Help me on VGA card upgrade

[atuzai]

Got a new Asus V8170 VGA card and want to replace the old card on Dell 4300. but after install the card and restart the pc, the monitor has no signal. Checked manuel, found need switch display driver to stander VGA model. Could anyone tell me how to do it in windows xp home version? Thanks!

 

[Acanthus]

no signal in bios? or no signal after loading windows?

please tell me the rest of your system specs (especially ram, cpu, psu)

 

[Viper96720]

Try reseating the video card push it in good. You should at least get a signal. Make sure the contacts aren't dirty with dust or anything.

 

[atuzai]

totally no any signal. screen is black as turn off. the pc is standard DELL 4300, P4 1.5G, 768M memory, original VGA card was ATI PAGE
128 pro ultra GL ASP with 16M memory. New card is Asus V8170 Magic/T with 64M memory and TV out. I uninstall the original driver for
ATI card at drivce menage. and replace the old one with new one. card seating should be fine. but after restart the pc no any signal
I tried installed Asus card driver with old ATI card and then repeat above procedure, still failed , what else I can do? Now I am wondering
maybe the card itself has problem. Maybe I need tried it on another machine. any other suggestion ? Thanks!

 

[DTSS]

Its possible that you mobo doesn't support a 4x video card. Your old card is a 2x video card. I have seen this problem before. This is why I hate store bought computers!

you can try and go into your bios and change your AGP MODE to 4x w/ your old video card , save changes and shut down. Install new card and see what happens. also, try and test card in different pc...card might be bad!

Daryl -DTSS

 

[atuzai]

The old card information shows chipset is RAGE pro II, 4x AGP card. My pc system memory is SDRAM, new card is DDR ram. Does this
can cause problem?

 

[MarkHark]

no, it can't be the cause. Maybe you just got a faulty VGA card, but try removing it, and reinserting it firmly after cleaning the contacts if necessary.
If it still does not work at all, swap the old card back and test the new one in another CPU. It is probably bad.

 

[MarkHark]

also make sure VGA cable is properly inserted... It may sound strange, but I know of someone who got to insert it into the VGA card backwards and break a few pins in the process

 

[atuzai]

The card is no problem, it works well on my friends pc. I also borrowed my friend's PNY mx440-se with 64M DDR , it no problme on my pc too. Anyone can help me figure out whatelse may cause the problem?