Recent content by Jester1013

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    Laptop boot issues

    A friend of mine is having trouble with her laptop. When she starts it up it goes to a black screen with a flashing _ (most likely the OS boot screen?) I asked her to try unplugging it and removing the battery then holding down the power button but that hasnt worked. She cant seem to find the...
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    Video card problems...out of ideas

    Well, its gotta be a dead card, because I thought my old video card was broken turns out it wasnt completely broken (was getting a really fractured display) because i decided to try and see what would happen if i used it and, bam it recognized it immediately. So I guess I will chock this up to...
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    Video card problems...out of ideas

    I tried doing the driver sweeper option when i first got it, so im pretty sure thats not it, and I dont have another system i can put it in to test the card to be sure.
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    Video card problems...out of ideas

    I have tried updating the drivers and bios for the motherboard, and im still not getting anything. When i go to try installing drivers for the card itself, all I get is that the installer cannot find the hardware. Could the card be dead?
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    Video card problems...out of ideas

    Well i thought i had a good idea, i changed out the cords that were running from the card to the psu, and connected one that could be used with the power cord from the hds and disc drive, and plugged that in as well, no change. Ill have to look into changing the bios or atleast updating anyway...
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    Video card problems...out of ideas

    I have the bios set to initialize with the PCIE x16 which im assuming to be the pci express 16 slot, which is where i have had my video card, i checked the cable running to the card and its connected on both ends. the onboard graphics are set to only enable if there is no external graphics card...
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    Video card problems...out of ideas

    Alright so a little more info, the cards i have been using are my new card (460gtx) and ive been switching between that and a radeon x700 that my friend had lying around. Ive removed the card several times, plugged in the pci connector, tried different slots, etc. I have a wireless card in my...
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    Video card problems...out of ideas

    So, I just recently upgraded my mobo, ram, cpu and video card after my mobo died on me. I install everything properly, but i cannot get my mobo to recognize my video card or any other video card i have put in. I can only currently get video from my onboard vga adapter and nothing else. I have...