Question about graphics card problem

[johnnybevo]

Attention innerpeace

Re: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=201516

I know this may be the wrong place to post this Question.
I read your post ,after you had upgraded your graphics card.
I just purchased a new card and cant get it to work.
I am also running a w3410 winxp.
Was your card a PCI or PCI express? I bought a PCI maybe should have purchased a PCI express. If yours was a PCI how did your disable on-board ATI express 200 series. I was told by someone I would need some type of adapter to use the PCI express, did you need one? What ever you used how did you do the install, the process you followed?

[innerpeace]

Hi johnnybevo.

My card was/is a PCI express. The only thing I needed to do was clean up the old ATI stuff and install the new drivers and software for the new card. The motherboard on the W3410 has a PCI express slot :thumb:.

Here are the guides that I followed the best I could to install the software/drivers and clean up afterwords. I mainly used the installation and tidying up pages.

For ATI: http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_1.html

For Nvidia: http://www.tweakguides.com/NVFORCE_1.html

In all honesty, I just followed the graphics card instructions and then worked through the appropriate guides. I do remember that my card didn't want to work immediately. I think the W3410 is kind of picky myself. I reseated the card and unplugged and plugged in the monitor a few times before It worked.

If you don't use your modem, you might try unplugging it. I had a problem a while back where the computer wouldn't come on except the fans ran full speed. I tried everything and finally unplugged the modem and it was back to normal. It could be that I needed to update the motherboard drivers or the BIOS.

Here's the link to the motherboard that was in my W3410.
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=&prod_no=204