Can someone help me with installing a new video card?
I just bought a nVidia GeForce 8400 GS (who also wrote Verto great in the box). My original installation began to take my old graphics card (in AGP slot) and put in my 8400 in a PCI libre.Lorsque turn on my computer, the first thing that appears in the upper left is a DOS text as That is four or five lines long and has "about" the type of map information: name, version and copyright date. . . tout.Après whatever, go to the Dell screen, the BIOS screen, where you can press F2 for setup and F12 for boot options (I think). Well all sounds good, but he's still doing the same process several times until about the 6th time and stops complètement.Qu that's what I do wrong? Thank you for your suggestions.EDIT: I can not press F2 or F12, because when I make the team goes to a screen where it says Keyboard failure and leads me to the F2 or F12 screen.
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check your bios, there might be an option to disable the agp slot.
Try taking the card out and see if it works with the old card still. if it doesn’t, you may have shorted out your motherboard with static electricity. If it does, put the new card back in and try again. You may have a faulty card on your hands.
Graphics cards that use the old non-express PCI slots require a bus-mastering slot. That’s usually the first PCI slot right next to the AGP slot. Try your 8400GS in that slot and see what happens.
By the way, I hope you realize that PCI 8400GS is a DOWNGRADE– it will actually be SLOWER than your AGP card. Non-express PCI graphics cards are complete garbage, because they are horribly bottlenecked by the non-express PCI bus’s snails-slow 33mHz bus speed.
AGP on the other hand transfers data at 66mHz with up to 8x data pumping, which is up to 16 times faster than old PCI. You will be severely disappointed with the extremely poor performance of that PCI 8400GS.
You should have gone for an ATI HD3650 AGP.