Hey, I just bought an ATI Radeon 9250 128MB PCI Graphics Card. I inserted it into my mother board and I installed the driver for it. But I don't get any meaningful signal. I say meaningful, because when I start up the computer and the Windows XP loading page comes up, it is on the monitor hooked up to the graphics card. But when the booting process getso to where you have to sign into XP, the monitor shuts off. I hooked up a monitor to the onboard VGA and the signal switches to that when you have to sign into XP. I've heard you have to change a setting in the BIOS, but I have had no luck finding the right setting. My computer is a Northgate with an Intel Celeron processor at 2.39 GHZ and 352 MB RAM with Windows XP service Pack 2 Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Ok. all bios' are different so what i say may have no bearing at all. But illtry seing as no one else in game. Try resetting your bios. This should force the CMOS to defualt to the AGP card and you should get a propper signal on your gfx card. Sounds like a helluva wierd situation tho. I dont enby you. Good luck and let us know if that works or not.
Oh. I forgot to say how to reset bios... Find a little battery on your mobo and remove it for 5 seconds. then replace it and your cmos should be set to defualt
Thanks for the quick response. I tried what you said, but to no avail. The same stupid thing is going on. I know I could try disabling the onboard VGA in the device manager, but I'm afraid that the new video card still won't work so my computer will be worthless, at least for a little while. Would there be a way to re-enable my old VGA if my new graphics card still isn't working? Is this idea even plausible?
If it's an Award style BIOS, look under the Integrated Peripherials menu. You also might look for a setting that changes the default display that's initialized first, as that might allow you to make the first display go to the card. You probably will have to tell which kind of slot it is, PCI or AGP as well. Another possibility is that the onboard video is enabled with a jumper. I don't know if it is, but you'd have to check your motherboard manual for that info.
