Solve : New Graphics Card, No Picture?

1.	Solve : New Graphics Card, No Picture?
Answer» I am trying to install an XFX GeForce 9500 GT card [this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150322]. About two months AGO, my old graphics card blew two capacitors, and I just received the new one. However, I can't seem to get any picture out of it. I'm currently using onboard graphics, and I just can't get the computer to recognize the new card. It plugs into the PCI slot fine, and when the computer is on the card's fan runs and windows starts up fine (I can hear the tones, etc), but the monitor isn't getting any input. I've uninstalled the drivers for the onboard card before installing the PCI card, tried switching the BIOS around, all to no avail. Any other tricks for getting these things to work?Have you gone to the nVidia website to download the most recent drivers for that card? Quote from: t_blake07 on January 23, 2010, 03:13:18 PM Have you gone to the nVidia website to download the most recent drivers for that card? He has no video. And the native drivers should work with or without the Nvidia drivers.I've got video, but only if the card isn't installed. If the card is in, no video. If video, no card. Quote from: Allan on January 23, 2010, 03:16:35 PM He has no video. And the native drivers should work with or without the Nvidia drivers. "Should" is the keyword. He said he is currently using the onboard graphics. Any time I install a new GPU, the first thing I do is download the newest driver for it. Then I install the card. Then I install the driver. Then I go into bios and set the new card as the primary. (If it doesn't do that automatically). Making sure the drivers are up to date should be the first thing he does. It's fast, easy, and has to be done eventually.He has no video when the card is installedDo you know what could have caused the last card to fail? I know you said it blew 2 capacitors, but would you happen to know what could have caused that? (Just an old card? Overclocking?) It could be possible that not only the old card failed, but maybe your PCI slot has gone bad too. Or maybe the card itself is DOA?I have a disc, and when I try to RUN the software on that I get an error message that says the nvidia setup program can't find any drivers compatible with current hardware.You cannot install the driver unless the card is installed.The last card blew because it was overclock, I'm pretty sure. It was factory OCed, and there are a bunch of complaints of capacitors blowing on that same model on various forums. However, there's some other weird stuff. For about a week after the card blew, the computer couldn't get through POST, even with the card removed. It kept saying there was a graphics card error, even though none was installed. After leaving it alone for a while, it started up again and WORKED fine for about a month. Last week I installed a new PSU, which worked fine, but then a few days later I tried to install a PCI fan, and as soon as the computer started the fan went into crazy overdrive and after that the computer again couldn't get through POST for about two days. Now it's working fine again, except that it won't recognize that graphics card.Also, not sure if this makes a difference, but my onboard card has two entries in device manager. The only difference I can see is that under location the first says "PCI BUS 0, device 2, function 0," while the second says PCI bus 0, device 2, function 1." Quote from: Allan on January 23, 2010, 03:36:50 PM You cannot install the driver unless the card is installed. I realize that. I'm guessing there's a problem somewhere else. Just trying to figure out what it is.Maybe the problem is that he uninstalled the onboard video drivers? I've never had to do that in order to install a new GPU. I still think it has something to do with the PCI slot itself. Have you gone back into your bios and set the onboard as the primary?Since every set of instructions online and in the manual advises uninstalling the onboard drivers, I doubt that's the issue. Anyways, they always reinstall perfectly after the card doesn't work and I take it out. I've gone into BIOS and switched to make the onboard primary and to make the add-in primary. Neither way works.You cannot uninstall native drivers from the OS - what he did was fine. It APPEARS to me the card is simply not compatible with the system for some reason, but I'm not a hardware expert - so I'd wait until some of the more knowledgeable hw guys are online.

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I am trying to install an XFX GeForce 9500 GT card [this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150322]. About two months AGO, my old graphics card blew two capacitors, and I just received the new one. However, I can't seem to get any picture out of it. I'm currently using onboard graphics, and I just can't get the computer to recognize the new card. It plugs into the PCI slot fine, and when the computer is on the card's fan runs and windows starts up fine (I can hear the tones, etc), but the monitor isn't getting any input. I've uninstalled the drivers for the onboard card before installing the PCI card, tried switching the BIOS around, all to no avail. Any other tricks for getting these things to work?Have you gone to the nVidia website to download the most recent drivers for that card? Quote from: t_blake07 on January 23, 2010, 03:13:18 PM

Have you gone to the nVidia website to download the most recent drivers for that card?

He has no video. And the native drivers should work with or without the Nvidia drivers.I've got video, but only if the card isn't installed. If the card is in, no video. If video, no card. Quote from: Allan on January 23, 2010, 03:16:35 PM

He has no video. And the native drivers should work with or without the Nvidia drivers.

"Should" is the keyword. He said he is currently using the onboard graphics. Any time I install a new GPU, the first thing I do is download the newest driver for it. Then I install the card. Then I install the driver. Then I go into bios and set the new card as the primary. (If it doesn't do that automatically). Making sure the drivers are up to date should be the first thing he does. It's fast, easy, and has to be done eventually.He has no video when the card is installedDo you know what could have caused the last card to fail? I know you said it blew 2 capacitors, but would you happen to know what could have caused that? (Just an old card? Overclocking?) It could be possible that not only the old card failed, but maybe your PCI slot has gone bad too. Or maybe the card itself is DOA?I have a disc, and when I try to RUN the software on that I get an error message that says the nvidia setup program can't find any drivers compatible with current hardware.You cannot install the driver unless the card is installed.The last card blew because it was overclock, I'm pretty sure. It was factory OCed, and there are a bunch of complaints of capacitors blowing on that same model on various forums. However, there's some other weird stuff. For about a week after the card blew, the computer couldn't get through POST, even with the card removed. It kept saying there was a graphics card error, even though none was installed. After leaving it alone for a while, it started up again and WORKED fine for about a month. Last week I installed a new PSU, which worked fine, but then a few days later I tried to install a PCI fan, and as soon as the computer started the fan went into crazy overdrive and after that the computer again couldn't get through POST for about two days. Now it's working fine again, except that it won't recognize that graphics card.Also, not sure if this makes a difference, but my onboard card has two entries in device manager. The only difference I can see is that under location the first says "PCI BUS 0, device 2, function 0," while the second says PCI bus 0, device 2, function 1." Quote from: Allan on January 23, 2010, 03:36:50 PM

You cannot install the driver unless the card is installed.

I realize that. I'm guessing there's a problem somewhere else. Just trying to figure out what it is.Maybe the problem is that he uninstalled the onboard video drivers? I've never had to do that in order to install a new GPU. I still think it has something to do with the PCI slot itself. Have you gone back into your bios and set the onboard as the primary?Since every set of instructions online and in the manual advises uninstalling the onboard drivers, I doubt that's the issue. Anyways, they always reinstall perfectly after the card doesn't work and I take it out. I've gone into BIOS and switched to make the onboard primary and to make the add-in primary. Neither way works.You cannot uninstall native drivers from the OS - what he did was fine. It APPEARS to me the card is simply not compatible with the system for some reason, but I'm not a hardware expert - so I'd wait until some of the more knowledgeable hw guys are online.

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