help me plz. :URGENT: (thx for all ur help. cards in. :).)

ToRaK · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 5:34 pm Post subject:

What kinda mother board/bios do you have? What exactly do the beeps sound like? Does your computer work with the old video card?
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sgt stutter · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 6:12 pm Post subject:

Bobins the same thing happened to me when I insalled a new vid card, monitor did not work and it beeped. Beeps usally mean a video or mem problem. I was also told that I had to disable the on board video before the new video adaptor would be detected. I did that and reinstalled the vid card at least 3 times to make sure it was seated correctly.
Hate to say this but none of the above worked and yes all the cables were plugged in and the card was out of the box

. So I took my card back to the comp shop where I purchased it they tested and found it to be a bad card. They gave me a new one and it worked after the first install.

Good luck and I hope ya get the card to work for ya

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bobins · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 6:39 pm Post subject:

how do you disable the onboard vid card

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sgt stutter · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 7:11 pm Post subject:

This would be helpful.
ToRaK wrote:

BitterBeerFace · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 7:58 pm Post subject:

There's a good chance that on a fairly old motherboard with built-in video, there will be a jumper right by the graphics chip that controls the "enable/disable"...

Usually 3 pins... sadly, they're not labelled well...

sgt stutter · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 2:11 pm Post subject:

bobins did you get the card to work, whats up

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bobins · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 10:59 am Post subject:

YAY. i got the card in.

i had to disable the built in card. cos it was causin a conflict when i put the card into the agp slot.

and i got 50fps... woo hoo

thanks for all your help.

i just got one lil problem now.. which is really buggin me.... when i play tfc.. or any game for that matter... after a short time my comp frezes.

.... only started happenin when i put in the new card... any sugestions on this.

TIA
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DukeNukem · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 12:41 pm Post subject:

Bobins I had a similar problem when I installed my G-Force3 card. Getting the latest Nvidia Drivers helped that. Before the latest drivers I had to play with the Driver's Open_GL settings - not in TFC, but under "Display Properties/Settings"
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sharkbyte · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 1:36 pm Post subject:

Hmmm. I wonder if I would do better at 50 fps than my little ole 30.

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bobins · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 6:35 pm Post subject:

where can i get driver updates then... ???
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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 6:38 pm Post subject:

bobins · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 6:43 pm Post subject:

ta very much brn...

and damn... the latest drivers download is 13.4MB.... thas gonna take a lil while.. i hope it crears up all me probs... *crosses fingers*
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bobins · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 6:50 pm Post subject:

me dont know. im just in heaven rite now.. goin from a frame rate between 5 and 15... to between 40 and 50...

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