I cannot boot my pc after having inserted a tv card: XFX Geforce. This replaced the previous video card. The pc comes on and I do get beeps although I get a nasty long one early on.
Removing new card and re inserting old has same result. The XFX manual, short as it is, gave a graphics software removal procedure that did not seem to pertain to Windows XP which I have. It wanted me to go into Display/Settings/Advanced/Adapter/Change and then choose 'Show all hardware' before restarting PC. As I could not find this procedure in Control Panel I just went to Add/Remove Programs instead. Then I removed Invidia graphics/video driver stuff, not being sure whether I should also be removing, separately, PCI video (drivers?) if I remember the name correctly. Now I am not sure whether the Invidia stuff I removed was put on the machine by me from CD after purchase of tv card 9 months ago or was already on machine for years before. But Nvidia is certainly the name of the cd/s'ware that came with card.
Once I had removed the old card, I became unsure of which slot I had removed it from, but I think it was the black one towards the top, leaving a spare slot between that and the grey ones underneath. A funny thing is that the 'manual' says that black slots are ISA and should not be used. It says the correct slot is either PCI (White) or AGP (Brown). These terms mean nothing to me and I am not pc literate technically in terms of the inner workings. The new card will go into either the black slot I believe the old one came from, OR the next grey one (but one) below, although the old card will only go back into the black one.
Can damage be caused by using wrong slots and booting? I don't really know what I am doing. I am using a different machine at the library to do this post.
Exasperatedly, Paul
Removing new card and re inserting old has same result. The XFX manual, short as it is, gave a graphics software removal procedure that did not seem to pertain to Windows XP which I have. It wanted me to go into Display/Settings/Advanced/Adapter/Change and then choose 'Show all hardware' before restarting PC. As I could not find this procedure in Control Panel I just went to Add/Remove Programs instead. Then I removed Invidia graphics/video driver stuff, not being sure whether I should also be removing, separately, PCI video (drivers?) if I remember the name correctly. Now I am not sure whether the Invidia stuff I removed was put on the machine by me from CD after purchase of tv card 9 months ago or was already on machine for years before. But Nvidia is certainly the name of the cd/s'ware that came with card.
Once I had removed the old card, I became unsure of which slot I had removed it from, but I think it was the black one towards the top, leaving a spare slot between that and the grey ones underneath. A funny thing is that the 'manual' says that black slots are ISA and should not be used. It says the correct slot is either PCI (White) or AGP (Brown). These terms mean nothing to me and I am not pc literate technically in terms of the inner workings. The new card will go into either the black slot I believe the old one came from, OR the next grey one (but one) below, although the old card will only go back into the black one.
Can damage be caused by using wrong slots and booting? I don't really know what I am doing. I am using a different machine at the library to do this post.
Exasperatedly, Paul
