Video card not working when trying to replace broken video card. suggestons?

Hey answers,



I'm helping my buddy repair his broken computer. His old video card (geforce 6600) had fried, so he bought a new one. We booted from the onboard video and uninstalled the old drivers for the 6600. I put the new card (geforce 9500gt) into the computer and tried booting, nothing happened. everything turned on, fans were spinning, nothing came up on the monitor. So I tried booting back into the onboard video, uhoh! the onboard video won't work while the new card is in! so we had to take the card back out to boot into the onboard and go into the bios. Nothing of use in the bios. Now we're both stumped and ready to call a technician.



I'm thinking that I could manually install the drivers for the 9500 while on the onboard video and then try booting with the new card but something in my gut says that will end in disaster.



I'm about stumped right now. Any advice guys?



Thanks for reading, have a good one.|||Disable onboard video

turn off computer

install new video card

turn computer back on|||Actually your guess is right. At least as far as it worked for me once. Start from onboard, load up drivers, then shutdown, install new piece. The start it and system should find it and tell it to look for drivers or put them somewhere like a folder in c drive and tell it to go there. Its just installing more drivers not taking off the onboard one. After u can disable on board if possible.|||You say that you can shut off the onboard video, so you must have a choice in the Bios. You should be able to access the bios and change it back to whatever you want. So if you disable the onboard and then install the new card, it should work, providing you have the drivers for the new card already installed.

I would

First, install the new card drivers, then disable the on board video, then install the new card, and try starting up. If it don't work, get back into bios and re enable on board.