Hello Everyone,
I am trying to troubleshoot a few problems with my desktop PC. I was getting some weird FPS drops and graphical glitches with my ATI Radeon 4870 GPU. Now I know this is an older card, but I felt as if it was acting strangely.
I have a NVIDIA Geforce 9600gt card that I salvaged from another computer that had a faulty motherboard. I decided to try it so see if the glitches would go away. I know that the 4870 is a better card, but I wanted to troubleshoot it.
Anyways, when I first connected the new card it booted up fine. I removed all of the Catalyst Control Panel drivers and used Driver Sweeper to try and remove anything left over before I switched the cards.
I downloaded the latest Nvidia Driver and installed that. It seemed to have no problems, but when I rebooted my monitor could not detect any signal from the video card. I couldn't figure out what to do, so I plugged in a VGA cable to my integrated motherboard GPU to get an image. It worked, but now the Nvidia Card won't even show up in device manager. I am wondering if there is a conflict because it is an ATI integrated card. I tried to make the BIOS use the dedicated card only, but the option was greyed out. I suspect this was because I was using the integrated card to even be able to see the BIOS.
Any suggestions? Or am I going to have to put my original card back in and hope for the best?
I am trying to troubleshoot a few problems with my desktop PC. I was getting some weird FPS drops and graphical glitches with my ATI Radeon 4870 GPU. Now I know this is an older card, but I felt as if it was acting strangely.
I have a NVIDIA Geforce 9600gt card that I salvaged from another computer that had a faulty motherboard. I decided to try it so see if the glitches would go away. I know that the 4870 is a better card, but I wanted to troubleshoot it.
Anyways, when I first connected the new card it booted up fine. I removed all of the Catalyst Control Panel drivers and used Driver Sweeper to try and remove anything left over before I switched the cards.
I downloaded the latest Nvidia Driver and installed that. It seemed to have no problems, but when I rebooted my monitor could not detect any signal from the video card. I couldn't figure out what to do, so I plugged in a VGA cable to my integrated motherboard GPU to get an image. It worked, but now the Nvidia Card won't even show up in device manager. I am wondering if there is a conflict because it is an ATI integrated card. I tried to make the BIOS use the dedicated card only, but the option was greyed out. I suspect this was because I was using the integrated card to even be able to see the BIOS.
Any suggestions? Or am I going to have to put my original card back in and hope for the best?