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Hey guys, this is my first time posting on here. Looks like a neat forum! Anyway, I bought a GeForce 9800 GT card recently, and assembled it into my pc. Before I installed it, I went to device manager and disabled/uninstalled the onboard ATI Radeon X1200 card. I used the DVI-to-VGA adapter and got a No Signal screen on my monitor. Then I used the VGA adapter on the back of the PC, which worked.

When I run the NVidia drivers CD and try to install drivers, it says " The Graphics Adapter installed in the system is not compatible with the current set of drivers. I did some research went to the BIOS and made the primary display be PCI e, that didnt work either, the card does not show up in Device manager. Here is my system specs. Basically my computer is not recognizing the card.
(Being detailed so i dont waste your time back and forth :] )

PC Specs
Link to the card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product
motherboard: Asus M2A-VM
powersupply is an NZXT PF400. max output 400 watt ( minimum requirement for the card is 400W)
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3 GHz
2 gigs of ram
315Gb's of 469gb hard drive
Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit

Looking forward to getting this running! I am not very experienced in computers, but I'm very interested!

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Ok, so you set the primary display to PCI-E (or PEG), but while you were in there, did you see any options for disabling the onboard? Double check in your motherboard manual (should also be on the Asus site if you can't find yours) how to do that and if there are any other steps you have to take. Also, try removing and reinserting the 9800GT. And finally, did the 9800GT require any power connectors? If so, are they firmly attached?

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Reply to EXT64

There are not any other options other than selecting PCIe, PCI, or onboard vga.
Here is a picture
. http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/ [...] IOSpic.jpg
i updated the BIOS to the latest one, uninstalled the video card and tried again. However that did not help either. Also the card doesnt come with any power connectors.

Reply to chomans91

One thing you might try is going into the Device Manager and disabling the onboard graphics from there. Last time I installed a new video card in an XP machine, it wouldn't recognize the new card unless I disabled the onboard in the Device Manager. Also: Whatever you do in there, DON'T disable something called "Vgasave" -- that's Windows' emergency driver that gives you video when neither a card or an onboard GPU is active, and the results of disabling it can be dreadful (e.g. no video and no way to get video).

A couple of other tricks that have worked for me on stubborn machines include physically removing the card and doing a CMOS clear, then re-inserting the card and suddenly the machine recognizes it ... also in one case, simply re-seating the CPU gave the system the kick it needed to start looking for new components.

These are by no means the standard methods of installing a video card, but it sounds like you're following the standard procedure and it's not working due to some quirk with the machine, which does happen.

Reply to capt_taco

When you say that it didn't come with any power connectors... are you referring to cables, or the the card not having plug-ins for power cables?

Some 9800GTs are low power models that don't require a plug in to the PSU, but most are not. Your link to the card on newegg is broken, so if you could post the make and model, or a working link, we should be able to rule it out, or identify it as an issue.

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Reply to JofaMang

Hey again guys

I did disable the onboard card and also removed the software/drivers for the onboard card. That didnt help though.

Here is another link
http://www3.pny.com/9800-GT-1024MB-PCIe-P2727C420.aspx

The card doesnt come with the pci connectors, or the jack to put it in.
I will try the other suggestions , such as clearing CMOS and reinserting the CPU.

Reply to chomans91

The card you linked to requires a 6pin power connection to your PSU, and is the source of your porblems.. If you only have 4pin molex available, you can use an adapter. Go to a store and ask for 4pin molex to 6pin PCI-E converter.

Minimum System Requirements

* Intel® or AMD® compatible motherboard
* At least 512MB system RAM
* PCI Express® or PCI Express 2.0® compliant motherboard with one x16 graphics slot
* One 6-pin supplementary power connector
* Minimum 400W or greater system power supply (with a minimum 12V current rating of 26A)****
* 50 MB of available hard drive space
* CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
* Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP, or Vista™
* VGA or DVI-I compatible monitor

and it should have come with a 4pin molex to 6pin PCI-E converter.

Included in the box

* NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 1024MB PCIe 2.0 Graphics Card
* Quick Installation Guide
* Installation CD, which includes:
- Detailed installation guide (PDF)
- NVIDIA ForceWare Drivers
- Microsoft DirectX 9.0c
- NVIDIA GeForce Demos
- PNY and NVIDIA Desktop Wallpapers
* DVI-to-VGA adapters
* DVI-to-HDMI adapter
* Internal HDMI audio cable
* HDTV Break-Out Pod/Cable
* 4-pin Molex to 6-pin power adapter

If it really has no where to plug in to, then you linked the wrong card, heh.

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Reply to JofaMang

err i googled PNY geforce 9800 GT 1024 MB and found that. Mine looks exactly the same, same features , but it doesnt have a 4-pin Molex to 6-pin power adapter. sorry my apologies >.<

Reply to chomans91

Ok, the you need to hook up power to it. Since this is what the low power version looks like, hard to get the two confused, heh:

http://www3.pny.com/9800-GT-EE-102 [...] 0C331.aspx

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Reply to JofaMang

So i updated my powersupply and got a 550W one , replacing my old 400W power supply. Still no good!

Reply to chomans91

If the card you have looks EXACTLY like the one in the link you provided, you need to hook up power directly to the card from the PSU, the PCI slot will not provide enough power, nor is that model designed to be used in that fashion. As of yet you have not confirmed that you have hooked up the power cord from the PSU.

Reply to JofaMang

Chomans91.

http://img.tomshardware.com/us/200 [...] e_conn.jpg
http://www.legitreviews.com/images [...] _power.jpg

Do you see any ports on your graphic card that look like this? This is what JofaMang is asking.

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Reply to warmon6

Heya
No I dont have any PCIe connectors or whatever it is called. It is suppose to be a ''power efficient'' model. I put together pictures of my card from different angles.

http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/ [...] 9800GT.jpg

Reply to chomans91

Well that mean power issues are out of the question. Hmm... Unless other people have a different solution to the problem, maybe you need to reinstall windows. Sometimes starting off with a clean hdd will help. (be sure to save all important files to another HDD that the os is not on.)

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Reply to warmon6

Hmmm okay I will try that. I will make a partition and install Windows 7 on that one. think that could work?

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