No display after inserting new graphics card

dale3232

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Afternoon,

hoping someone can help i am upgrading my on-board graphics card to a dedicated graphics its a sapphire HD5450 (Im on a budget).

I disable Integrated card through device manager and bios plug new card in attach the monitor via VGA port go to switch machine on but no display at all to my monitor not even a flicker.

As i connect my monitor to the gpu it say not connected im at a loss as to what to do next can only use my computer again once i take the card out and reconnect monitor to motherboard.

I have tried everything i can find: Bought another HD5450 XFX... Re-seating the RAM....Changing the BIOS order for the graphics card....installing drivers for card beforehand and also uninstalling any old drivers for any graphics card that was possibly previously installed using guru.. i even hooked up my t.v with hdmi port and that said no signal too

I have updated all drivers for the computer using driver pack solution i genuinely don't know what to do next.

Could it just be that my motherboard is too old?

My specs are:

CPU Type : Dual Core Intel Core 2 Duo E6550, 2333 MHz (7 x 333)
CPU Alias : Conroe
CPU #1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz, 2327 MHz
CPU #2 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz, 2327 MHz
Motherboard Name: FUJITSU SIEMENS D2598-A1
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Video Adapter Properties
Device Description: Intel(R) Q35 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0)
Memory Size: 256 MB
 

dale3232

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nope i only disabled the on-boards graphics card. And that is easily undone there IS an option to disable or enable which makes no difference what so ever and that was even done after about the 3rd try.

 

dale3232

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The connection is fine from the GPU to the monitor i have tried both VGA port from my original monitor and the HDMI to my t.v on two seperate cards.

The Inboard graphics card has also been activated again.

any other ideas?

 

dale3232

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Unfortunately it only has the one pci express slot and i don't have any one who has a desktop they've only got laptops so i think im stuck on this one now looks like i will have to give up on it n cut my loses start saving for another computer :??: