need help to install graphics!

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kefflon

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Hi!

I bought this cheap PC at a place called Nanodog, with these components:

CPU: Intel Sandybridge Pentium Dual Core G620 - 2.6GHz
Memory: 2GB DDR3-1333 with Heatsink
Motherboard: Gigabyte H61M-S2
Graphics: Intel HD
Hard Drive: 500GB SATA II
Optical Drive: Dual Layer DVD-Writer
Case: Gigabyte GZ-P3
Power Supply: Gigabyte 350 Watt

then I bought a second hand Graphic card, ATi Radeon X1900 XT 512 mb + Revoltec cooling

I tried to put it in, but then the screen says no signal input. When I took it out the computer started just as normal.

Will this graphic card work? And in that case how do i do it?

Kefflon
 
Do you have your monitor cable plugged into the port on the new video card? The 1900 is an outdated card and the onboard graphics I think will actually out perform it. I would go with the onboard graphics until you can get an updated card. You may also have to go into the bios and disable onboard intel graphics for the card to work.
 
I put the monitor in the usual monitor plug, i e not on the card. i realised that i dont have a power cable for the graphic card, it looks like i need a 6 pin power cable that can connect with the power cable in the pc
 
When you add a dedicated video card to a system it usually disables the onboard video so you can't use it. Thats why when you attached the monitor cable to the onboard video it had no signal. You will need a power supply that has a pci express 6 pin power cable for the video card. Or you can buy an adapter that creates the connector, like this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812189120
 
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