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I installed this old Geforce card in one of the PCI slots. Start PC and Windows XP starts to load, then monitor goes black. I have to plug monitor back into the onboard graphics. Whats the problem?
 
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I checked Bios, it indicated that all PCI slots were enabled. It doesn't indicate that a PCIE slot is available.
This graphics board is PCI only according to the pic in the manual.
As I stated originally, when the monitor is plugged into the GeForce board, I can see Win XP loading for about 5 seconds then it reverts back to the onboard graphics.
 
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I just realised that graphic card is not compatible with your computer. Your gx620 uses ddr2 sdram and the fx5200 uses ddr memory. Hence they are not compatible. You need at least an agp 8x hd4670 for that computer.
 
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The type of memory on the graphics card is irrelevant. What's happening is Windows XP is picking up the integrated graphics as the primary display, and it will automatically fall back to that display adapter, even if your monitor is plugged into your graphics card. You have to go into your BIOS, and set the primary display adapter or "Primary Video" to either PCI or AGP depending on what type of graphics card you have. The user manual indicates that this option should be under "Video" somewhere in your BIOS.
 
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The Bios only gives 2 options for Primary. "Auto" and "something/PEG". "Auto" is supposed to select the added graphics card automatically. I forgot exactly how the other option works, but I've tried it and it didn't work either.
 
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I found the integrated graphics controller listed twice in the Device Manager. If I disable it, and the add-on card doesn't work properly, how can I re-enable?
 
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As you can see, I'm not familiar with this stuff. If I disable the integrated, and the add-on card doesn't work, how will I be able to see the DM to reset the integrated graphics?
 
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This is PCI card, not PCIE as it was correctly stated above. PCIE has nothing to do here!

Unfortunately Dell motherboards had been setup differently from the others - if PCIE is exists on motherboard, video card will work only from PCIE, not PCI! This is Dell.... Sorry. Nothing you can do here, at least nothing to my knowledge.
I seen similar problem before with another Dell model, thai where I learned about this thing.

 
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Thanks for all of your replys.
 
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