Posted: 1/14/2010 8:31:25 PM EDT
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3 y/o Dell XPS 400. 4GB Ram. Recently installed GEforce 512 mb Video Card and brand new 320 GB Seagate HD. Now, even though the new video card is "in there" nothing is showing up in the device manager. I think I properly uninstalled the old driver from add/remove software and I definately installed the new driver with the disk included with the video card. I did Run: dxdiag and nothing referring to the new video card is listed in there. |
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Is it seated properly? Does it need to be plugged into PSU? When u plug your monitor into the back of the video card does it work? Is there another machine you can test the card on? Yes, I thnk it's seated properly. No, I don't think it needs to be plugged in to a PSU. There are no "extra" wires or plugs or anything. Yes, the monitor works fine. No, no other computer to try it on. |
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well then, thats about as far as my knowledge goes..it appears to be working just not showing up in device manager under display adapters..funny problem..
So when you install the new drivers they installed away, with no errors? the only thing i can think of is maybe your motherboard has on board video and thats overriding the vid card..time to go into bios and look for the enable VGA device |
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couple things. bios properly configured for the new card? was it a nvida driver? (old one) there is a program called the nasty file remover (for removing nvidia drivers)... run that if you can find it. remove your display adapters and reboot... win should detect it. |
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First make sure there's not a BIOS switch. Next, if you're sure the board is seated properly, in the correct type slot, and you're sure there's not a separate power connector (most higher end boards do require a power hookup directly off the power supply), then either your power supply isn't powerful enough to run the board, or the motherboard or OS are screwed. And chances of that is slim. My recommendation? Start over, being careful to read all the installation instructions. If that fails, try a bigger power supply. |
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What was the previous card? when installing did is say anything about un-installing current driver? What did you remove in add/remove software?
What card are you using? 512 geforce is like saying microsoft program. need more information. pcie or agp? start>right click on my computer>manage>device>display drivers>remove if xp Some say to run 3rd party apps like driver cleaner pro but i haven't noticed a difference. |
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I have no idea about the Bios thing. then why are you trying to add parts if you don't know what your doing ? If you don't know how to set stuff up in BIOS, you should read about that 1st before adding parts  Bascially, because I thought it was a simple affair. I had no idea it would be so complex. If I knew it was over my head, I wouldn't have attempted it. Where do you guys all learn your stuff from anyhow? Did you take computer science in college or something? |
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restart computer. when the first black screen flashes up that has lots of technical mumbo jumbo on it (yes that is a technical term mumbo jumbo look it up.) rapidly hit ESC or F8 like a methed up weasel, (or the screen might say "hit "X" to enter BIOS" hit that key.) when in the BIOS, there should be an option to enable PCI video or disable onboard video. either way should work, cause once the onboard video has been disabled the BIOS will start looking at the PCI slots for a video card. read the screen carefully as changes to the BIOS can brick your computer faster then anything if you don't know what you are doing. you should be safe if you only mess with the video settings. if you do really mess something up, there should be a jumper or a switch on the mother board (that's the big board that all other cards and chips and ram and CPU plug into) that will reset the BIOS to the factory settings. or if you don't feel comfortable doing it yourself take it into a shop BUT NOT GEEK SQUAD take it to a REAL SHOP!!!!! |
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Quoted: ESC or F8 do nothing. Goes right to the windows log in screen. It says I can press F2 for Setup or F12 for boot menu. I don't want to take it to a shop. I want to learn this stuff for myself. If I rely on a shop, I'll have the computer in every other week. Hit F2 |
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What model video card are you running now? Is it brand new? Is it AGP or PCI-E (more likely PCI-E)? These are pretty important questions if you just put it in the slot that the other video card was in. Hopefully you figure it out with a minimum of fuss. |
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I have no idea about the Bios thing. then why are you trying to add parts if you don't know what your doing ? If you don't know how to set stuff up in BIOS, you should read about that 1st before adding parts Bascially, because I thought it was a simple affair. I had no idea it would be so complex. If I knew it was over my head, I wouldn't have attempted it. Where do you guys all learn your stuff from anyhow? Did you take computer science in college or something? Google, and lots of fixing PCs for friends and family, and the two years I worked doing PC repair for a law firm, self taught. Get drivers from the cards makers website reinstall and reboot. |
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I have no idea about the Bios thing. then why are you trying to add parts if you don't know what your doing ? If you don't know how to set stuff up in BIOS, you should read about that 1st before adding parts Bascially, because I thought it was a simple affair. I had no idea it would be so complex. If I knew it was over my head, I wouldn't have attempted it. Where do you guys all learn your stuff from anyhow? Did you take computer science in college or something? My advice is on your day off get a bottle of booze and read, rinse and repeat for a couple years. you may not become an expert but you will get the hang of it. having spare pc's and backing up help when "learning" . if you learn it you will be annoyed by by people asking you to fix stuff for free so they don't have to pay 50 bucks to repair simple errors that they can't spend 10 minutes searching for the answer. btw that isn't directed at you. just friends with a need to check out random pron and download anything free. nobody mention delete for entering bios |
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Quoted: Same here. I have not bought a PC (excluding laptops) in 10 years. Built my own. At one point I had 3 plus a laptop.Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I have no idea about the Bios thing. then why are you trying to add parts if you don't know what your doing ? If you don't know how to set stuff up in BIOS, you should read about that 1st before adding parts Bascially, because I thought it was a simple affair. I had no idea it would be so complex. If I knew it was over my head, I wouldn't have attempted it. Where do you guys all learn your stuff from anyhow? Did you take computer science in college or something? Google, and lots of fixing PCs for friends and family, ......., self taught. Get drivers from the cards makers website reinstall and reboot. |