Have you tried going through BIOS yet? I had a motherboard that didn't allow you to use a dedicated card if the onboard one was still active.
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I've been hesitant to recommend this because if he does and the card doesn't work or he still has no display for whatever reason, then he'd either have to reset the BIOS without a screen (which we really can't instruct him on how to do given the number of different BIOSs) or reset it via motherboard jumper which would likely void his warranty if he has one. You may be right though, it may be the only solution.Deathlyphil said:
Good point. BIOS is not for the faint-hearted. Modern motherboards have made a lot of this stuff much easier though, including reset buttons on the mono itself incase you screw up. We could always ask the guy to go through it very carefully and not touch or save any changes though.mindlesspuppet said:
Page file says 4205m / 15025m but CPU usage is only at 2-3%. Gigs used are 4 right now with Chrome open but that takes a gig to run anyway. The weird part is the physical memory says the total is 7415MB, cached 4919, free 74. That part doesn't make sense to me but meh. All I'm running is Chrome, Kaspersky in the background (2,400k), and windows stuff like explorer, desktop manager, things like that.mindlesspuppet said:
Yay! Fixed it! 
I checked the cables that were connecting the nVidia graphic card into the monitor and discovered that I have a cable with only a horizontal pin and no pins around it (like a square). Could this have been the cause?
Anyway... then I tried reinserting my old HDMI cable into the on board graphic card port and as I slowly pushed it in the cable (or pin) broke into pieces. Luckily nothing else but the cable got damaged. But I got angry because I thought that I'd be without a functional computer now.
Then I remembered that I have an old RGB cable and I saw that my monitor has a RGB IN possibility. I also discovered an adapter in my drawer that allowed me to connect it to the graphic card port.
Connected them both and voila... my computer runs now on the nVidia graphic card.
Tested it with Spec Ops the Line and to my delight I've found out that now I can play on a 1900x1020 medium to high setting as smooth as butter. A lot better then the 1024x something setting on low before.
Besides that I've also learned a thing or two about computers!
To everyone who donated their time for my troubles... thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'd buy you all a beer if I could.
But alas... a bro fist through the screen will have to do. Thanks. :3
I checked the cables that were connecting the nVidia graphic card into the monitor and discovered that I have a cable with only a horizontal pin and no pins around it (like a square). Could this have been the cause?
Anyway... then I tried reinserting my old HDMI cable into the on board graphic card port and as I slowly pushed it in the cable (or pin) broke into pieces. Luckily nothing else but the cable got damaged. But I got angry because I thought that I'd be without a functional computer now.
Then I remembered that I have an old RGB cable and I saw that my monitor has a RGB IN possibility. I also discovered an adapter in my drawer that allowed me to connect it to the graphic card port.
Connected them both and voila... my computer runs now on the nVidia graphic card.
Tested it with Spec Ops the Line and to my delight I've found out that now I can play on a 1900x1020 medium to high setting as smooth as butter. A lot better then the 1024x something setting on low before.
Besides that I've also learned a thing or two about computers!
To everyone who donated their time for my troubles... thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'd buy you all a beer if I could.
But alas... a bro fist through the screen will have to do. Thanks. :3
Glad you got it fixed. Guess it's like getting a new graphics card for you then, a great feeling when you're running all your old games that couldn't play very well and they're all smooth and awesome looking.Thandran said:Yay! Fixed it!
Ah, yeah from what I've heard it's a bit of a hog, never used it for myself though so wouldn't know, mine were from 7.EHKOS said:
Awesome newsThandran said:Yay! Fixed it!
I checked the cables that were connecting the nVidia graphic card into the monitor and discovered that I have a cable with only a horizontal pin and no pins around it (like a square). Could this have been the cause?
Anyway... then I tried reinserting my old HDMI cable into the on board graphic card port and as I slowly pushed it in the cable (or pin) broke into pieces. Luckily nothing else but the cable got damaged. But I got angry because I thought that I'd be without a functional computer now.
Then I remembered that I have an old RGB cable and I saw that my monitor has a RGB IN possibility. I also discovered an adapter in my drawer that allowed me to connect it to the graphic card port.
Connected them both and voila... my computer runs now on the nVidia graphic card.
Tested it with Spec Ops the Line and to my delight I've found out that now I can play on a 1900x1020 medium to high setting as smooth as butter. A lot better then the 1024x something setting on low before.
Besides that I've also learned a thing or two about computers!
To everyone who donated their time for my troubles... thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'd buy you all a beer if I could.
But alas... a bro fist through the screen will have to do. Thanks. :3
and now you're running your computer with the hardware it should be using ^^