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Video card on PCI Slot
Name: danijh1 Date: August 30, 2004 at 19:25:07 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 256 DDR RAM
Comment:
I just got a new motherboard....i put my 64 MB video card in the PCI Slot..."Yes it is a PCI verion.." my montior clicks on and then off......can someone tell me what to do?....someone told me about bridging???
Name: StuartS Date: August 30, 2004 at 19:48:05 Pacific
Reply:
Try re-seating it. They can sometimes work lose when you tighten the screw.
No idea what is meant by bridging. Never heard of it in relation to video card, network cards yes, but not video cards.
Stuart
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Response Number 2
Name: danijh1 Date: August 30, 2004 at 23:02:48 Pacific
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reseating it does not work..........any other ideas
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Response Number 3
Name: tom529 Date: August 31, 2004 at 06:40:28 Pacific
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are you building a new system or just replacing mother board? did that card work in another system?
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Response Number 4
Name: RockyBalboa Date: August 31, 2004 at 08:48:01 Pacific
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does your motherboard have onboard graphics? are you sure this card works?
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Response Number 5
Name: danijh1 Date: August 31, 2004 at 10:54:17 Pacific
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i am just replacing my motherboard...... the video card was working on the old motherboard..... i just tested it again on the old motherboard and it works.......there is no onboard video...... so is there something special i have to do to make my video ard work on a PCI slot..."Video card is for PCI"
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Response Number 6
Name: tom529 Date: August 31, 2004 at 14:03:24 Pacific
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is your card old enough to predate plug and play?
try a diff pci slot (suspect system board)
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Response Number 7
Name: cliffpage Date: September 1, 2004 at 12:51:25 Pacific
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if your PCI card has 64mb memory it can't be too ancient. If your mobo does not have on board graphics and you have everything else in place correctly (RAM, Drives, CPU) then you should get an image on the screen. There is nothing extra you should have to do. Does it have AGP slot also, can you get/borrow AGP graphics card from somewhere to try it to see if that works (to prove that mobo/CPU/RAM/Drives etc are working fine). In the Bios/set up on my ASUS motherboard you can tell it whether you have the graphics card in the PCI slot or the AGP slot. But this just tells the computer where to try first, if it is set round wrong way it still works but in theory just takes a second longer for the screen to come on - I know for a fact it works either way round on mine as i had it set wrong for ages. (obviuosly a bit hard to check BIOS/Setup if screen does not come on)
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