i have a hercules prophet 4000xt 64 mb pci graphics card installed, my friend gave me a ATI Visiontek xtasy radeon 9250 128mb pci card and i want to install it but im having a very difficult time with it he cant find the driver cd but i downloaded the driver. i uninstalled my hercules and turned off the computer, unplugged it, removed the hercules, put the ati in, and when i turned it on i got a black screen then faded into a dark gray screen. my motherboard monitor outlet is different than my monitor plug so i have to have a graphics card so i have to keep plugging my hercules back up. i tried puting both of the cards in at the same time thinking that the plug and play would recognize it but it says it is a 9200 pro or something im about 5 seconds away from using some left over fireworks on my computer. plz help
switching graphics cards
- Thread starter cyrus186
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try this
install one card and make sure that your vga or hd cable or dvi fits for the card and stuff make sure you got the right hookup and make sure that ati card is suported by the 16x interface that pci express uses
is that a pci or pci express if it is id say you prolly got agp mixed up with a pci slot or something if that happens then that could be why? agp slots usually are black on mobo
and pci slots are white slots in the motherboard pci slots are usually under agp slots and you only have one agp slot per mobo that supports pci and agp
and the video card should work without the driver til you go online and get a driver. oh and whats the name of your motherboard and all that that will help me out alot so i can look up the specs if you would like just drop me a message and i will if you need a program to help ya out i can help ya with that as i am always free in the daytime drop me message after you repost cuz on here it doesnt notify me that someone posted
install one card and make sure that your vga or hd cable or dvi fits for the card and stuff make sure you got the right hookup and make sure that ati card is suported by the 16x interface that pci express uses
is that a pci or pci express if it is id say you prolly got agp mixed up with a pci slot or something if that happens then that could be why? agp slots usually are black on mobo
and pci slots are white slots in the motherboard pci slots are usually under agp slots and you only have one agp slot per mobo that supports pci and agp
and the video card should work without the driver til you go online and get a driver. oh and whats the name of your motherboard and all that that will help me out alot so i can look up the specs if you would like just drop me a message and i will if you need a program to help ya out i can help ya with that as i am always free in the daytime drop me message after you repost cuz on here it doesnt notify me that someone posted
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i plugged the monitor in correctly
it is not in the agp slot but im not sure if i have pci or pci express. my motherboard is an ASUS P5P800. the hercules works without the drivers but when i hooked up the radeon i didnt get anything just a blank screen not even a little blinky line
it is not in the agp slot but im not sure if i have pci or pci express. my motherboard is an ASUS P5P800. the hercules works without the drivers but when i hooked up the radeon i didnt get anything just a blank screen not even a little blinky line
heres the specs on your board
http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-ASUS_Intel_865PE_Socket775_ATX_Audio_LAN
not so you got an agp slot? you should hve one its block on the inside of your tower above pci slots if you got an agp use that its much better then pci for graphics and everything other then that it be easier to help you i never used a pci card b4 i always used agp
http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-ASUS_Intel_865PE_Socket775_ATX_Audio_LAN
not so you got an agp slot? you should hve one its block on the inside of your tower above pci slots if you got an agp use that its much better then pci for graphics and everything other then that it be easier to help you i never used a pci card b4 i always used agp