Outshined Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 I'm new here ... but I'd like to post a question maybe someone can help me with.I friend pulled on his monitor cable and "ripped" out the 15-pin female interface card connector. He gave me the pc... And I simply figured I'd just buy a video card and connect the monitor through this pci connection.However, when I boot up the machine, the monitor is not connected because the drivers for the vga card are not loaded. #1) Can this even be done? #2) Is there a particular way to load drivers without a connected monitor to see what you are doing?Thanks for your attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 I'm new here ... but I'd like to post a question maybe someone can help me with.I friend pulled on his monitor cable and "ripped" out the 15-pin female interface card connector. He gave me the pc... And I simply figured I'd just buy a video card and connect the monitor through this pci connection.However, when I boot up the machine, the monitor is not connected because the drivers for the vga card are not loaded. #1) Can this even be done? #2) Is there a particular way to load drivers without a connected monitor to see what you are doing?Thanks for your attention.This is impossible. 99% chance you've bought a nVidia or ATI graphics card, and both (and many more) support a basic driver. This basic driver is ALWAYS used when you want to install Windows!So the problem must lie somewhere else: or the cable isn't working anymore, or the monitor is broken, or the graphics card isn't installed correctly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outshined Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 Thanks, Sneaky. Actually the card is a Pine PCI3800. I tried all the slots to make sure it wasn't connectors, the monitor cable works, etc. I called Pine and tech support told me I need to "disable my onboard vid card" and then the Pine ard should be recognized. Since the motherboard is not a Pine, I was told I need to contact --- Dell.I typed some keywords into Dell KBase. ... I have no idea how to do this ... especially since I cannot see the desktop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfeedback Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Thanks, Sneaky. Actually the card is a Pine PCI3800. I tried all the slots to make sure it wasn't connectors, the monitor cable works, etc. I called Pine and tech support told me I need to "disable my onboard vid card" and then the Pine ard should be recognized. Since the motherboard is not a Pine, I was told I need to contact --- Dell.I typed some keywords into Dell KBase. ... I have no idea how to do this ... especially since I cannot see the desktop!You will need to get into the BIOS in order to disable the onboard video. If you're not able to do this you might be SOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 OR you have to connect the monitor to the onboard video while installing Windows. (Unless that's the not working one...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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