I have a Dell Dimension 2350, which comes with onboard integrated video.  I just bought an EVGA GeForce 6200 256MB DDR2 PCI card that I cannot get installed.  Here are the steps I have taken and their results:

I installed the card in PCI slot 2 (because 1 was taken).  I could not make it display, nor install the drivers.
I moved the card to PCI slot 1.  The first time I booted up afterwards, the new card displayed the BIOS splash. but went dark after that.
Lots of reboots never resulted in displaying video from the new card.

I know that the graphics card works, because it worked one time, but I have not been able to get it to work since.  I have a feeling that it is a problem with the onboard graphics chipset taking over. I cannot disable the onboard graphics, because the bios only gives me the options "onboard" or "auto".  I have browsed lots of other forums looking at other people's problems, and tried most of the suggestions given there, but to no avail. 

Does anyone have any ideas how I can make the BIOS turn the control over to the new card? Or if that is even the issue? Any suggestions are appreciated!


Thanksdid you un-install the previous graphics card drivers and install the new ones prior to installing the graphics card?
try switching back to your old one and doing this chances are it will help.
ive had alot of problems installing graphics card into dell dimension computers before. dell dont make their computers to be self-upgrade friendlyDO NOT install the new driver before the card is installedI had the same problem recently trying to install a nVidia geforce 2mx400 64mb PCI card in a old Dell with on-board video. In device manager I had the yellow ! telling me the device had problems and could not start. I worked on it for a week trying every thing, tried all the PCI slots - downloaded drivers for the card - flashed the motherboard bios to the latest version - disabled on-board video. The new card did start two times for me but no more. I finely came to the conclusion the new card must be BAD. I returned the card , it was TESTED and found to be bad. Received replacement , installed it in PCI slot 1 and it started up and works great. I use duel monitors now. Quote from: jhuns on December 26, 2009, 01:34:38 PM

I cannot disable the onboard graphics, because the bios only gives me the options "onboard" or "auto".

So which setting are you using ("onboard" or "auto")?

did you un-install the previous graphics card drivers and install the new ones prior to installing the graphics card?

DO NOT install the new driver before the card is installed

Is your BIOS version A02?