Vista - Trouble With XFX ATI Radeon HD 4350 512MB

Hello crevitz,
Just a thought, it may be way off but you never know, have you checked the Bios to see what is the primary display adapter ?, i was going to say reseat the card but if you tried it on another computer then that kinda takes care of that, as for the drivers i always go to the ATI site for my drivers, drivers on disks tend to be out of date by the time you get them, also it might be worth checking to see if you have the latest bios, let us know how you get on, good luck.

hm........ the bio's yes....... could check that to
but he doesn't have onboard so that isn't the problem

Yep, it was a shot in the dark, i think if i was him i would boot in safe mode clean out the drivers, use driver cleaner/sweeper and reinstall a fresh set of drivers downloaded from ATI, if nothing else we would know the drivers are clean, what do you think ?. just seems odd that the card is not being picked up by the OS.

I'm reinstalling Windows. The Graphics Card seems to be seated fine in the mobo; Screwed in and secure. I looked around the bios for anything that may be stopping the PCI-E port in any way and didnt find anything obvious to me.

I looked on MSI's website and they have no Bios download links for my Motherboard (Just shows a blank mid-section):

MSI K9N Neo V2

so still nothing? hm....

Well, It ended up being as simple as re-installing Vista. I Made it the first thing i did to install the display drivers i downloaded form the AMD Website. and they worked and i have now got The graphics at full potential and with pretty Aeroglass .

But it still doesnt really explain why it wasnt working in the first place. The install seemed to go without a hitch. But i dunno lol. Thank You Pizzaman and Stoneys_Nutz for taking the time to ponder over it.


THANK YOU!

Glad you got it sorted m8.

great to hear and its something to do with adding hardware...... vista is weird about stuff like that sometimes

Cant leave this out, but I once had a problem like this, turned out to be a faulty card.
If the reinstall doesn't work, You should RMA the card if you can.