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Hey guys,
Wondered if anyone can help.
I bought a new graphics card for my computer.
The computer is an Advent running windows 7, 3gb ram and a built in graphics card jobbie.
To run some of the photo software I needed a 256mb open gl graphics card.
I bought an MSI 1gb nvidia pcie card that supposedly should run ok.
I put the card in the pcie slot and turned the PC back on but it just kept stopping half way through start up and then trying to start again. This means I can't put the drivers for it on.
Any ideas.
Cheers
Dean.
 
Depends how your software disc works, might be as easy as running the disk and then putting in the new card.
 
Start in safe mode by pressing F8 during startup? Should boot up even without the proper drivers being installed though.
Try a different pcie slot if you can?
Can you post a link to the graphics card? Just thinking it might need a dedicated power supply rather than getting it from the pcie slot.
 
Do you briefly see a blue screen before it starts again?

Revert back to the old graphics card, uninstall the old driver and install the new driver then install the new card.

See if that works.
 
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My guess is you'll have to go into the BIOS and give graphics card priority to the PCIe card. It will probably be defaulting to onboard as the primary graphics adapter.
 
Thanks for the replies.
This is the card-
http://biSPAM/1fKREFY

On starting, the screen shows the Advent logo then shows a black screen with a line of text at the top saying something about pcie, then the screen goes black again with lots of white text, this is normal, but then the screen goes black and it all starts again. I tried changing the settings from built in card to pcie using the Del key during start up, but it make no difference.
There is no power supply to the card, so I'm wondering if my PC power supply is up to the job.
Cheers
Dean
 
The last time I had a graphics card fail it would work fine on VGA (as used to display the bios info at boot up) but would crash to a screen full of noise as soon as it tried to display at higher resolution. Yours is sounding like something similar so it could just be a faulty card. Maybe you could try booting to a CD or usb stick with a Linux version that doesn't need to install so you can eliminate your windows install as causing the fault in which case it is either the card faulty or some bios settings problem.
 
Did you have another graphics card installed prior to this one?
 
The graphics card I used before was a built in jobbie.
Last night I managed to start the computer, make it recognise the new card and install the drivers for it but on restart it just wouldn't boot up.
I checked the power supply unit to see the spec and it falls short of the minimum required for the new card.
I'm gonna buy a new power supply with more guts and then try again.
It all came about because my OnOne software stopped working so I downloaded the new one from the site and it wouldn't run on the on board graphics.
Cheers for all the help.
Will update as soon as I get it going.
Dean.
 
Power supply may be faulty as well as not meeting specs for it not to run that, can't be a massive draw as its a low end passively cooled card.
I'm using a 300w power supply in a small form factor PC and its happy running a 95w CPU, a HDD and an SSD and a mid range graphics card.
Get the best power supply you can afford for a bit of future proofing.
 
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