A buddy of mine snagged the crap out of his onboard video card and snapped it completely off from the motherboard. I tried installing a new 2mb pci video card but the computer and monitor does not recognize the new card at all. I just get a totally black monitor. I made sure that all the remaining gold prongs from the onboard card were not touching one another by bending and snapping all of them off from the motherboard. I also looked for a jumper on the motherboard but could not find one. The computer is running winxp....any suggestions??? Thanks in advance.
Onboard Video!!! What the???
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mgoldb2
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jailor said:
First of off breaking the onboard video card off the motherboard was a BAD idear. Most likly the problem is you damaged the motherboard when removing the onboard video card. The prober way to do it is disable the onboard video card then install the new video card. Acturally physically removing the onboard video card just not a good idear.
The video card was already broke off from the motherboard when my buddy gave it to me. He moved the computer while the monitor cord was still plugged in and it made the video card snap away from the mother board. All I did was make sure the prongs didn't touch and create an error.
Blue
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What is the computer? I never knew it possible to snap off onboard anything. Do you mean he snapped off a chip or somthing? hmmmmm. Very confused.
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Just curious but where was this onboard video in relation to the pci slot and in what direction did it run? Also what motherboard do you have? system specs?
Edit:
Just curious but where was this onboard video in relation to the pci slot and in what direction did it run? Also what motherboard do you have? system specs?
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