So, my mother wanted a video game for Christmas: The Witness, a kind of Myst-like... something. No idea.
She supposedly got a pretty decent compute, which it is (Dell Inspiron 620, i3 3.3Ghz, 8GB Ram), but onboard, Intel graphics, and a VGA output.
Well, I have video cards just lying around, so I take a couple with me:
AMD 5750
AMD 6770
And then there was the old one from my father's computer:
GeForce GT620
The first problem was that her power supply didn't have a 6-pin plug (300W, too...), so I tried the GT620.
No signal on DVI from card, VGA from onboard graphics said it was disabled automatically when it detected another card.
So, maybe even that video card needed more power, so I went home and grabbed a spare 600W PSU, hooked it up... same problem.
I tried the 6770, since that was what I was going to put in, anyway, and it did the same thing. I tried the 5750, and it didn't detect it, at all, and just booted up normally on the VGA port.
Any thoughts?
She supposedly got a pretty decent compute, which it is (Dell Inspiron 620, i3 3.3Ghz, 8GB Ram), but onboard, Intel graphics, and a VGA output.
Well, I have video cards just lying around, so I take a couple with me:
AMD 5750
AMD 6770
And then there was the old one from my father's computer:
GeForce GT620
The first problem was that her power supply didn't have a 6-pin plug (300W, too...), so I tried the GT620.
No signal on DVI from card, VGA from onboard graphics said it was disabled automatically when it detected another card.
So, maybe even that video card needed more power, so I went home and grabbed a spare 600W PSU, hooked it up... same problem.
I tried the 6770, since that was what I was going to put in, anyway, and it did the same thing. I tried the 5750, and it didn't detect it, at all, and just booted up normally on the VGA port.
Any thoughts?
Maybe there's a way to enable what display output is working?
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