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New Graphics Card problems

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redlava

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Just bought a new graphics card. I am going from a PCI card to a 4x/8x AGP (Sapphire Radeon X1650 Pro). The AGP slot I have in my computer is a 2x/4x slot. First off, the person I talked to said it would work. Was he wrong? Cause that would explain everything.

Moving along. I have it installed, the display drivers from my old card are uninstalled and the old card is removed. And as far as I can tell it is seated properly in the slot. It has to be hooked up to the power supply so I unhooked my floppy drive and used that power connection.

When all of my cables were hooked up, I turned on the juice and the monitor wouldn't work. Windows would not recognize any new hardware either. Will I have to upgrade my BIOS as well? It hasn't been upgraded since I had the computer built about 3 years ago. Or is there possibly something else wrong.


Thanks for any help.
 
with old stuff anything can happen...
the only advice i have is to make sure that there isn't a setting in BIOS that dtermines whether to use the PCI or AGP for graphics. I know a lot of boards have that and it makes a difference if it isn't set to the right one!
 
Your mobo may not be supplying the correct AGP voltages to the AGP slot if it is an older model. Check the documentation on your mobo and New vid card and see if they are compatible. Also do a search on Google for [ AGP voltages ], that may help you solve your problem. Good luck.
 
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