About a week ago, I installed a new video card in my PC. While the drivers were loading, the power supply burnt out because, obviously, it wasn't powerful enough to handle the new vid card.
Flash forward to today, when I finally decide to umm... woman up and get over my fear of blowing something up and installed the new PSU.
Here's where the question comes in:
My original vid card was/is integrated, for lack of a better term. Basically, it can't be physically removed. It's like welded, or some shtein, into the motherboard.
1.) Do I need to plug the monitor into the new vid card to "activate" it, make it the default, whatever you wanna say...?
2.) Because the old one is integrated, do I have to go into my system properties and manually disable it so it doesn't even register as an option?
3.) When I go to systemrequirementslab.com (yes- all this BS just to play a friggin' game at optimum), when it scans my system, it only gives the info for the old card. Is that because:
a.) My monitor is plugged into the old card?
b.) There's a chance the drivers never finished loading before the PSU went aflame? (Although, my hardware manager shows it as "device working properly, blah blah blah)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. :-\
PM the wise owl
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get a mac. it will figure life out for you
Even if not a Mac, the days of upgrading a computer in pieces are pretty much gone.
Get a new computer next time.
1. With your display plugged into the integrated video port, go into your BIOS and disable the on-board video. Save changes and exit.
2. Turn the PC off
3. Plug the display into your AGP/PCI video card, and turn the machine on.
If you get no joy...switch back to the on-board port and restart, then post here again, and we'll try something else.
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Quote from: PhillyPhaninDC on February 17, 2007, 04:47:54 PM
1. With your display plugged into the integrated video port, go into your BIOS and disable the on-board video. Save changes and exit.
2. Turn the PC off
3. Plug the display into your AGP/PCI video card, and turn the machine on.
If you get no joy...switch back to the on-board port and restart, then post here again, and we'll try something else.
Grazie! I will try that and report back.
Thanks again for your help! ;D
Well, I tried that and it didn't work. I was getting nothing on my monitor when I rebooted. So, I restarted in "Last Config" and uninstalled/re-installed the new vid card, thinking maybe the problem was the drivers never finished loading the first time around. I disabled the old one in Device Manager and plugged the monitor into the new card while it was restarting. Didn't work.
I'm 3 seconds away from throwing the goddamn thing out the window...
Anything else I should try before I break down and just bring it to my friends comp shop? :boom
Your friend has a computer shop and you've been wasting your time asking these brainiacs what to do? Poor form.
Quote from: BlueHeart on February 18, 2007, 10:32:56 PMAnything else I should try before I break down and just bring it to my friends comp shop?
chill out. stop posting in blue. wait for
PPinDC or someone else to read what's happened so far, and suggest the next options.
or, if you friend can fix it, drop it off there and get a nice bottle of wine for him/her as thanks.
relax. it's just a farging computer.
Sarge- Well, I don't like to take advantage of the situation unless it's necessary (which it seems to be turning into). I'll always try everything I can do myself before having someone else do something for me.
Plus, humping it out to Brooklyn after work sucks monkey ass.
Then have your friend stop by your place. :)
LOL- He'll be here this coming weekend, but, I'd like it done before then. I'd never ask him to make the "trip" to fix something so stupid.
Why not? Who says he won't need your help one day? Like when he realizes he can no longer root for a losing team and...oh...right. You can't help him there. You root for the Giants, for Eli farging Manning, Plaxico Burress, Jeremy Shockey, and Tom the wannabe nazi Coughlin. hahaha
Anyway...friends are better than money. Call the guy/girl if you need it fixed quick.
Double check your BIOS to make sure there isn't some way to disable the onboard video.
Right-click on my computer, and click manage. Then click on Device Manager, and then Display Adapters. How many entries are there, and what are they?
I'm tellin' ya...
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Settle down there, Patrick Norton.
just have your friend fix it, you blow him, and everything is status quo
is there a way to download a song from ITunes and convert it so it can be played in Windows Media Player?
Absolutely.
sweet.
Burn it to CD from iTunes and then rip it. Sometimes there are tools that get around FairPlay, but Apple has to (and does) realease a fix within a week or two of being cracked or they will lose their license to sell the music.
Quote from: Cerevant on February 19, 2007, 06:22:11 AM
Double check your BIOS to make sure there isn't some way to disable the onboard video.
Right-click on my computer, and click manage. Then click on Device Manager, and then Display Adapters. How many entries are there, and what are they?
They show the old vid card, and the new one is listed twice. One of the two entries has "secondary" next to it.
SunMo... (http://209.85.62.23/71/116/emo/nono1.gif)
Quote from: Cerevant on February 19, 2007, 02:24:48 PM
Burn it to CD from iTunes and then rip it. Sometimes there are tools that get around FairPlay, but Apple has to (and does) realease a fix within a week or two of being cracked or they will lose their license to sell the music.
I got 75 songs worth of gift certs for christmas and haven't used them because I can't be bothered with this pain in the ass. I'm re-gifting them. Also..having songs as a gift cert doesn't really work out because you can't get "album" track only songs..only songs that are specifically avail. a la carte.
farg iTunes
Quote from: BlueHeart on February 19, 2007, 04:42:35 PM
Quote from: Cerevant on February 19, 2007, 06:22:11 AM
Double check your BIOS to make sure there isn't some way to disable the onboard video.
Right-click on my computer, and click manage. Then click on Device Manager, and then Display Adapters. How many entries are there, and what are they?
They show the old vid card, and the new one is listed twice. One of the two entries has "secondary" next to it.
SunMo... (http://209.85.62.23/71/116/emo/nono1.gif)
Most new video cards have a primary and secondary output.
It sounds like you need to find a way to disable the on-board video. If the new card is showing up in device manager and there aren't any errors (no ! or X over the icon) then it is installed OK. It sounds like the on-board video is preventing the new card from working.
Nope. No conflicts showing anywhere, so, I dunno... I can't seem to get it. I posted this on 2 other boards as well and have tried all suggestions. I officially give up and will let my friend do it. It's his problem now. ;D
Thanks to everyone who tried to help. It was greatly appreciated!!