Hey people I need some help and was wondering if anyone that is familiar with computers to come by my house and help setup my visiontek x1300 pci video card I bought it off a guy from this forum and he said he was going to come by and help me set it up but never heard from him again.I also bought a dvi wire to use with my samsung syncmaster 940b monitor.I installed the hardware and the card inside my computer but I can't seem to get it to work and set everything up.So can someone swing by my house I live in Chesapeake on sparrow rd so you have a idea where I live and if you can it to work ill buy you lunch.Let me know if you need anymore info

 

Was there a video card in the machine before hand?

 

I don't think so.

 

If you want to wait until the weekend, I can come over and take a look. Is it a PCI-express or just PCI card? Do you have the drivers for the card? It should be a pretty simple install. Let me know.

 

Im in no rush at all I don't mind waiting.But its just a pci card which I already installed in the computer and I installed the driver too i njust need help setting it up like all the settings and to get it to work with the dvi wire not the vga one.

 

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Questions for you

1. Are you certain that it is PCI? It could be PCI, AGP, or PCI-E.

2. Do you have any video signal at all when you turn the computer on?

3. Where did your monitor used to plug in, and where does it plug in now? Can you take a picture of the back of the case?

4. Does the computer make any strange beeps when it turns on?

5. What kind of plug is on the monitor? Is it VGA, or is it DVI? If you don't know, snap a pic of it.

 

1. I'm pretty sure its a pci I took some pics for you.

2. I don't have a video signal when I use the dvi wire from the monitor to the video card,it only works the regular way with the vga wire to the computer you can see in the pics.

3.I took pics for you.

4.It doesn't make any strange beeps when it turns on everything sounds normal to me,im not to great with this stuff thats why I would like someone that knows what there doing to swing by lol

5.It has both vga and dvi

Sorry about the crappy pics it was taking with my phone and I used a flashlight because its dark in my room and under my desk.Let me know thanks.

 

From your pictures, it appears that you still have a vga cable running from the on board video on the motherboard to the monitor, as well as a dvi cable running from the videocard to the monitor. Now, if you are getting a signal from the onboard vga, it means that your bios did not automatically turn off the onboard when you plugged in the new video card. That makes sense if it is a pci card. A pci-e or agp being plugged in to its corresponding slot would automatically shut down the on board video.

If you are not comfortable, you may want to get a friend who is familiar to do this for you. You need to go in to the bios, and shut down the onboard video manually. At the same time, you also need to make sure that the bios can see the video card plugged in to the pci slot and recognizes that it is video. It is important that you are positive that you have set the pci card as the video source before you let the computer reboot after deactivating the on board video.