geforce 8400 on vista

Well I decided to get a graphics card for my vista basic 32 bit computer. I Put the graphics card in and i boot up my computer and it goes blank, thats it nothing happens. Do I have to install the drivers before? Or whats wrong

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New problem

also i have an intel chipset in my computer do i need to uninstall that?

cookeh said:

alright well i switched the settings and put my graphics card in and booted up my computer, successfully my computer has booted up. Oh and just throwing this out there, there was no off feature, there was Peg and VGA and since my card said VGA, I went with VGA.

Now I have another problem, my computer can't detect the graphics card?

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No, but what was in the computer before?

Most likely you have an onboard, so you just need to go into the bios, and ensure the card is first boot.

Patonb said:

No, but what was in the computer before?

Most likely you have an onboard, so you just need to go into the bios, and ensure the card is first boot.

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nothing was in the computer before, it only came with a built in graphics intel media accelerator driver. and what do you mean the card is first boot?

Hi,

What I think you need to do is to de-activate the onboard graphics in the BIOS & ensure the newly installed card is selected as the first graphics activation option in the BIOS too.

hey sorry im not all tech with the computer but the bios is a chip right? where would i go on disabling the onboard graphics and make the first graphics activation option in the bios?

The bios is the computer that starts the computer... You need to hit delete, or escape when you boot up.

Here's amn article on how:
how to get to BIOS on emachines? - CNET Desktops Forums

Then your going to have to find the onboard video section. Take pictures of the screens if you can and we can help more.

Ok here are pictures of my bios, i took pictures of what i thought would be important
please note that im trying to install a 8400 gs graphics card, and when i turn my computer on with my graphics card inside my computer, my screen stays black, and beeps once. When I take it out, it works all normal. Also I haven't installed it obviously because my computer wont boot up when my card is in.

the bios screen:



the advanced chipset settings (i have intel right now)



pnp/pci configurations:


and the advanced bios features:


hope you all can help me out

cookeh said:

Also I haven't installed it obviously because my computer wont boot up when my card is in.

the bios screen:

hope you all can help me out

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Hi,

Change the top picture PEG/on chip VGA control from auto to off & that should do it.

Give it a go & come back to us. OK?

Just to let you know, 1 beep means all is good. Switch up the setting that lottie showed, i'm certain that its just a misconfig with the onboard.

alright well i switched the settings and put my graphics card in and booted up my computer, successfully my computer has booted up. Oh and just throwing this out there, there was no off feature, there was Peg and VGA and since my card said VGA, I went with VGA.

Now I have another problem, my computer can't detect the graphics card?

also i have an intel chipset in my computer under display adapters, do i need to uninstall that? when i uninstall it, it goes to vga (did it before) a driver i think it comes with if none are detected. and the intel one is the updated version of the vga

No, you don't need to uninstall it.

I don't know why it's not detecing the driver though. Have you tried going to Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers and try auto detect.

Patonb said:

No, you don't need to uninstall it.

I don't know why it's not detecing the driver though. Have you tried going to Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers and try auto detect.

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yeah i have and it cant detect either, i tried my cd and i tried to go to the website and chose my card manually, could it be something in the bios that needs to be activated?

I think that my pc isnt recognizing it at all when i put it in, my fan runs and everything (for the graphics card), there has to be a solution i hope...

Hi,


Have a look in the "Integrated Peripherals" part in the BIOS for the de-activation of the integral graphics.

hey lotties I took some more pictures of my bios because I cant understand what you're trying to say here

so heres whats in my integrated peripherals

Integrated Peripherals:


Onchip IDE device:



OnBoard Device:


SuperIO Device:



Also i went into the PnP/PCI configurations in case you want to look at that, I noticed the maximum play load size at 128, dunno if that means anything but i can change it up to 4068, somewhere around there.

OK,

What version of Phoenix BIOS do you have? It is easy to know what you are looking for when the machine is in front of you but not so like this!

What exact model of an emachine do you have? This information will help us track down the correct solution for you.

alright sorry

here is my system info

Hi,

It appears you have the latest Bios.

Could you please let me have the exact model number for this PC?

Look here & guide me please: -

http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/getFile.asp?id=21988&dscr=BIOS%20ECS%20uBTX%20Motherboard%20With%20Intel(r)%20945GVersion%204GC3112G&uid=319929078

Hey the model is in the picture, its T series T3656, desktop computer.

Also gateway has made way more models for this trust me, hold on a second il find a picture and stuff for it

ok here it is

http://support.gateway.com/us/en/emac/product/default.aspx?tab=1&modelId=1587

i also now have 2 GB of ram