Need help upgrading from onbord video

[RLspin]

Its more like a repair than an uprade. I turn my work PC on and there was no video feed to the monitor. I checked the monitor and it was fine. Thankfully the MB has a AGP port. I installed a new 9600xt but I still couldn't get any video. Do I have to turn off Onboard Video off in BIOS? It would be pretty hard since there's no video to work with. I could really use some suggestions

Thanks

 

[L00PY]

Sounds like a bad video cable. Can you swap it out or test it on a working rig?

 

[beggerking]

it may not be a videocard problem.. most likely bad memory or bad CPU?

did you actually boot into windows? or did it not boot?

I say the first thing to try is to reset the bios..by removing the lithum battery from your motherboard for 5 min and put it back in..

 

[RLspin]

I hooked up the monitor to my home PC so I know it's not the cable. I tried my home display and still got no signal. I haven't been able to boot to windows, or at least I can't tell with no display. When you switch from onboard to AGP do you have to turn off onboard first or does it switch automaticly?

 

[necro007]

Originally posted by: RLspin
I hooked up the monitor to my home PC so I know it's not the cable. I tried my home display and still got no signal. I haven't been able to boot to windows, or at least I can't tell with no display. When you switch from onboard to AGP do you have to turn off onboard first or does it switch automaticly?

You have to swith it off as soon as you boot up again otherwise all you are going to do is still use your onboard instead of your 9600xt.

Thats what i had to do when installed my Grafix card.

 

[RLspin]

The onboard video port doesn't work, how can I switch it off if I can't see the BIOS screen?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: RLspin
The onboard video port doesn't work, how can I switch it off if I can't see the BIOS screen?

If there's no other way to switch it, and the MB doesn't boot up on both the onboard and AGP port, you may not realistically be able to. RMA?

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: RLspin
The onboard video port doesn't work, how can I switch it off if I can't see the BIOS screen?

Nearly any BIOS will attempt to POST and find any kind of video that it gets an electronic reply from, but you have to hit the BIOS access key early in the process before it runs into a conflict from its current settings. Sometimes, it's necessary to cycle through the default settings to allow it to try this "anything if it works", type of attempt (you may have to move the "Clear CMOS" jumper over and back again). The BIOS's menu screens are more flexible than the screens it tries to display when it reports what it finds during its POST.

In other words, if you know the correct key to press that accesses the Setup, with some MB's and BIOSes, start doing the one-finger tap dance on that key as soon as you hit power, to "get there" before POST gets to the point of finding the conflict between what is working, and what it sees in the Setup as being what to expect.

YMMV! Good Luck.