Installing new card

[SultrySalesman]

Hey all. My video card recently started failing so I went and picked up an ATi HD4650. I turned off onboard video but it's not recognizing the new card. Uninstalled all the old drivers and even loaded the new ones, but still no luck. I went to Device Manager and searched for hardware changes but nothing came up.

There is power the card as the fan is spinning.

My motherboard has an nforce chipset, but still uses a PCI-e slot. The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2. Anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Forgot to mention I'm on Windows XP Sp2 64bit

[pam123]

Originally Posted by SultrySalesman Hey all. My video card recently started failing so I went and picked up an ATi HD4650. I turned off onboard video but it's not recognizing the new card. Uninstalled all the old drivers and even loaded the new ones, but still no luck. I went to Device Manager and searched for hardware changes but nothing came up. There is power the card as the fan is spinning. My motherboard has an nforce chipset, but still uses a PCI-e slot. The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2. Anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? Forgot to mention I'm on Windows XP Sp2 64bit

If the new card isn't working for you then how did you manage to check in Device Manager?
Installing the card should have disabled the on board video immediately.

If it didn't, and you used the on-board to check Device Manager then the card was likely DOA, annoying but it happens. The fan can spin but it doesn't mean the card works.
Check the card in another machine to find out one way or another.
If it fails then you know you got a dud.
If it passes the problem may not have been your old card failing but a problem with the pci-e slot and thus with the motherboard.

[glc]

PCI-Express has changed things. Installing a video card does NOT disable the onboard video - it must be enabled and disabled in the bios.

If the card has a PCI-E power connector on it, it MUST be connected or the card will not start.

[pam123]

Originally Posted by glc PCI-Express has changed things. Installing a video card does NOT disable the onboard video - it must be enabled and disabled in the bios. If the card has a PCI-E power connector on it, it MUST be connected or the card will not start.

Yes, my wits went walk about, my board requires you to select the Primary Display Adapter and Primary Video Controller.