Using Radeon 6450 card with onboard Radeon 3200

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Galapas

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I am running a Gateway DX-4200 AMD quadcore with 4 gig ram and a Radeon HD 3200 on the Mobo (Vista HP 64 bit). Every time I try to install a Radeon 6450 PCIe card, installation goes fine but after reboot I get "No ATI Radeon Driver Found". I end up with a "generic" driver with few options. I have tried almost evey driver setup from AMD and even one from Dell (the card was bought from Dell). All give the same results or either just crash on bootup.
Ultimately, I was planning to use both cards for dual monitors but can't seem to get a driver to work with the 6450. I also played with changing the "priority" order of the video in the BIOS... choices were:
GFXO-GPP-IGFX-PCI
GPP-GFXO-IGFX-PCI
PCI-GFXO-GPP-IGFX
IGFX-GFXO-GPP-PCI

Any ideas guys?
 
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Your video card should always be in the PCI-E slot closest to the CPU inside of your case. Priority should not affect anything except when it is loaded during the POST process. As for the drivers there is a possibility that the card is defective. Do you have another system to test the GPU with?
 
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Coovargo...
I have only 1 PCIe slot. The Mobo has 1 PCIe, 1 short PCIe (?), and 2 PCI slots.
I have a M-Audio Delta 10/10 Pro Audio card in one of the PCI slots. The Delta 10/10 being PCI is the onl;y reason I stick with this Mobo as PCI slots are now hard to find and I have to have this card for my recording studio.
 
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coovargo

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Fair enough. Do you have a system to verify the GPU is working properly with? Does the PSU have enough power? Even if it's PCI-E slot driven it doesn't mean that the PSU can put out 50W more for it, however the computer would normally not boot at all if this were the issue. Essentially any other computer with a PCI-E slot would do fine. If we can verify the GPU is working we can get to other things like verify the drivers are correct. Then we can verify that you have the latest BIOS for your motherboard. After that there isn't much else to do.
 
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The Radeon 6450 came from my daughter's Dell inspiron. It was working when removed (replaced by better card).
When I install the card, I do get display but in "standard" vga modes from the generic MS vga driver. This happens even after I install AMD/ATI drivers.
So far, I've accumulated (and tried), 9-6, 12-4a hotfix,13-1, 13-9, 13-12, and a driver downloaded from Dell (original vender), R294998.exe
All seem to work during installation except 13-12 which fails on the Catalyst install. Then after reboot I get "No ATi/AMD Driver Found" which I suppose is coming from Catalyst as it starts when Windows starts.
Also, even though my HD 3200 shows in hardware manager, it never shows in the Display properties as an option or alternate and is not accessable.
I have also tried with and without the onboard hd3200 enabled in the BIOS
 
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