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Hey, I have an old Dell Dimension 9200 and its Graphics Card is dying but I just need to use it for its firewire 1394 port to covert some old DV tapes. Anyways the computer boots and I get a picture and everything. I can install Windows but after it installs I get a black screen, then when I try Ubuntu it does some SUPER weird things and essentially crashes the computer. So is there some version of linux I can install or some windows driver I can have installed that will go SUPER EASY on the graphics card? Like I said I'm just using it to covert Tapes so I don't care the quality of the graphics. I probably will just install Team Viewer or something and throw it in my basement anyways.
 
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No, at that price, you're best off getting a new card, like the RX 460 for $100. I don't think it would make that much of a difference anyway, and even if it did, the PC would be vary unstable.
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Does your motherboard have integrated graphics? And do you have a another PC or a friend with a flash drive? You'll need those, or if you still have the driver CD use that.
If you've got the CD that came with the card, run that, restart and you should be good to go.
If you don't, but you have integrated graphics, uninstall the card, find the drivers online, and install them, then reinstall he card.
Otherwise, get a buddy to download the drivers and make an installation CD (follow this- http://smallbusiness.chron.com/can-download-internet-drivers-cd-install-another-computer-68139.html ) and use that CD. You will need acess to BIOS, though
 
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It does not have integrated graphics sadly, or else this wouldn't be a problem. Yes I do have another PC, well its an iMac Dual Booting Mac OSX and Windows 7, currently booted into Windows 7. I don't believe it came with a CD for the GPU because it was a pre-built system. So are the GPU's drivers like drivers that I would have to tell windows to install off of a USB drive before the initial Installation? Btw the Graphics Card is a NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
 
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Currently the PC isn't running anything cause I can't get past the completing installation phase. But when I tried it I tried Windows 7 64bit and I also tried Windows Vista 32bit and they both did the same thing. My Mac is running Windows 7 64bit.
 
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No, windows must be installed first. Do you have access to BIOS? BIOS is accessed by pressing delete or F2 or while booting up.
 
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Yes I can, I am using DVDs. I have tried but haven't successfully done it any other way. The only thing I have done without a CD/DVD, which is really weird but a while ago I installed a Hackintosh ISO through the DVD drive in the computer onto an external USB hard drive. I'm not quite sure how it worked, I think it was through the Ubuntu Grub loader but I was able to boot into the installed OS on the external USB drive.
 
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It turns out that windows automagically installs universal video drivers that work for all cards (it's just not optimized for any particular ones like what I showed you before)... I didn't know that before. Can you re-describe the situation with your display before we deem it broken? Drivers cant repair hardware...
 
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Okay, I'm not home so I can't send you a video/pictures but I can later if needed. So basically the computer starts with the Dell logo with green lines, then it boots and says that the floppy disk is missing press F1 to continue, because I think I accidentally set the main boot to floppy disk which is weird because the computer doesn't even have a floppy disk drive, since it's not that old. Anyways that has weird lines in the text, but it will boot into the Windows install disk fine, it's low resolution but it will boot fine with no lines and I can use it with no problem until I reboot the computer and it goes to completing installation, then a black screen. The graphics card used to be fine, but it's pretty old so I think it's just dying and can't handle it after the installation. It has 2 DVI ports and i have one of them on a DVI to HDMI adapter hooked up to a TV but that isn't the problem because I've used it that same way perfectly fine before, I've even gamed on that PC like that before. Do u just want me to record it? I'm not very good at describing things haha
 
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Recording it shouldn't be needed. I sort of misunderstood the title/ question at first, when you said dying I thought you meant it was new but had little ongoing support or manufacturing. All I can see to try now is to play with the ports and see if one of those died on you, but you said you've already used them both... What your boot device is defiantly should not affect you GPU, and artifacts (those lines you describe) on a not overclocked card probably represent the end of its lifespan. If it is overclocked, you may be able to squeeze some more life out of it by overriding you OC at startup (most softwares like afterburner have a key you can press to boot without the overclock), but even if that did work, we know the card is nearing the end.
 
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Oh okay, my bad maybe I should've been more clear. Well now that you know what I'm talking about, do you know if there's like some Linux distribution or even like windows XP that would be easy enough on the GPU that it wouldn't give me a blank screen? I would just need to run VLC on it.
 
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No, at that price, you're best off getting a new card, like the RX 460 for $100. I don't think it would make that much of a difference anyway, and even if it did, the PC would be vary unstable.
 
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