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05-14-2005, 02:35 PM
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Geforce FX 5500 Problems Please HELP!!!
Hi,
I recently Purchased a Nvidia Geforce FX5500 256MB Video Card Dual Head http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN%3AIT&rd=1 Link to the card.. I have a Compaq Presario 2.6 ghz celeron processer Model number S6020wm. I plugge in the Card and booted up the computer.... nothing showed up.. so I pluged the monitor back into my "onboard" video card, and rebooted my system. Then I went into Bios and switched to PCI video card. Rebooted again, and switched cables back to the Video card. My computer started up like normal, made it to the Win XP page (showing it was loading), then it just goes blank....... I waited along time thinking well maybe its having some problem and will fix itself but nothing happened. So..... I unplugged from the card and plugged back into the onboard video slot and it worked again... however when I rebooted my system (because Bios says PCI) I don't get anything to show up at first and then eventually the onboard kicks in and it shows me what i am looking at... My question is..... Why isn't the PCI video card working once it gets past the Win Xp loading screen... It just goes blank like it switches to the onboard video on loadup and I can't figure out how to make it work the other way..... I'm very new to installing components so Please be gentle with me and speak in dumbed down talk otherwise I might not understand..... please help.... I spent alot of money on this card and I waited soooooo long before I could finally get one..... 
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05-14-2005, 03:25 PM
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If that card requires that you plug in a molex or floppy drive power cable then your system just may not be pumping enought juice to run it all.
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05-14-2005, 03:34 PM
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Sounds like a driver issue to me.
Remove the new card. Go into bios and choose the onboard card. Go into Windows. Go to the system control panel. Hardware tab. Device manager. Now under display adapters delete your onboard video card. If it tells you it needs to reboot to make changes, say no. Shutdown. Add your new card. Power up, go into bios and switch to pci. Boot. It should go into Windows, discover new hardware and ask for drivers. The reason it did not work before is it was trying to run your new video card with the onboard drivers. Let us know if this works or not.
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