Im having issues with my computer grafics card

jacson2

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i just attemped to upgrade our hp pavilion intel pentium dual cpu e2220 2.40ghz with an old grafic card i had in m last computer i had it working find untill i shut down the computer i took out the card and every time i try to start it up it starts for about 5 sec then shuts down with nothing on display tried putting the old card i took out back in and the same thing happens i really need help quick !!
 

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i installed an old one and installed the drivers i used a pny geforce fx 5200 ddr 256 mb pci i worked fine when i pt it in and installed drivers but after i took it out is when i had all my issues
 

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Dude, an FX5200 is prehistoric - I had one in ~2004 (but it was AGP).
You're using a PCI one?
So your motherboard has built-in video, and no empty vidcard slot?
See, if you add in a vidcard (in this case nVidia) and you have been using onboard Intel graphics for example, your Windows will make a massive transformation to use the new nVidia graphics.
Then, if you pull out the nVidia vidcard your PC will freak.
You can't just casually switch between ATI, nVidia and Intel graphics - doesn't work that way!
Since you can buy a brand-new GT240 vidcard for only $79 bucks, that FX5200 is completely extinct...
Modern on-board graphics (like HD4250) would probably be more powerful.
Regards
 

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ok i fixed the problem :) went ahead and upgraded to a Geforce 9500 GT 1024mb/mo ddr2 and now all is well i need advice because im thinking of upgrading the power supply but don't want to about this clueless
 

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I have HP E2220 2.4 duel proc it uses onboard display Intel(R)G33/G31 I think it says 256mb enabled ok anyway I got given a Nvidia GeForce 8400GS Gigabyte card but I think it is 512mb...should I use this or the onboard display...sorry it seems a dumb question but I'm hesitant to break up a set package