- Jul 29, 2018
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Hello all,
I've tinkered with computers for many years. However, I never work with desktops that often and I've never had any experience with video cards beforehand, so this is all new to me.
I've got an old desktop from my father to replace an old one that stopped working (he repairs computers, so luckily hardware isn't hard to come by). It appears to be a custom built one that was given to him. I recently installed Windows 7 onto it. It is specifically used for my young niece/nephew/other visiting children to play games, to give context as to what kinds of things might be ran on it. If you need any more information about what I have, please let me know.
It had a very ancient video card in it, so my father gave me a GeForce 210 card he found in his shed. I turned off and unplugged everything from the computer, put it in, plugged the VGA cord into the on-board graphics and turned it on and installed the drivers. After that, I turned it off then I plugged the VGA into the new graphics card to test it and turned it back on. It showed no video input. The NVIDIA control panel also does not work, as the program immediately crashes upon attempting to run. It appears that all the drivers are installed. Perhaps I just need to reinstall them? NVIDIA drivers seem to be quite buggy from what I've gathered.
Update: By the way, if a GeForce 210 is just garbage and not suitable for gaming, please let me know. Like I said, I don't know much about video cards and this is a learning experience for me. I can easily get another one.
I've tinkered with computers for many years. However, I never work with desktops that often and I've never had any experience with video cards beforehand, so this is all new to me.
I've got an old desktop from my father to replace an old one that stopped working (he repairs computers, so luckily hardware isn't hard to come by). It appears to be a custom built one that was given to him. I recently installed Windows 7 onto it. It is specifically used for my young niece/nephew/other visiting children to play games, to give context as to what kinds of things might be ran on it. If you need any more information about what I have, please let me know.
It had a very ancient video card in it, so my father gave me a GeForce 210 card he found in his shed. I turned off and unplugged everything from the computer, put it in, plugged the VGA cord into the on-board graphics and turned it on and installed the drivers. After that, I turned it off then I plugged the VGA into the new graphics card to test it and turned it back on. It showed no video input. The NVIDIA control panel also does not work, as the program immediately crashes upon attempting to run. It appears that all the drivers are installed. Perhaps I just need to reinstall them? NVIDIA drivers seem to be quite buggy from what I've gathered.
Update: By the way, if a GeForce 210 is just garbage and not suitable for gaming, please let me know. Like I said, I don't know much about video cards and this is a learning experience for me. I can easily get another one.
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