well, i have been bulding my computers for a few years now, and i have never run into this problem. i bought a mobo for a new build, and i come to find that it has no onboard video chipset. i should have checked it before hand, but its to late to do anything about it now. So i looked into it, and i found that all i need is a video card. i have an old nvidia fx 5200 pci, just laying around cuz i dont use it anymore, so i put it in and it wouldnt display anything. i put it in a new machine that was already working, and it worked jsut find. so my question is, how can i get this card to work on this machine. the card works fine, as far as i can tell the mobo is fine, so whats the issue. should the card work when i hook it up. is there anythig i am not doing that i should be?
the mobo is an msi 945p neo5 with a a intel 945p north bridge, and an intel ich7 south bridge chipset. all of the other feutures are standard and all of the other componets are compatible and working in other systems. any one have an idea of what i can do?
Well, something else could be wrong with the PC that is preventing it from working. Does the computer beep in any specific kind of pattern when you boot it up? Motherboards have beep codes to help pinpoint faulty hardware.
Actually in the BIOS there is a setting that allows you to set video to the PCI-E slot or the regular PCI slot. All you would need to do is change that and it might work.
Since you are working blind do this. Press del to enter your bios. Give it some time and then press your down arrow 4 times and then press enter. Then press the + key on your keyboard. Then press F10 on your keyboard then press y and then enter.
See if that works, if not then try doing that EXACT same thing again and see if it works then.
