Re: New PCI card - cannot see anything in monitor

Thanks Bob and Oksana. I went to device manager, disabled my onboard
graphics adapter, rebooted my box, set my PCI card as default in my
BIOS and everything is working fine now! I thought initially that
changing the BIOS setting alone is enough, but it is apparently not.

Thanks for the help.

Ganesh

On Mar 16, 6:12 pm, "Bob Knowlden" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn to reply.

"Bruce" <bruce.james....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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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- Hide quoted text -

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