Vid went out. verified monitor. Inspected case and components. found nothing remarkable.
board has integrated nViDia Gforce 6100 *stinks*.
bought new pci Gforce 6200 w/256m ram.
Ok here is what occured. thinking plug and play. installed new card (but unknowingly plugged monitor into old port and thought I was on the newly installed card) (integrated had not worked once for the last two months)
Powered up puter and darn if it didnt work. (as I thought I was on new card) followed instructions and uninstalled old vid drivers before installing new ones. Windows did recognize the GF6200 in the pci slot. OK reboot occurs.
dead vid sig. no video signal on integrated gf6100 or installed gf6200 in the pci slot.
I hate this integrated crap but my son brought it to me to fix. Slightly stumped. I feel video working was fluke and feel that drivers uninstalled would not matter on boot up it would find it and ask to install it. But I disabled the gf6100 integrated.
I cant see anything on the video monitor but know that windows is loading but do not know what state it is presenting itself because I cant see it. ARRRGGGHHHhhhhhhh ahhhh!
I am guessing I may have a bummed new vid card and should just exchange it (no comments on the crap card people I already know)
But something tells me that because the new card (assuming it is functioning) does not send a signal that there is something wrong that could be fixed if I could just get a pdf of the motherboard manual so I can verify jumps and stuff before tyring to recreate the initial event of old port working by chance just to get into bios. (I was thinking that if i disable an onboard vid port that I may have to make that change in bios)
What I dont understand is wouldn't bios automatically search for an output port and resolve the new card automatically or windows would with plug and play?
Any ideas on how to restore mb to its orig config?
Any Ideas folks?
Baffled in Texas
board has integrated nViDia Gforce 6100 *stinks*.
bought new pci Gforce 6200 w/256m ram.
Ok here is what occured. thinking plug and play. installed new card (but unknowingly plugged monitor into old port and thought I was on the newly installed card) (integrated had not worked once for the last two months)
Powered up puter and darn if it didnt work. (as I thought I was on new card) followed instructions and uninstalled old vid drivers before installing new ones. Windows did recognize the GF6200 in the pci slot. OK reboot occurs.
dead vid sig. no video signal on integrated gf6100 or installed gf6200 in the pci slot.
I hate this integrated crap but my son brought it to me to fix. Slightly stumped. I feel video working was fluke and feel that drivers uninstalled would not matter on boot up it would find it and ask to install it. But I disabled the gf6100 integrated.
I cant see anything on the video monitor but know that windows is loading but do not know what state it is presenting itself because I cant see it. ARRRGGGHHHhhhhhhh ahhhh!
I am guessing I may have a bummed new vid card and should just exchange it (no comments on the crap card people I already know)
But something tells me that because the new card (assuming it is functioning) does not send a signal that there is something wrong that could be fixed if I could just get a pdf of the motherboard manual so I can verify jumps and stuff before tyring to recreate the initial event of old port working by chance just to get into bios. (I was thinking that if i disable an onboard vid port that I may have to make that change in bios)
What I dont understand is wouldn't bios automatically search for an output port and resolve the new card automatically or windows would with plug and play?
Any ideas on how to restore mb to its orig config?
Any Ideas folks?
Baffled in Texas
