situation with new video card

[mill1rbt2]

i have a pci video card i ordered and its in right now.....the intergrated graphics are enabled to because thats the only graphics that are allowing the moniter picture......but when i plug the moniter plug to the pci video card nothing shows up......i power the comp off and try to plug the moiniters plug or lcd moniters plug into the pci video card then turn it on that way and there is no picture showing on the monitor......i look in the device settings to see whats enable and whats working and looks like this pci hardwares having no problems and the drivers are all working.......there was no exclamation point or anything next to it.....can someone help?

[skoreanime]

Have you enabled your main display as PCI in the BIOS?

[mill1rbt2]

i tried the onboard and the auto option in bios.......with the auto option on and the pci card in there is no picture but usual loading on its way to windows and the desktop....with onboard selected.....the computer starts with the picture but if the plug is removed from the integrated and put into the pci card....carefully trying this.....there still is no picture....the drivers are installed for the pci card and what you said about enbabling my main display as pci in bios....theres either the auto and onboard options or a section with 1mb or 8mb options to load the intergrated graphics....?

[John Aiton]

don't use auto or integrated,

select pci-e?

disable onboard graphics too

[mill1rbt2]

i dont see a pci-e option? on this screen but i know its the bios........you press f2 at startup and then it comes up but there is no pci-e option?

[John Aiton]

Originally Posted by mill1rbt2

i dont see a pci-e option? on this screen but i know its the bios........you press f2 at startup and then it comes up but there is no pci-e option?

wait, are you using an agp card instead?

been years since i seen one lol

[skoreanime]

No, I'm pretty sure he means PCI, not AGP or PCI-E. That thing is an artifact, didn't even know you could find one nowadays. Is it brand new out of original package or refurbished? It could be damaged. And I don't think PCI GPUs required external power inputs, so that's scratched.

[mill1rbt2]

ATI RADEON 7500 128MB PCI VIDEO CARD...gotta figure this out?

[John Aiton]

Originally Posted by mill1rbt2

ATI RADEON 7500 128MB PCI VIDEO CARD...gotta figure this out?

original pci?

sorry, but i don't know how to configure a non agp or pci-e motherboard

[runawayprisoner]

Switch the BIOS to auto... and plug the display into the PCI card instead of the onboard port BEFORE you boot.

[mill1rbt2]

i dont even think that worked runawayprisoner........i think I tried it like idk i'll try again maybe

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tried to start my computer with the monitor plug plugged into the new pci card i have and with the bios setting for video display set to auto.....there was no picture on the screen but the computer was doing its normal stuff like loading and going to windows just no picture on the lcd monitor......when the pci card is plugged in its fan spins it has a fan....this is kinda confusing didn't think it woudl be this hard to get it installed but help please? i might have to disable something

i still can't get my video card installed after doing all the steps...what does the onboard graphics chip or onboard piece on the motherboard look like.....i think i'm gonna have to remove it........my installation cd with the drivers was already used and the drivers are on the comp its the pci video card that needs to be plugged in but with the onboard in there is no picture whether bios is on onboard or auto........there is no disable option in bios.....please help?

[StriderVM]

Well, just to make sure, when you think that computer is behaving normally just no visual on the monitor, just plug out the monitor plug to the onboard, it won't get broken and after plugging it on the onboard and you get visual, then yep, the motherboard is still using the onboard video. Then just figure out where the BIOS settings for using a PCI video card is.

[mill1rbt2]

i dont have BIOS settings for using a pci video card at my BIOS screen after pressing f2 enough...i got to the options under primary video or video display options in bios i can choose auto or onboard or theres a mb section where i can choose 1mb or 8mb for the onboard intergrated graphics...with auto selected i tried alot of times and i had to have the new pci card out of the second of two pci slots in order for the picture to show up on the monitor.......with onboard selected i could have the new pci card in the slot but still had to have the monitor plugged to the onboard graphics and there would be picture with onboard selected also so i could see it............still confused it seems confusing at times i've never installed one myself but i had an idea of what to get please help?