need help with nvidia geforce fx go5200, its not being detected

S

scoot87

New Member
so i'll explain exactly what the problem is...

I decided to reinstall my dell inspiron 8600 back to its factory setting. When I did the display driver was changed to vga. i put in my dell driver cd to download the nvidia driver for my hardware, but the hardware was not detected. i restarted my computer and went into the bios to make sure the hardware was still nvidia. the video controller said it was a nvidia geforce fx go5200. so the hardware is nvidia but it is not detected. what can i do to have it be detected? right now the display format is "default monitor" with a vga adapter, not nvidia. the display is poor quality and everytime i scroll it makes a little ripple effect. please help. any help would be much appreciated.
 
scoot87 said:
so i'll explain exactly what the problem is...

I decided to reinstall my dell inspiron 8600 back to its factory setting. When I did the display driver was changed to vga. i put in my dell driver cd to download the nvidia driver for my hardware, but the hardware was not detected. i restarted my computer and went into the bios to make sure the hardware was still nvidia. the video controller said it was a nvidia geforce fx go5200. so the hardware is nvidia but it is not detected. what can i do to have it be detected? right now the display format is "default monitor" with a vga adapter, not nvidia. the display is poor quality and everytime i scroll it makes a little ripple effect. please help. any help would be much appreciated.
Click to expand...

Did you re-install the drivers?
 
hmm..i had that problem before. First of all, you're pluging the monitor into the fx5200 and nothing shows up? Have you tried disabeling onboard video? And the ripple affect usually means that you havn't installed the video drivers.
 
i tried to install the video drivers with my dell driver cd, but the video card hardware was not detected by the dell cd, so when i downloaded the driver, nothing happened. for some reason, the nvidia geforce is not being detected by the computer. the video card is however being detected when i restart the comp and press f12. it shows up as a video controller.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top