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Oh please help me!

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Kyler

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Hi guys, I am kinda in trouble here.

Bought a PCI Radeon 9000 couple of days ago. Installed it, everything working fine for 2 days and then just now I turn my computer on and monitor is not responding to the card. The monitors on the light just keep flashing as if it's an error sign or something.

When unplugging the card from the pci slot and booting up, everything works fine as it reverts to running off the integrated on-board graphics.

I tried checking the conneciton and changing the PCI slot but this did nothing. And tech support of where I bought the card (which is an hours drive away) said that they can't help me unless they see the computer, and he can't say if it's a graphics card problem or not.

Any ideas? I don't have another computer to check it on but like I said, everything else is working fine. Please give any advice to what it might be or things I could try...

Thanks
 
More info: I tried in it my old 166 and it did not respond. Whether or not this is because the motherboard is too old I don't know but I thought I'd give it a go anyway.
 
Did you do anything special to disable your on-board graphics?
A setting in the BIOS, or a jumper on the motherboard?
When the PCI card isn't working, is it possible to plug your monitor into the on-board graphics port?
Perhaps naming your motherboard would help people help you.
 
I'm not sure of the motherboard but its a Hewlart Packard pc "hp pavilion 500a". Celeron 1.2, 256ram blah blah...

When I first installed it, it was basically plug and play. Shut down the pc, installed the 9000, plugged the monitor into the 9000, booted up and it worked. Since then it has been turned off and on several times and I installed latest drivers both ati and dx9. It was just this morning however that it decided not to work.

What happens is all of the lights on the monitor start blinking and the screen stays blank. (monitor: hp pavilion v50c) When this happens I have to shut it down, pull out the PCI 9000, change the monitor back to the mobo, then reboot and everything works as if nothing ever happened. (except I can't play 3d games anymore)

*sigh* Saturday morning, all I wanted was a peaceful day of playing nwn and freelancer.
 
For anyones information the card was faulty. I took it back and got an immediate replacement. But that's another story......

Also, why would I need to disable onboard if it had been working for 2 days? As I understand, it checks for PCI video before reverting to onboard.

ps. The new card was even more screwed... but I made another post about that.
 
Originally posted by: Kyler
For anyones information the card was faulty. I took it back and got an immediate replacement. But that's another story......

Also, why would I need to disable onboard if it had been working for 2 days? As I understand, it checks for PCI video before reverting to onboard.

ps. The new card was even more screwed... but I made another post about that.
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i was getting ready to say that the odds were seriously for it being a bad card

ive had a couple bad agp cards, just died after working for a time. quite a pain in the ass
 
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