Driver/Monitor problem

[Henke]

Hi guys,

Thanks to all those who replied to my last thread about my graphics card.

I've been trying to get my graphics card up and running for some time now, with no joy. I put it into my computer, connect the monitor to the back of it, power the computer up and..........my desktop looks as if it has been put under a magnifier, with all the desktop icons rather enlarged, and I am not able to see far enough down the screen to get access to my 'start' button to get into my 'control panel' to see if I can adjust things there. Also, by playing about with things, I was able to discover that the monitor graphics are still being driven by the original card in the machine, and not by the graphics card I just fitted. I have the driver for the 'new' graphics card on a CD - it isn't the original CD but one that I burned the driver onto from a website - but when I open up the zip file within, what I should click on to get the driver to 'load' isn't obvious - there are just a load of different files.

In the end I am forced to remove my card (I have tried it in a few slots, to no avail) and reconnect the monitor to its original connection in the back of the computer, so that I can get access to the 'start' button.

The card is a rather old MX420 (AGP), but if anyone could provide guidance about whether I need to adjust the display settings or not, how to get my computer to recognise the new card (it may already do, but I just can't see this because it may be appearing at the bottom of the screen out of sight), how to get my driver to work, etc, etc, I'd be most grateful.

Thanks

Henke

 

[FarFarAway]

The board you have has onboard graphics?

If so you need to go into the BIOS and find the setting that lets you turn the onboard GPU off

 

[Henke]

Kempez,

I'm a bit worried in case I get into the situation where I turn the original graphics off and this renders my monitor unreadable, which would prevent me from doing stuff to set up the driver for the new graphics card....... a chicken or egg problem, if you will.

However, I know there must be a correct order to do this. Do you have any idea of the correct procedure to do this i.e. copy my original graphics card driver onto a cd, then delete or 'turn off' (how exactly?) this original driver, put my new graphics driver into the cd drive and load it up.

How do I get to my BIOS?

Cheers

Henke

ps It is an open house for help from anybody

 

[FarFarAway]

Well if you've turned off the onboard GPU, then you should see the screen with no problems and you can download the driver direct from the website at that point and run it

 

[Henke]

Apologies if I appear to be a fud, but how exactly do you turn off the GPU?

Regards

My system at present:

Dell Dimension 2400

Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHZ

MS Windows XP SP2

512MB RAM

Intel(R) 82845 G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller

34.40 GB Hard Drive free space

Bus Clock 533 MHZ

BIOS DELL Corp. A00 05/23/2003

510MB Installed Memory

INTEL(R) EXTREME GRAPHICS REPORT

Report Date: 06/21/2007

Report Time[hr:mm:ss]: 14:10:21

Driver Version: 6.14.10.4342

Operating System: Windows NT* 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2

Default Language: English

DirectX* Version: 9.0

Physical Memory: 510 MB

Min. Graphics Memory: 1 MB

Max. Graphics Memory: 64 MB

Graphics Memory in use: 8 MB

Processor: x86

Processor Speed: 2657 MHZ

Vendor ID: 0x8086

Device ID: 0x2562

Device Revision: 1

* Output Devices Connected to Graphics Accelerator *

Active Monitors:1

 

[FarFarAway]

You'll need to go into BIOS and it'll be under chipset features or something similar