Solved Card Confusion?

I'm having some problems getting the PC to recognise the new graphics card (Nvidia GeForce GT 610)
My specs are:
MESH Tower with AMD Phenom 9850 Quad processor
Windows Vista 64-bit SP2
ASUS M2N68-VM motherboard, AMD Socket AM2+
Motherboard chipset nVIDIA GeForce 7050 PV/ nVIDIA nForce 630a
integrated graphics is Nvidia GeForce series 7 Shader model 3.0 DirectX9 graphics processor.

I lost the red colour from the PC to the display. The display and the cables all checked out as good. So not a cable or monitor problem. I then tried my existing PCI express graphics card (ATI Radeon HD4350) and it wouldn't display but was listed in the display hardware, but I don't know if this ever worked properly. So I thought I needed to replace the graphics card, the Nvidia GeForce GT 610. Still no red colour nor is the new card recognised.

I found and loaded the latest Nvidia graphics software (306.23) and my red colour is back but I can still only use the integrated card. Please any suggestions?

Regards,
Ken

hello and welcome to the forum.

Did you properly do up the drivers?

You first need to uninstall any and all AMD/ATI programs and drivers.
Then put the 610 into the system and connect the monitor and install the drivers.

Try that first.

Thanks for the prompt response. I had already deleted all the ATi/AMD software and uninstalled the old card. Following your post, I cleaned out the nVidia software, removed the new card and re-booted with no card. I then tried the install procedure again and it still can't see the new graphics card. Tried updating the software still no joy. Some older posts mention taking the battery out to reset the BIOS, is that worth trying or a red herring?

Is there any way to test the PCI Express slot?

Regards,
Ken

Resetting the cmos/bios is actually very good idea...

No way of testing the slot besides trying a good card.

Sorry bout the long reply time

Nothing sems to have worked and I have had to use restore as the nVidia driver update wouldn't run after I had uninstalled the onboard graphics adaptor.

Last resort seems to be resetting the BIOS by removing the battery. What will this do to the system and should I have the new card in the slot when I boot-up the system?

The BIOS on my PC has no function to control the graphics card location so I'm at a loss as to understand what this doing. I have also never upgarded the BIOS on this machine as when I previosuly did when I had an XP PC and it all went a bit wrong

Nothing other than make the mobos onboard operating system forget what was plugged in, And so it will relearn it as it goes through the post.

BIOS May have a "first boot" choice, but that's ususlly it.

Theres absolutely no harm in clearing the cmos.

Removed the CMOS and when I re-booted I had to set the date and time - no problem. It didn't fix the problem with the graphics card but now had a whole batch of other problems. After about two days I now have the system stable again but when I put a video disk into my HD DVD player the whole thing just hangs. If I select explorer for that drive it hangs. The device manager reads "This device is working properly. Windows did not start a related device driver. To learn more, click the Driver tab and then click Driver Details."

No matter what I doit just doesn't update any device driver for the drive. The other CD/DVD drive works fine and yet I get the same message as above. If I try and play a dvd on the CD/DVD drive it works, I swap it over to the HD DVD drive, system hangs and the the other DVD drive won't function. The system will now not shutdown or restart! I have to do a hard shutdown.

This all went very badly wrong after removing the CMOS - never again

This has nothing to do with the cmos, I think you might have jiggled a cable when you were in there.

If you didn't leave the battery out for like 20mins, I don't think you reset the cmos. I usually don't pop the battery, I use the jumpers to ensure I reset things.

Problem was the PCI-E slot on the motherboard (card not recognised) no longer functioning plus some issue with the on-board graphics card connection (losing red), probably some sort of dry joint and too difficult to repair.

Thanks,
Ken

That sucks... bad parts suck.