Graphics Card - Tutorial Series

mfreakdout said:

My problem is that , when i insert the graphics card in the PciE slot and connect the monitor cable to the graphics card and turn on the cpu, I dont GEt a Display!

I have updated my bios, i have even tried Disabling the Display adapters in Device manager.

Hi,

Are you migrating from On-Board to External graphics? Is then you may need to do the following...

1. Plug the VGA cable into the On-Board port
2. Access the BIOS (press DEL, F1, F10 or F12 when 1st boot screen appears)
3. (normally) Under Advanced settings find details of GFX
4. Change from Internal to External (PCI-E)

Now plug the cable into the new card and hopefully you should have your image back.

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smarteyeball said:

Tried switching the display type from integrated to PCI-E in the BIOS?

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He is saying go into system start up and go into the bios iformation section

this can be done when booting hitting the delete button on start or what ever f-xxx option they give

Once inside look for chipset and look through the configuration of the gpu and check if it is enabled or disable meaning onboard video or the PCI-e configuration you are looking to achieve

Also if you are only seeing PCI something must be wrong or your board simply doesnt use that kind of bus type but that would make no sense cause you are useing a zotac 240 gt it could be possible that section of your board has burned or failed

download this and post a pic of the results this is the best way we can help you from here

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dowmload this run it get the specs and come back with a screen shot it will be a little easier by the way also it should tell us the mobo model etc