Re: New PCI card - cannot see anything in monitor
- From: "Bob Knowlden" <nkbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:12:56 -0400
At a guess, the PC is using monitor settings that are out of range for the monitor.
Also, if you can disable the onboard video (or at least define the PCI card's video as primary) in the machine's BIOS, that would be helpful.
Boot up in safe mode (tap the F8 key), and set the screen to 800X600 at 60 Hz. (I think that's always safe.) Reboot into XP in normal mode. Change the display settings to better ones. (1280X1024 at 60 Hz for 4:3 17" and 19" LCDs are common.)
It may be helpful to install the monitor drivers (usually on a CD with the monitor, or available for download form the monitor's manufacturer). That will allow you to only choose display settings appropriate to the monitor.
HTH.
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"Bruce" <bruce.james.lee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1174093012.447919.303180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi
I have a VGA (blue) video card port on my machine (onboard video) that
came with it and I have a new PCI video card I bought and installed
(DVI).
Now, I connected the monitor to the new DVI port using the adapter,
installed XP on it. But when XP starts up, I see the boot screen, BIOS
screen etc but after that it just blanks out. If I connect to the old
VGA port and boot, I cannot see anything that happens during boot
time, but XP logon screen comes up later and things work fine.
I have installed the latest video card drivers on my machine, and in
my BIOS settings, I have set it to use the PCI card.
Any idea how I can solve this problem?
Thanks
Bruce
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