9800 gtx problem with mobo

I got a new Nvidia 9800 GTX, and installed it. When the PC boots up it shows the 9800 gtx, then when Vista boots it no longer recognizes it. I disabled the onboard video but no luck yet?

Please help.


Yes, it all loads normally. Except for the fact that it does not see the video card. It's bizzare bacause it is plugged into the GFX card. Card fan is running, and the onboard is disabled, but I still have my desktop. Even checked bios and the primary is PIC EX, not onboard.

My Mobo is http://www.e4allupgraders.info/dir1/...P61PM-GM.shtml

MCP61PM-GM

I added a new 550 W psu, and it's got 3 MBPS of ram. It's an emachine that I want to give to my son to play games. It's running 32bit vista. PCI ex is not 2.0 I dont think but I thought PCI ex 2.0 was backwards compatible?

I appreciate the help.

When you say it shows it. Where is it showing it ? Have you looked in the device manager ? If not take a look, if its got a yellow question mark or triangle under display adapter then most probably the driver you are using isnt recognised.

Mactronix

oh oh, now I am getting a black screen now

He said the fan was spinning on the card. That means that there IS power going to the card.

When are you getting a black screen? When you start up, or when you go into windows?
If it is when you start up, it is most likely because you disabled the on-board video.

Boudy, your right I desabled the onboard video, now I seem to be screwed. All I get is the black screen. Man I messed this up.

Try this: http://www.pcmech.com/article/how- [...] ideo-card/

Im not sure how you installed the card, so that might of had something to do with it.

That looks more like an IP address than a driver version . Try installing the latest ones instead: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvi [...] _whql.html