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New Graphics Card (replacing integrated)
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Brilliant. Thank you.
disaster... help please
Ok disaster.... Connected the new graphics card and black screen with no signal to monitor.
Card seems to be working with the fan and light on.
Have removed the card and tried to connect to my monitor as usual through the integrated card and again black screen... Argh.
Tried yo reboot cmos and try again but computer turns on as does the fan but it wont boot any further.
Have just taken cmos battery out and will try again in 20 mins.
Is there anything else i can try?
If it works is there anything else i need to do to instsll the new card as im using the pci e rsther yhan the integrated card? Nightmare!
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Edit managed to get back on with the old card after rebooting cmos but only after removing and replacing ram... that took forever to sort out!
Ok disaster.... Connected the new graphics card and black screen with no signal to monitor.
Card seems to be working with the fan and light on.
Have removed the card and tried to connect to my monitor as usual through the integrated card and again black screen... Argh.
Tried yo reboot cmos and try again but computer turns on as does the fan but it wont boot any further.
Have just taken cmos battery out and will try again in 20 mins.
Is there anything else i can try?
If it works is there anything else i need to do to instsll the new card as im using the pci e rsther yhan the integrated card? Nightmare!
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Edit managed to get back on with the old card after rebooting cmos but only after removing and replacing ram... that took forever to sort out!
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I cannot think of why the card wouldn't work. Either the intergrated graphic is still taking over, or the PCI-E x16 slot is not working properly I think?
When you have the card installed, and if you get not signal with the cable connected to the card, try connecting it back on the motherboard's video output to see if it's display anything to check if the intergrated graphic is taking over. Also, it might worth giving the PCI-E x16 slot a blow with compressed air or something, as it "might" be dust in the slot that's causing the card to not work.
Marine-RX179,
I have no idea what happened but the good news is after I managed to get it working with the old integrated card I installed the new one again and success
(has only taken 4 hours lol)
All up and running, just started up Diablo 3 and it looked to be working fine... and systemlabs said I can run guildwars 2 so maybe a good Christmas present from the kids!
I have no idea what happened but the good news is after I managed to get it working with the old integrated card I installed the new one again and success
(has only taken 4 hours lol)All up and running, just started up Diablo 3 and it looked to be working fine... and systemlabs said I can run guildwars 2 so maybe a good Christmas present from the kids!
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That's good to hear. I'm guessing it might be some old settings left in the bios or whatever was stopping it from working, and got sorted after you removed the battery and ram.Marine-RX179,
I have no idea what happened but the good news is after I managed to get it working with the old integrated card I installed the new one again and success
All up and running, just started up Diablo 3 and it looked to be working fine... and systemlabs said I can run guildwars 2 so maybe a good Christmas present from the kids!
Oh and btw I done more testing on GW2 on my E5200 dual-core at 4.25GHz with 980GTX+ system. Forget what I said about using the ingame frame rate limiter capping the frame rate at 30 (I found that frame rate ain't too bad outside of the city), and cap the frame rate at 60fps (the max your monitor can output), and just turn up the graphic settings to High and use Native Sampling (you could try using SuperSampling, but I think it kills more frame rate than its worth). If you got GPU usage free, you could considering upping the shadow and distance from High to Ultra.
See if you can overclock your Q6600 to 2.8-3.0GHz (despite the relatively low-end board). It should hopefully able to clock to 3.0GHz on stock voltage (even if your board doesn't have voltage adjustment feature). Just go into the bios and change the FSB from 266 to 333 (266x9=2400MHz, 333x9=3000MHz), and make sure your ram doesn't go above it's rate speed (ram overclock as well when you change the FSB figure, and when ram is overclocked too high and unstable, it would make the PC refuse to post...). To have the FSB: DRAM ratio at 1:1, you should have the ram at 667MHz if your FSB is at 333.
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Not been silly have you and not plugged your monitor into the graphics card's monitor output? Some people make the mistake of fitting a nice new shiny GPU and then plug the monitor cable straight back into the motherboard's onboard output..
Cheers mate, looks a bit complicated with the overclocking will look at that in a wee while after the horror show of the black screen I quite like the idea of things working smoothly for a little while!
Not been silly have you and not plugged your monitor into the graphics card's monitor output? Some people make the mistake of fitting a nice new shiny GPU and then plug the monitor cable straight back into the motherboard's onboard output..
I am generally pretty silly, but I definitely didn't do this!
I did have a small panic attack when I couldn't figure out why the monitor cable wouldn't plug into the gfx card as the fitting was too small but lifting out some of the box revealed the connector underneath and the installation CD
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I started my first ever overclocking on the Q6600 as wellCheers mate, looks a bit complicated with the overclocking will look at that in a wee while after the horror show of the black screen I quite like the idea of things working smoothly for a little while!
I almost wet myself when my PC refused to post. But now I'm have learn much more about PC hardware and overclocking over the years, I can tell you this...failing overclock ain't gonna damage your hardware...it is only if you use crazy high voltage and OVERHEAT the CPU that the high temp it might damage or fry it. Since you are not touching the voltage, I honestly don't think you got anything to worry about...but just make sure you downclock the ram speed when you overclock the the Q6600 (as the ram would overclock as well when you increase the FSB). As I mention earlier (I edited so you might not have seen it), change the FSB from 266 to 333, and your ram speed down to 667MHz (or your memory's rated speed) in the bios, then save and exist the bios...and that should hopefully do the trick. Also, see if you can locate the c1E setting and disable it, as it might reduce the stability of overclock.Found a video which might be useful for you:
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You should be fine for GW2 as well, my friend is running it on a C2D with a Radeon 4870 (I think), so with the new card your system's probably faster than his.
Cheers, hopefully it will be. I will probably get it after i'm bored of Diablo 3... really enjoying it just now tho.
Slight problem. Since I installed the graphics card the screen is a bit blurry when I am browsing the internet (its fine in games).
I changed the screen resolution to maximum and it fixed it and the text was crystal clear when browsing, but its now gone back to being a bit blurry.
Any ideas what I can do to sort this as its sore reading text for any length of time.
Cheers.
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Umm... hard to say, maybe the screen refresh is set to higher than your monitor supports? Or maybe the video card's output port is dodgy? If it has another one try using that instead?
I have been playing around with the settings and actually increased the refresh rate and that seems to have sorted the problem out.
Cheers.
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Cool, it was just a random guess but I'm glad it worked out!