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May 21st, 2009, 02:52 PM
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| Need help with installing graphics card
hi,
i have a very Old PC , i recently bought a LCD monitor, and hence had to get a graphics card. i own a ECS P4VMM2 motherboard. this has an AGP 4x slot and PCI slots. i got ATI radeon 9250 (250MB) card for this mother board from a friend. I tried installing but i get an error saying "Setup was unable to find components that can be installed on ur current Hardwate or software configuration". This mother moard has a S3 pro DDR card inbuilt. The steps i follwed to install.
1.Downloaded driver from website.
2. Swithced off the PC and inserted card in AGP slot
3. Switched ON the PC and and installed the Driver previously downloaded.
Its during step 3 that i get this error.
Is there something that i have to adjust in BIOS?
As this is my first time i dont have much clue with this. Pls help
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May 21st, 2009, 02:59 PM
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Welcome to techimo. 
Did you uninstal the old drivers before installing the new ones?
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May 21st, 2009, 03:16 PM
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Thanks for the welcome
No i havent, i have one doubt regarding this. S3 pro DDR is inbuilt to my mother board and i dont really have motherboard CD or driver, so if i delete it and by chance ATI card also doest work would i end up without a display ??  | |
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May 21st, 2009, 03:20 PM
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Well from what you have descirbed you are already getting the display on the new card. You will have to uninstal old drivers from the onboard graphics.
If for some reason it goes wrong you can download old drivers from motherboard/graphics manufacture website. So dont worry.  | |
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May 21st, 2009, 03:28 PM
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No my monitor is still plugged to the VGA connector of my mother board and not the card. if i cannect it to the ATI card monitor goes blank  | |
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May 21st, 2009, 03:37 PM
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1.Downloaded driver from website.
2. Swithced off the PC and inserted card in AGP slot
3. Switched ON the PC and and installed the Driver previously downloaded.
Its during step 3 that i get this error.
| Okay now I get this you inserted card in slot but left cable in motherboard.
You proberly need to disable on-board graphics which can be found in the BIOS. | |
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May 21st, 2009, 03:45 PM
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so then i dont need to uninstall s3 pro savage ddr driver? | |
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May 21st, 2009, 03:48 PM
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You will need to uninstal those drivers regardless as they will interfere with the ones you are trying to install. | |
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May 21st, 2009, 03:58 PM
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Welcome to TechIMO.
I agree with Aaron. You need to uninstall the old graphics driver from the onboard graphics. After you do that, shut down the PC, install the new GPU. Then plug your monitor cable into the new graphics card. Start up your PC, go to BIOS, disable the onboard graphics, restart again. Should have a screen from the new GPU, go into windows then install the new drivers.
Windows automatically installs default drivers, just to get the hardware working so you can install the drivers. So no matter what, you'll be able to go back to your onboard should something go wrong.  | |
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May 21st, 2009, 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by KarmaKiller  Welcome to TechIMO. | thanks for the welcome
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Originally Posted by KarmaKiller I agree with Aaron. You need to uninstall the old graphics driver from the onboard graphics. After you do that, shut down the PC, install the new GPU. Then plug your monitor cable into the new graphics card. Start up your PC, go to BIOS, disable the onboard graphics, restart again. Should have a screen from the new GPU, go into windows then install the new drivers.
Windows automatically installs default drivers, just to get the hardware working so you can install the drivers. So no matter what, you'll be able to go back to your onboard should something go wrong. |
i guess what software i was installing was not the right one for my card. i downloaded another one and this seemed to complete installation, but i still didnt get any display frpm GPU. so i decided to follow ur instructions.
1. Deleted ATI driver
2. uninstalled from device manager inbuilt card driver
3. turned system off
4. Plugged in GPU
5. connected monitor cable to GPU's vga connector
6. Switched on the PC (in a hope that i can press DEL , enter BIOS and do the necessary settings)
BUT!!! there was no display on my monitor
i am using a via p4vm266 chipset
in the below thread i had read about a conflict of via and ati
ATI catalyst trouble! Can somebody please help me? - TechSpot Troubleshooting
so tried out some things mentioned there like removing VIA CPU to Agp 2.0/3.0 driver but even that doest seem to help
any more suggestions? | |
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