When you encounter this black screen, did you try plug the screen back into the onboard card to see if its just forcing use of that?

I couldn't find the onboard video card under BIOS?

And no i didn't try that, i'm just wondering what the power supply is, Acer aspire SA20.

[Decker]

In BIOS look for first graphics device (probably under advanced settings) and set to AGP.

[fnixws]

Do u know what the bios is Sammie?
I assume your not talking about the littel bios in some device managers under system devices?
We are talking about when you boot the computer.
Most PCs will allow oyu to press del to enter setup.
on some its f1, f2, f9 crtl - alt - s.
But it should tell you as its booting.

[Sammie]

Sorry about lack of repsonces, been busy with school and other things.

Anyways, i've just resolved the issue, saved myself $60 for the PC shop guys to do it, basically what i had to do was press F8 on startup, i then went to enable VGA mode, that loaded windows, i then installed the driver, restarted and it loaded up perfectly.

:D:D:D

[iBrightDev]

you could have removed it, installed the drivers while using the on-board graphics, and then re-installed the card. that probably would have worked, but, glad you got it up.