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Graphics Card Not Detected

Gunnison

Gunnison

Gunnison

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Hey all,

Built my PC yesterday, everything went smoothly, everything plugged into the right areas etc. Connected the screen, keyboard and mouse and booted it up, installed windows 7, everything running fine except the graphics card. For some reason it's not being detected whatsoever. It's connected to the correct slot on the motherboard, all power leads for the card are connected and the fan is spinning but it won't detect the card at all. Any tips?

I was very careful with both static and general handling of the card. It's an Nvidia MSI N570GTX.
 
first have you disabled the onbord graphics from the bios, after you do that it should boot and start using your card.
 
is the vga lead plugged into the graphics card and if so then its using the card, as for the onboard graphics they are usually auto disabled when a vga card is plugged into the pcie sockets.
 
Is it booting now with the monitor cable plugged into the graphics card?

If so, just insert the Nvidia drivers CD and install the graphics card drivers.
 
well just plug you monitor in to you card and you should see somthing, if so once booted download and install the latest drivers.
 
I run the drivers CD and it keeps giving me the message "This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware. It's plugged in correctly, the fan is spinning on the card, but it's not reading at all.
 
Going to try downloading the driver from the website as per surveyor said. I really hope this works, I'll be a bit demoralised if the card or mobo is a dud.
 
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