Video Card Upgrade

Hello,

I am having trouble installing my new video card. I have an Asus A7N266-VM Motherboard with onboard video and have purchased a Geforce MX 4000.

I have gone into the bios and set the Primary VGA Bios to "AGP/VGA Card" and disabled the onboard video in the display properties. Following that I installed the new video card. When I plugged in the moniter cable to the new card, It was not working. I checked to make sure I had good connections and it still would not work.

Please help.

Rob

 

things to check:

Is the card seated properly in the AGP slot?
take it out and put it back in to be sure

Flash to the latest BIOS. http://www.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=A7N266-VM&Type=Latest

are you certain all BIOS options for onboard video are disabled?

I just looked through the manual for your board, and I dont even see an enable/disable onboard video.... weird.

if you have a chance, throw the card into another computer just to see if it will power on (dont let the OS load).

My guess is that its some weird BIOS config, maybe someone else can help you out... but try it in another machine if possible to be sure its not just a Dead card.

 

i used to have that board. you don't have to ugrade the bios...there aren't any new options (i did it too). Primary VGA Bios to "AGP/VGA Card" is the correct setting. Ironically, it was so long ago, I don't remember what I did to get it to work, because it didn't work immediately for me either. I believe, after disabling that option, i saved it, rebooted, and shutdown the pc. Then I powered on the pc, and it worked. so try that, and let us know what happened.

btw, welcome to Major Geeks!

 

Thanks guys.

I tried everything you both said and I have come to the conclusion that it has to be the video card itself. I don't know what else it could be.

Thanks.

 

If you can get a different card, you may want to do that. The Geforce 4 MX 440 is only marginally better than the onboard graphics. You can get a Geforce 4 TI 4200 for not much more.