It was fine since being installed about a year ago, and then when I had to reinstall the OS, it isn't working since, which is why I thought maybe it was a setting or a WINDOWS issue or something.

Thanks! Ren920In looking at the ATI Radeon trouble shooting site, it tells me to go into device manager and disable the onboard Intel and then install the graphics card. Since it is already installed and the DRIVERS are downloaded, would I just enable it? And, if I TRY that and it doesnt work, and the Intel is disabled, how do I then see my monitor to fix anything?

Sorry to sound stupid, but I kind of am where this is concerned.
Thank you
Ren920I would un-install the drivers/software for the vid card/
Then power down remove all power sources and physically remove the card.
Hook up the monitor to the onboard vid and restart. Do a few more re-boots.
Then re-install the card and after re-booting point it to the appropiate drivers and you should be good to go.Thank you so much, I'm going to try it!
Ren 920OK, here is the result.

I unintalled all the drivers for the video card and physically removed the card form the machine. I connected the monitor to the onboard video and rebooted several times.

I physically reinstalled the card, and then booted up. It did recognize the new HARDWARE, and then I installed the drivers. It said i had to restart to be able to use the program, and when i did, I saw the Dell setup screen and the windows loading, but then I got a black screen. I know I am up because I hear the windows chime and my partner sitting right beside me sees me automatilcally log in to yahoo, etc.

Does this mean

a) the card is not pointed at the driver? ( I did not use the wizard to find the driver file, it would not let me choose the folder, so I just opened it and HIT "install.")
b) the driver is not correct (I got it from the Radeon ATI site for this particular card
or c) my graphics card is bad? (I did get a desktop while the monitor was plugged in to the card port.)

Thanks once again,
Ren920

Do you have the original driver CD that shipped with the card ? ?
If so i would install that one.
To test the card to see if it has failed swap it into another machine...No, I dont have the original CD.

I will try it in another machine.

Thank you.
Ren920