I have a somewhat old but decent computer. I recently loaded Windows 7 on it and it works great. But I noticed I needed a new graphics card. So I bought and nvidia one. on this particular computer the graphics card is on the mother board. I bought a PCI card and installed it and updated the drivers and it recognizes it and says its all good but when I plug the monitor to the port on the PCI card it is blank. I tried disabling the orig card but it is still nothing. I know this card type works cuz i have another computer I have 7 on and updated with the exact model card and it is working fine. Granted this on had the orig card on a PCI and I removed it. Any advice ????
Haven't had a motherboard with on-board graphics, but perhaps you need to disable it (or choose your PCI-X graphics card) through BIOS? Something similar to this, maybe: http://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Onboard/Integrated-Video-On-Your-Computer
Right click on your desktop, go to display properties and make sure it is set up at the #1 display option.
Ok your post is confusing. Are you sure it's a PCI video card or a PCI-e? Are you saying you have 2 PCI video card on that same motherboard? If you do remove the other card and boot it up again. Another thing is that what monitor are you connecting to? Analog(VGA) or DVI(digital)?
thanks tshmal and jeoparde. it was the old bios trick. :grin: up and going. Yes I still have a PCI slot computer. Runs pretty good tho even with windows 7
Ok I missed the part where he's saying there's an onboard videocard. It's not the motherboard. You can buy PCI video cards to place it onto the PCI slots of your motherboard.
I guess the disparity was PCI or PCI-X. Pretty much every motherboard within the last half decade is using PCI-X, not old PCI.
