Install additional graphic card?

Question

I got a Compaq desktop with a built in video card

Now I am trying to install another video card, Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT, I plugged into the PCI slot and installed the driver for xp, but the screen became half black and half red when I connected the monitor with the new video card.

Then I went to the display property, and it says the current graphic display driver cannot be used since it was written for previous version of Windows. And it asks me to get a updated driver.

1. My computer is running Windows XP Media Certer Edition. Is it right to choose the driver for Windows 2000/XP while installing the driver?

2. Where can I find a update for the driver, is it possible the driver in the disc outdated? I just bought it yesterday! I tried the Nvidia web but cannot find any update for this driver.

3. In the device manager under display adaper, it says the item "Nvidia Geforce 6600" is working well, but why I can use it?

4. Shall I goto BIOS and disable the default output? But I am worried about the screen would become only black and red, and I would have no way to recover it.

Now my concern is that the new graphic card cannot show anything. If I goto Bios and disable the default output, the screen will not show anything and then I will not be able to use the computer, since I cannot see the computer through the monitor. How can I change the bios back to default?

There is no AGP slot in my board, only one PCI slot is available. So it means that I need a PCI graphic card, right?

Answer 1

in the device manager open up the device info and go to driver and click on update driver, be connected to the internet when you do this and it will search the web for the latest driver, also in the bios disable the on board grafics if it doesnt do it auto

Answer 2

1) Take the card back out and put it back in. turn it on and see what it does.
2) If that doesnt work reinstall the video card software.
3) If that doesnt work, then download whatever current driver they have even if it is the same. The driver could be bad from the disk.
4) If that doesnt work then take your video card back and exchange it for a new one..

Answer 3

particular you are able to! in case you will come across the thank you to attach a fan directly to the cardboard then there is not any subject there. additionally a gpu fan usually has 2 pin connector yet a cpu fan has 3 pin connector which has 3 wires: black-minus, purple-plus, yellow-that's the twine that reflects cpu rpm data which permits a working laptop or computing device to detect no count if a fan is spinning or no longer, so as a manner to attach and connect a cpu fan directly to the pics card you're able to shrink off the yellow twine and shrink the connector to the size so it might greater wholesome's interior the two pin connector. sturdy success with the DIY! I truthfully have been working with computing device hardware for a protracted time and there is no longer something in my computing device that i've got no longer replaced on my own :)