OK, here's the deal. I tried to upgrade my comp with a SATA300 PCI adapter & new hard drive. Somehow after doing so, my monitor gets nothing at all from my comp.
I've tried putting everything back as it was, resetting the bios, and pretty much everything else... but no dice.
As a last ditch effort, I bought a GeForce 7300 GS PCI Express card, but that's not working either. Only thing I can think of is that the onboard card needs to be disabled - but I can't get into BIOS or Windows to do so.
Any thoughts, or am I just SOL?
2007-02-11 08:33:50 · 3 answers · asked by wekill3dk3nny 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
if you cannot even get into bios then that typically is a major hardware conflict..i would suggest u pull off your add on graphics card and then boot into bios, disable all your onboard graphics, turn comp off, reinstall your new graphics card MAKING SURE ITS INSTALLED SECURILY, hook up monitor cable and you should be fine~~
2007-02-11 09:11:42 · answer #1 · answered by ~Cindy~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does the computer POST? Does it beep in a series? Does it beep at all? Did you connect the monitor to the correct port on the computer, and to the onboard card not the new PCI-e graphics card? The only other thing that could be wrong is that the southbridge chip on the mobo is no good. If the computer or mobo is still under warranty, get it fixed. Is there a second HDD with your WinXP on it installed on this computer? Is the new SATA hard drive being installed for storage or did your old HDD crash and your replacing it? If you removed the old HDD your WinXP was on there. There is no WinXP on the new drive yet and no drivers for the monitor or anything else on the new drive . You will need a new install of WinXP from the installation CD for the new HDD, if this is the case. You'll have to find all of the mobo drivers online and download them to a CD or floppy/flash drive so you can put them on the computer first. This is where the BIOS will get onto the hard drive.You will also have to reactivate your copy of WinXP through Microsoft.
2007-02-11 09:16:37 · answer #2 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
on start up press the F2 Key and that should get you into the BIOS. If you are still unable to get into the BIOS, open the case and take out the battery for one minute. That will reset the BIOS to the default settings.
Then you should be able to get in the BIOS and change the graphics settings.
2007-02-11 09:18:05 · answer #3 · answered by Herm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋