graphic card not activated at startup

GanjiGhost

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Mar 23, 2014
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Hi

I am trying to repair the laptop of the girl next door.
The problem is that its showing no reaction on the screen.
So i hooked it up on a seperate monitor trough vga.
Now its showing some strange 4bit colors and takes a standard resolution of 640x480.
I noticed that whenever i start the computer, the graphic card is not activated.
Everytime i go to the settings, activate it and install the drivers.
Then i restart and its back to square 1.

anyone has an idea?

its an old hp laptop running
Geforce go 7600
2gb Ram
250Gb hdd
...

Thanks in regards
 

mcdonh

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Oct 8, 2013
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haha the 'girl next door' eh, anyway have you tried going into the graphics section of the BIOS and making sure the graphics is being sent through the PCI-E Slot instead of some other slot?