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Mook   02-05-2007 at 07:43:20 PM

Thank you for reading this, and thank you for the help.

My brother has an older computer that has an on-board graphics card. He bought an NVidia 7300 yesterday in order to play a game that just came out.
After uninstalling the old drivers, he plugged the card in the slot, plugged the monitor into the card and got nothing but a black screen after turning on computer.
The power supply is adequate to drive the card, anyone have any things we can check to fix this? Thanks again.

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JJMAN   02-05-2007 at 07:56:26 PM
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Thank you for reading this, and thank you for the help.

My brother has an older computer that has an on-board graphics card. He bought an NVidia 7300 yesterday in order to play a game that just came out.
After uninstalling the old drivers, he plugged the card in the slot, plugged the monitor into the card and got nothing but a black screen after turning on computer.
The power supply is adequate to drive the card, anyone have any things we can check to fix this? Thanks again.



You could try going into the bios and setting the INIT VIDEO BOOT (Or something similar) set it from onboard to AGP or if thats a PCIE card you got.
Another thing is if that doesnt work is, leave the 7300 in there, plug your monitor into the onboard card, boot it up and see if windows detects your new card. Load the drivers then reboot and plug in the new card.
Good Luck :)

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enforcerfx   02-05-2007 at 09:30:46 PM
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Make sure the card is seated correctly. What powersupply is he using? Also list the rest of the specs of his setup to further determine the problem he has right now. JJMAN's opinion is one of many.

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JJMAN   02-05-2007 at 10:12:27 PM
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Make sure the card is seated correctly. What powersupply is he using? Also list the rest of the specs of his setup to further determine the problem he has right now. JJMAN's opinion is one of many.



Yep mine is only one source indeed. :) Making sure the card is inserted all the way is a big one I forgot to mention.

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The power supply is adequate to drive the card,


I figured that if he typed that out that he already had an understanding that his Power supply was enough and that it was good. But it may be a flaky power supply. I've seen that so many times. :)

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