Replaced Gfx card...

MaKo · 11-07-2007, 14:00

Replaced the crapped out (i think) ti4600 gfx card on my old PC to a (equally rubbish, but not faulty) fx5200 64-bit 128mb card. Uninstalled the nvidia display drivers, turned the pc off, swapped the cards out, but now when i turn it on the monitor stays in power save mode and won't show the screen. Now i got the card off a friend for free, so don't really know anything about it...is it the fact it's 64-bit that's the problem? Have i idiotically missed out a simple step? Any help.... ta

11-07-2007, 14:46

your 64 bit card should work in a 32bit o/s just with lower performance. You may need to put your old card back in and install the vga generic driver before you upgrade this to your new cards driver. Put your original card back in, reboot, load the default graphics driver ( will look ****e ) then shutdown. Replace your card with the new one and you should boot up with the default graphics driver and be able to install your nvidia driver from that point.

MaKo · 11-07-2007, 15:17

yeah no worries had a fiddle around and it's working now, ta.

Mars · 11-07-2007, 17:18

i've had cards that have damaged the slot before now,
and motherboards that wouldn't recognise the agp slot,
not had any problems with PCIe though, it's a sweet interface.

Mankind · 11-07-2007, 23:37

The 64-bit probably refers to the memory bus. Nothing to do with Windows being 32 or 64 bit.

Most budget cards these days have a 128 bit memory bus, with 256, 384 and 512 on higher end cards.

MaKo · 15-07-2007, 21:12

Even after replacing the card, which i assumed was the issue, i'm still having problems. The PC is fine when i'm just browsing the net/using Azureus or whatever, but when i run a game such as Zero Hour or UT2k4 the game will start up, run for a bit, then just close itself down. Also bit different with CS:S/hl2 but basically the same: the game will run for a bit then it'll shut down and this time i'll get some error message or another about an illegal operation. Any ideas?

Mankind · 16-07-2007, 00:22

What did you fiddle with to fix it before?

One thing you can do to exclude driver problems is uninstall the card, reboot in safe mode (F8 before windows loads) and run Driver Cleaner Pro (it's free) and remove all NVidia files. Reboot and install the latest drivers.

If that doesn't work the card might be knackered I suppose. You could try searching the net for conflicts between your motherboard and graphics card.