kerryajs

Hi,
I bought a new computer off Ebay which had some sort of test operating system on it but it would not recognize the mouse or keyboard so I formatted and installed Win XP Pro. Now I cannot get my computer to recognize the 128mb nVidia Geforce video card installed on it when I bought it. I have checked Device Manager and run systems information and hardware recognition programs, but it does not appear. After running the DirectX diagnostics program, it said that it was only reading the on-board video so I reinstalled all the drivers on the CD that came with the computer and the video now shows up as Device Name: Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family , which I assume is the onboard card. I downloaded the drivers off the NVIDIA web site but I get the message that the " NVIDIA setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware." I am not really confident about taking out the video card ( I would not even be sure what it looked like!) and rebooting the computer and then putting it back in the hopes that Win XP will then recognize it, so can you help me with an easier way? I believe that you have to disable the onboard video through Bios to get Windows to recognize the separate card. How do I do that and will it mean that I get no picture at all when I boot it up again? It appears that all new 128mb nVidia Geforce video card come with T&L, but do you need to do anything to get this feature to work and are all types separate cards or are some onboard as I am not sure of the model number. I have contacted the seller several times but he has not yet replied .Thanks very much- Kerry

grimx133

Kind of sounds like you have the cable from the monitor connected to the onboard. The video card connection isn't in the back panel, but on the card which is in an expansion slot below the back panel. When a tower is standing up, the back panel runs up and down, the card runs side to side and that is where you want the video cable connected.