Video card installation Acer T180 with XP

I'm reanimating a friend's discarded Acer T180 desktop. I've done a fresh install of XP.

I would like to install a Radeon HD 2600 Pro video card, but I'm running into problems.

I don't have the manufacturer's installation disk for the card. I've downloaded a driver that I think is the right one. (the driver folder is called AMD_RV670_8.43_XP_BR50244_Oct31 if that's of any use)

When I run the setup for this driver, I get an error message advising "setup was unable to find components that can be installed on your current hardware or software configuration." Which kinda makes sense since I don't have the card slotted into the motherboard.

However, when I do slot the card in and start the comp, I get nothing but black screen and 'no input, so powersaving' on monitor.

I'm attaching everest report since I've seen that requested on other issues on the site.

Big thanks in advance for any help with this issue.

 

How many watts is the power supply in the comptuer? I think it may be a power issue but that card doesn't' use much power. The card could also be broken.

 

I'm at work, so I don't have the power supply specs.

I was able to slot the card and still get on board video to work. The bios was set to go to pci first for video.

So, with the card slotted, I was able to install the driver noted above.

I'm still having problems though. My monitor still doesn't show anything when I plug it into the card. Also, when I tried to change the resolution settings in windows, the comp restarted, and then went into looping restarts.

 

Hi,

No driver is required until the driver is loaded. Boot always uses a low res driver from the BIOS and Windows will do the same when it takes over. Sounds like the card is bad or PCLover is right on.

Good Luck, Jim

 

Thanks for the responses so far.

How can I determine if the card is bad?

 

Try it in another pc