Monitor or Graphics card??

[oscar]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

Well, new card bought. Put in machine and windows wont even load - put onld card back in. Windows loads but obviously no display. New crad in again and still windows wont load.

Got a good mind to take HD out and "drop it" down the stairs

[mauijim]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

Well, new card bought. Put in machine and windows wont even load - put onld card back in. Windows loads but obviously no display. New crad in again and still windows wont load.

Got a good mind to take HD out and "drop it" down the stairs

Did you try and load in Safe Mode as I suggested? It was probably worth trying to delete the old drivers and loading new ones.

What is the new card? I dare say it needs different drivers so unless you remove the old ones or there is going to be a conflict. The PC is looking for your old card/drivers and it cannot find them so it stops.

With the old card in place, boot into Safe Mode, remove the old drivers. Shut down the PC, remove the old card, fit the new card only this time rather than loading safe mode choose VGA Mode. Once you are in you can look at installing the drivers for the new card.

[oscar]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

cant remember how to get into safe mode.

Surely the driver conflict should only be an issue AFTER windows loads up. With the new card, windows doesnt even try to load up

[oscar]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

new card is geforce 8400 GS (512MB)

[mauijim]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

cant remember how to get into safe mode.

Surely the driver conflict should only be an issue AFTER windows loads up. With the new card, windows doesnt even try to load up

Should be able to press F8 at boot up to enter Safe Mode.

The issue will be there because it has to pre fetch the drivers and load them - it may be booting into DOS but it will still need to load the drivers UNLESS you boot in Safe or VGA mode.

[oscar]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

old drivers removed (in safe mode) - new card installed, same problem - wont even boot up.

Beginning to think it might be more serious than a grafix card problem

[mauijim]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

old drivers removed (in safe mode) - new card installed, same problem - wont even boot up.

Beginning to think it might be more serious than a grafix card problem

Okay so I need to know which motherboard you have. Some chip sets cannot handle certain PCI-E cards..VIA being a culprit.

If you let me know the model number of the motherboard I can try and help you.

I doubt it is more serious than the graphics cards.

[mauijim]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

Also, can you tell me the exact and full title of the new card.

Who makes it, is it PCI or PCI-E there are two options and you may have been sold the wrong one.

[oscar]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

No idea on MB - but machine is a Medion 8188.

new card is a PNY Nvidia Geforce 8400GS with 512DDR2

card is PCIe

[Never-In-Doubt]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

Install this to get pc specs mate. Post results please

---> Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit

Uninstall it again afterwards. It works via HTML so not dodgy.

[oscar]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

Cant download anything mate - old card is goosed and keeps crashing the system.

Computer wont boot full stop with new card.

[Never-In-Doubt]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

Cant download anything mate - old card is goosed and keeps crashing the system.

Computer wont boot full stop with new card.

Ok, usually an "Aldi Special" (that is what Medion are lol) has these specs:

Does yours have pretty much the same or not? If so the red font below is the likely mobo for your system

Medion MD 8818
Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe) E6300 1.86Ghz.
Micro-star MS-7318
1gb Samsung DDR2 533Mhz RAM
Seagate SATA II 320gb HDD
Hybrid (Digital+Analog) TV Tuner + Radio
nVidia Geforce 7650GS w/ HDMI, DVI, VGA, S-Video, Composite, Component + Scart.
Windows XP MCE 2005 with Remote.
Sony DVD+RW DL w/ Lightscribe + Sony DVD-Rom
Wireless LAN 802.11g

I think this MoBo might be integrated (as some seem to suggest the option is there), you should be able to boot-up and head towards BIOS (usually you'd hit F8/F10/DEL etc - it'll show you at start-up what option to press) then look in Integrated components to turn the on-board (integrated) graphics on, in which case you'd shuit down and remove the PCI card (temporarily). If there are no integrated graphics, then bummer - scrap the above

[Never-In-Doubt]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

Right, see this: ---> Medion info and files



So now we "think" your mobo is an MSI (Microstar) Motherboard MS-7318 which helps... can you confirm does it look like this:

[oscar]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

looks similar but mine only has two memory banks (and only has 512Mb) - will check properly later as need to be making a move to work shortly.

In the mean time I will remove CMOS so I can get into the BIOS.

[Never-In-Doubt]

Re: Monitor or Graphics card??

In the mean time I will remove CMOS so I can get into the BIOS.

removing CMOS (battery) doesn't always reset BIOS password mate - are you locked out of BIOS?