Calling All Computer Nerds

[BlueHeart]

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. 

[SD_Eagle5]

PM the wise owl

[BlueHeart]

Whooooo?

[mussa]

get a mac. it will figure life out for you

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Even if not a Mac, the days of upgrading a computer in pieces are pretty much gone.


Get a new computer next time.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

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.

[Geowhizzer]

[Sgt PSN]

PM the wise owl

Whooooo?

This guy

[BlueHeart]

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! 

[BlueHeart]

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?

[Sgt PSN]

Your friend has a computer shop and you've been wasting your time asking these brainiacs what to do?  Poor form. 

[Diomedes]

Anything 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.

[BlueHeart]

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.

[Sgt PSN]

Then have your friend stop by your place. 

[BlueHeart]

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.