I cannot boot my pc after having inserted a tv card: XFX Geforce. This replaced the previous video card. The pc comes on and I do get beeps although I get a nasty long one early on. Removing new card and re inserting old has same result. The XFX manual, short as it is, gave a graphics software removal procedure that did not seem to pertain to Windows XP which I have. It wanted me to go into Display/Settings/Advanced/Adapter/Change and then choose 'Show all hardware' before restarting PC. As I could not find this procedure in Control Panel I just went to Add/Remove Programs instead. Then I removed Invidia graphics/video driver stuff, not being sure whether I should also be removing, separately, PCI video (drivers?) if I remember the name correctly. Now I am not sure whether the Invidia stuff I removed was put on the machine by me from CD after purchase of tv card 9 months ago or was already on machine for years before. But Nvidia is certainly the name of the cd/s'ware that came with card. Once I had removed the old card, I became unsure of which slot I had removed it from, but I think it was the black one towards the top, leaving a spare slot between that and the grey ones underneath. A funny thing is that the 'manual' says that black slots are ISA and should not be used. It says the correct slot is either PCI (White) or AGP (Brown). These terms mean nothing to me and I am not pc literate technically in terms of the inner workings. The new card will go into either the black slot I believe the old one came from, OR the next grey one (but one) below, although the old card will only go back into the black one. Can damage be caused by using wrong slots and booting? I don't really know what I am doing. I am using a different machine at the library to do this post. Exasperatedly, Paul
yeah, thats correct but it need to be set to the "Standard VGA Adaptor" (something like that)[ot]before changing the grfx card[/ot] can you please post an url to the exact grfx card you've got, or can you post a pic of the card ISA = Industry Standard Architecture & it is now old, PCI = Peripheral Component Interconnect, AGP = Accelerated / Advanced Graphis Port the newest is PCIe (PCI Express) the card will only phyisically fit into 1 slot type the system will not boot without a graphics card
yeah but google brings up AGP & PCI cards, and not ISA cards, & you said you thought it was ISA, Savage4 cards were first brought out on a PCI bus, so it can't be an ISA card [ot]i'd prefer to problem solve in the forums, because i may be wrong & others can correct me[/ot] Edit: right we've established that the grfx card is not ISA so it must be either AGP or PCI, what is the make and model of the motherboard and hopefully a revison number (usually printed on the motherboard, or printed on the BIOS chip (big chip usually with a reflective lable, near the battery)[ot]took me a while to re-find your thread[/ot]
