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Old September 28th, 2006, 11:46 AM
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Question Video problem

Maybe someone can offer a simple suggestion to solve a problem I'm having.

Lightning strike fried my Video card, (nVidea G-Force MX4400 AGP). So I went and bought a replacement card, (nVidea G-Force MX5200 AGP).

I installed the card, booted up and selected monitor 2 and checked "extend this monitor as secondary display". Then I rebooted and when windows was booting I got the boot screen on both monitors but I get nothing when windows is finished booting. No desktop graphics. The only reason I can think of is, maybe my Bios chip needs updated to be compatible with new video card technology or something. I will be doing some more testing this evening but, if anyone has any suggestions as to what my problem might be I would be grateful. I have read a lot of posts through the years about video problems and someone is usually always able to offer suggestions to solve the issue.

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Old September 28th, 2006, 12:46 PM
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Boot The Windows In Safe Mode, And Change The Video Setting To Regular Vga, Then It Should Come Up. You Can Then Boot Up, And Install The Drivers Ect.
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Old September 28th, 2006, 02:33 PM
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Thanks gduns, i'll try that this evening. Appreciate it.
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Old September 28th, 2006, 07:50 PM
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gduns,

Guess what my problem was!!

OK, my old cards primary out was vga out, and secondary was dvi or s-vid.
My new cards primary out is dvi and secondary is vga or s-vid.
All I really had to do was switch my cables on the back of my computer.

That is probably something I can change internally in the computer but I guess that as dvi enabled monitors are increasing the card mfr's are making dvi the primary monitor.

Thanks for your help and just wanted to bring you an update so if this happens to anyone else you'll have a heads up.

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Old September 29th, 2006, 07:54 AM
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Really It is simpler than that. Your video card senses what is attached. turn off computer, and unplug all monitors. plug in only the monitor you want for the primary monitor, and boot up. it will only enable just that monitor. after it is up and running, then puug in the second monitor and boot up. it will then make it the secondary monitor.

I forgot, but I have had to do this.
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Old September 29th, 2006, 09:21 AM
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Yeah, my problem from the beginning may have been that I had both monitors plugged in and on, everytime I booted. Now that I think about it when I did an identify monitors my computer monitor was #1 so that couldn't have been the entire problem.

I took it down to Best Buy and they did some clicking around in the cards properties window but I didn't see them change anything that I didn't try so bottom line was when they switched the dvi to be the primary monitor things started working. Maybe I'll never really know what happened exactly but it's working now and I'm happy.

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