Trouble Installing a 3d Video Card

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Hi I posted this message on a differnt board about the similar thing but i
thort this was more acurate considering it an xp problem I hope to get an
awnser to my worries

I have tried installing a video card on my pc again because I had one
installed and working prior to when I reinstaled windows xp with sp2 because
my system crashed, since then i havnt been able to get it to work because it
always restarts what is happening is it loads up as if its working found new
hard ware wizard installs it but then it finds somthing else that is PCI S3
Graphics Prosavage i think thats the one that runs off the mother board but
anyway then after this has been displayed for a couple of seconds my computer
scrren go's blank and my comuter resets itself sometimes the screen just go's
blank but not to often i have got two video cards ones a Nivada not sure what
it is it used to work in my pc n/p and the othe is a Matrox Mellenium II both
i have tried and they start up until the found new hard ware wizards trys to
instal the default video thing... um i have tried disableing the s3 Graphics
Prosavage and going into the display propeties clicking on troubleshoot and
even turning the hardware acceleration off but the same thing happend can
someone please help me out thank you..
 
With onboard graphics,boot to xp w/o the add-in card (run board graphics),once
its up and running,open device mgr,display adapter,expand the tree,R.click on
it select,uninstall,(do not restart computer),close out,shutdown pc.Install
add in
card,start pc,set BIOS for card,once in xp,exit new hardware wizard,reopen
device mgr,uninstall on board,exit device,install drivers/software for new
card,
once thru,restart computer.Youre now set up with both.....
 
Hi I tried doing what you told me to do though that bios part has got me
confused and im not sure what you mean, I keep getting the same problem
detected new hardware wizard shows up instaling S3 Graphics ProSavage 8A26
then the screen go's blank and restarts i cant exit the wizard so I don't
know what to do how do i stop it?
 
Este es Difical,
How did youb get it working again? I am having the same problem that you
had ! Can you help?
 
hey i had to beat the clock and disable the online graphics board before it
was auto detected and auto installed again after alredy instaling the 3d
graphics card and having the computer reboot to disable it click on the start
bar at the botem right of your screen and go to administrative tools and
select computer managment then down the list select device manager and then
display adapters and disable the online graphics and if nesercery go to
action and select scan for hardware changes and your graphics card should
then be detected and instaled thats how i done it hope this helps cheers if
you can't get into administrative tools throught the start menue try and find
it somewhere else on your computer and i hope you beat the time before your
computer restarts hopfully it wont take so long for your computer to load
like mine did you gota be quick all the best.
 
Este Es Difical said:
Hi I posted this message on a differnt board about the similar thing but i
thort this was more acurate considering it an xp problem I hope to get an
awnser to my worries

I have tried installing a video card on my pc again because I had one
installed and working prior to when I reinstaled windows xp with sp2 because
my system crashed, since then i havnt been able to get it to work because it
always restarts what is happening is it loads up as if its working found new
hard ware wizard installs it but then it finds somthing else that is PCI S3
Graphics Prosavage i think thats the one that runs off the mother board but
anyway then after this has been displayed for a couple of seconds my computer
scrren go's blank and my comuter resets itself sometimes the screen just go's
blank but not to often i have got two video cards ones a Nivada not sure what
it is it used to work in my pc n/p and the othe is a Matrox Mellenium II both
i have tried and they start up until the found new hard ware wizards trys to
instal the default video thing... um i have tried disableing the s3 Graphics
Prosavage and going into the display propeties clicking on troubleshoot and
even turning the hardware acceleration off but the same thing happend can
someone please help me out thank you..
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hey i had to beat the clock and disable the online graphics board before it
was auto detected and auto installed again after alredy instaling the 3d
graphics card and having the computer reboot to disable it click on the start
bar at the botem right of your screen and go to administrative tools and
select computer managment then down the list select device manager and then
display adapters and disable the online graphics and if nesercery go to
action and select scan for hardware changes and your graphics card should
then be detected and instaled thats how i done it hope this helps cheers if
you can't get into administrative tools throught the start menue try and find
it somewhere else on your computer and i hope you beat the time before your
computer restarts hopfully it wont take so long for your computer to load
like mine did you gota be quick all the best.
 
hey i had to beat the clock and disable the online graphics board before it
was auto detected and auto installed again after alredy instaling the 3d
graphics card and having the computer reboot to disable it click on the start
bar at the botem right of your screen and go to administrative tools and
select computer managment then down the list select device manager and then
display adapters and disable the online graphics and if nesercery go to
action and select scan for hardware changes and your graphics card should
then be detected and instaled thats how i done it hope this helps cheers if
you can't get into administrative tools throught the start menue try and find
it somewhere else on your computer and i hope you beat the time before your
computer restarts hopfully it wont take so long for your computer to load
like mine did you gota be quick all the best.
 
hey i had to beat the clock and disable the online graphics board before it
was auto detected and auto installed again after alredy instaling the 3d
graphics card and having the computer reboot to disable it click on the start
bar at the botem right of your screen and go to administrative tools and
select computer managment then down the list select device manager and then
display adapters and disable the online graphics and if nesercery go to
action and select scan for hardware changes and your graphics card should
then be detected and instaled thats how i done it hope this helps cheers if
you can't get into administrative tools throught the start menue try and find
it somewhere else on your computer and i hope you beat the time before your
computer restarts hopfully it wont take so long for your computer to load
like mine did you gota be quick all the best.
 
Este Es Difical said:
hey i had to beat the clock and disable the online graphics board before
it
was auto detected and auto installed again after alredy instaling the 3d
...
Click to expand...

Do you know how to use punctuation? While you're at it, why not use all
upper case too.
 
Ok I kinda understand what you are saying, but not about beating the clock.
How can I beat the clock before startup? There is no screen yet to see. I
know how to disable the onboard card. I was told that I do that, shut the
computer down insert the card and then the computer auto detects it. Which it
does, because at startup I can see its reading the card.

but now when it comes up the screen is really slow, when I move windows
around it re-draws reallyslow. And its acting like I have a second monitor
hooked up so I cant see the other half of my desktop. I only have one
monitor hooked up, but its acting like I have two and I cant get it to stop
doing that.

Any suggestions?
 
Ok I kinda understand what you are saying, but not about beating the clock.
How can I beat the clock before startup? There is no screen yet to see. I
know how to disable the onboard card. I was told that I do that, shut the
computer down insert the card and then the computer auto detects it. Which it
does, because at startup I can see its reading the card.

but now when it comes up the screen is really slow, when I move windows
around it re-draws reallyslow. And its acting like I have a second monitor
hooked up so I cant see the other half of my desktop. I only have one
monitor hooked up, but its acting like I have two and I cant get it to stop
doing that.

Any suggestions?
 
You need to go into the computer BIOS settings and disable the onboard video there first, then
Windows will never even see that it exists. Install the updated video card drivers from the
manufacturer of the video card and you should be all set.
 
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