Setting Up Visiontek Video Card (Help Wanted)
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From: Chesapeake and NOVA
Re: Setting Up Visiontek Video Card (Help Wanted)
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.
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.
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Stock Block Killaa
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: VA,NY
Re: Setting Up Visiontek Video Card (Help Wanted)
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.
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.
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Stock Block Killaa
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: VA,NY
Re: Setting Up Visiontek Video Card (Help Wanted)
I sent you a pm with my cell number im in no rush at all and I rather have someone come by that knows that there do because I have no idea to do what you guys said lol
