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girlnamedlou   07-12-2003 at 05:10:33 AM

Hello all...I know I know...I disappear for eons and then come back just to suck your brains dry...what can I say?? :smile:

Okay..here's my thing:

Just bought new video card (AOpenGF4/MX440 8X). The board I purchased in April (K7N2G) has integrated video (don't ask!!), and am anxious to do away with it. Installed new card...NO JUICE! It won't load Win XP!

I took it out, installed all its drivers, disabled onboard video, and still won't get past the OS load screen before monitor goes blank and shuts off.

I CAN enter BIOS...but am not sure what to look for.
Or is it a jumper issue? Can't see anything about jumpers for graphics card in the dumb manual...

Any advice??



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Howard   07-12-2003 at 05:20:06 AM
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Most of the time, it could be disabled in the bios, but all I know is that its in there.

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milkman37   07-12-2003 at 05:22:34 AM
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if its an agp card check if agp is enabled in bios!
hope that helps

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girlnamedlou   07-12-2003 at 05:24:19 AM
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But it really seems as though it's the OS...it hangs after the WinXP loading screen starts up. Though, sometimes it doesn't even get THAT far.

[sigh]

BTW...hi Howard. :smile:

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girlnamedlou   07-12-2003 at 05:25:29 AM
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The onboard card is AGP too...so I believe that's okay.



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Howard   07-12-2003 at 05:28:50 AM
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I know its definetly not in the OS. Either its through the bios as mentioned above, or if you plug the new one in, it'll automatically disable the integrated one. I had a friend that had a problem of putting an agp vid card, and it won't work, but switched to a PCI and worked fine. If else fail, try getting a PCI version of the MX 440.

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girlnamedlou   07-12-2003 at 05:40:14 AM
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Well...when I entered the BIOS with the new card in, it indicated that the new one was the default graphics card...so it <i>is</i> automatically defaulting to the new one.




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girlnamedlou   07-12-2003 at 06:31:42 AM
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Fixed it.
Had to go into safe mode (a pain with XP) and uninstall all display drivers. But...it's done.

Thanks for all input!


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dwellman   07-12-2003 at 02:30:26 PM
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Beat me to it.

One may only see all drivers installed (with Device Manager-- otherwise, one must use a registry editor) when in "Safe Mode". But that was what I was going to recommend. Going from onboard graphics to add-in graphics can be somewhat of a pain with Win2K/XP.

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svol   07-12-2003 at 06:39:33 PM
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LOU! Where have you been?

We missed you.

I love my Delta 60HP 7000 RPM fan that puts out more dB then CFM :eek:

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girlnamedlou   07-12-2003 at 10:00:26 PM
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Hehe...hiya Svolly!!
Just been uber busy. We bought a house, and I'm in "nesting" mode...makin' it my own.

How are YOU??
Enjoying your summer vacation?


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eden   07-13-2003 at 12:09:45 AM
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I've had a similar experience Lou.
My cousins' HP has only PCI, and the worse is that its on-board graphics was a pain as its drivers conflicted with the new MX420 PCI. The thing is he uses Win2000, and it seemed that the on-board one defaulted to 1024*768, when clearly when you switch cards, you will encounter the default 640*480. That caused a screen freeze after Win2000 has finished loading. It would not go past the splash screen. Actually it would, but you can't see it, you can hear the sound of entering Windows including being able to move around, just that the screen jammed. Only using the special VGA mode in the boot menu allowed us to enter a low resolution enough for the default no-driver mode, to be able to install the nVidia drivers.

As one said: Going from on-board to add-in is A PAIN!

BTW hope you enjoy the new house! Have you made the husband go nuts at how you now have a territory for yourself, as in a room filled with your own joy? Will you be able to hang out here as well, more often, pretty please?

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svol   07-15-2003 at 04:53:27 PM
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Cool, good luck with nesting in.

Yeah I'm enjoying my vacation... although it is way to hot at the moment. I think I would've gone to the beach today if I didn't had to stay home to wait on a postal delivery.

I love my Delta 60HP 7000 RPM fan that puts out more dB then CFM :eek:

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eden   07-15-2003 at 08:43:19 PM
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Svol you bumped such an old post, and I have a feeling Lou isn't reading this. She hasn't responded since.

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svol   07-16-2003 at 08:39:24 PM
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No, but she asked me something so I reply... if she not posted in 4 days it doesn't mean she wont.

I love my Delta 60HP 7000 RPM fan that puts out more dB then CFM :eek:

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eden   07-17-2003 at 04:27:02 AM
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NO!
NEVAH!
Lou wants me and only meeeeeeeeeeeeee!


:eek:

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Jake_Barnes   07-17-2003 at 04:54:07 AM
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Cheap posts guys


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eden   07-17-2003 at 05:12:19 AM
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Look who says that!

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Jake_Barnes   07-17-2003 at 05:22:21 AM
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Yea look -


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