Graphics card not showing on new board

Today I got my new motherboard and swapped everything over. All seemed fine but i cant get a display from my PCI-e card. I have tried all the options in bios. But no good. The card is ATI 4550 HD.

The fan on the graphics card is spinning and windows update is saying my card needs a update but it keeps failing saying there is no device.

Specs are

Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 630
Ram: 4GB PC-5300
PSU: 580W
OS: Win 7 64bit

Please help as I need to use the DVI output on my card

Regards

Have you looked in the device manager and is the card displayed on there?

if you can see windows then i would say the card is displaying something, do the disk that comes with the card have Windows 7 64 bit drivers on, I think this is a pretty old card, so maybe not.

you might have to got to the ATI/AMD site to download the drivers.

Vista 64bit drivers will also work.

Tried deleting the device then getting windows to scan for new devices?

What's the board? Might need a BIOS update

Gigabyte ga m68m-s2p

F5 BIOS 2010/07/02 1 Improve NVIDIA 4series VGA compatibility
Might also help with ATI compatibility. Worth a shot if its not already the latest BIOS
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?p...

Edited by deleted (Fri 03-Jun-11 20:32:55)

Post deleted by commandergc

I did update the bios but still no good

Right found my other card. Set bios to try PCI-e card first. Plugged both VGA and DVI cables in. The DVI connection worked. Post screen came up and the after windows had started the VGA connection worked but all I got was the wallpaper. All the icons appeared on the DVI screen

I swapped the VGA connection to default display and turned off the expand monitors so the DVI connection was not in use. Restarted the computer and the VGA connection once again never came on. But the DVI connection did. When it got to windows the VGA screen came on and the DVI went off.

Confused yet?

I am back on the onboard VGA now as the PCI-e card was throwing up errors and not much worked on the display side.

Any ideas?

Hello,

I'm struggling to understand what you've tried. It sounds like your trying to use 2 monitors at the same time. and both the onboard graphics and a pci express card at the same time. I'm sorry if im covering ground you've done already.

1. go into the bios ADVANCED MENU and on INIT DISPLAY FIRST and select PEG (PEG = PCI EXPRESS GRAPHICS).
2. at the bottom of the list on the ADVANCED MENU, turn ONBOARD GPU to OFF.
3. save and turn off your computer, install your pci express graphics card and turn on. Your pc should now only be using the pci express card.

No my PCI-e has 2 outputs. This is what i am trying to do. I want to eliminate the onboard

Can you confirm you have turned off the onboard graphics in the bios as per my previous post?

In reply to a post by wanapoo:

Can you confirm you have turned off the onboard graphics in the bios as per my previous post?

There is no option to disable it. Just an option to pick PCI-e over the oboard

Is the graphics card in question showing up in device manager as "Unknown device"? One of your posts sort of suggested it did........

Do you get any display output at all from it?????????

In reply to a post by UKOnline:

Right found my other card. Set bios to try PCI-e card first. Plugged both VGA and DVI cables in. The DVI connection worked. Post screen came up and the after windows had started the VGA connection worked but all I got was the wallpaper. All the icons appeared on the DVI screen

Reason: VGA output set to monitor 2, DVI output set to Monitor 1 (main desktop).

In reply to a post by UKOnline:

I swapped the VGA connection to default display and turned off the expand monitors so the DVI connection was not in use. Restarted the computer and the VGA connection once again never came on. But the DVI connection did. When it got to windows the VGA screen came on and the DVI went off.

Logical, those settings you configure only take effect in Windows.

In reply to a post by UKOnline:

I am back on the onboard VGA now as the PCI-e card was throwing up errors and not much worked on the display side.

Any ideas?

What sort of "errors"?

In reply to a post by UKOnline:

In reply to a post by wanapoo:

Can you confirm you have turned off the onboard graphics in the bios as per my previous post?

There is no option to disable it. Just an option to pick PCI-e over the oboard

Thats odd, page 38 of the Motherboards user manual says there is an option to turn off the onboard graphics. quite strange

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

In reply to a post by UKOnline:

Right found my other card. Set bios to try PCI-e card first. Plugged both VGA and DVI cables in. The DVI connection worked. Post screen came up and the after windows had started the VGA connection worked but all I got was the wallpaper. All the icons appeared on the DVI screen

Reason: VGA output set to monitor 2, DVI output set to Monitor 1 (main desktop).

In reply to a post by UKOnline:

I swapped the VGA connection to default display and turned off the expand monitors so the DVI connection was not in use. Restarted the computer and the VGA connection once again never came on. But the DVI connection did. When it got to windows the VGA screen came on and the DVI went off.

Logical, those settings you configure only take effect in Windows.

In reply to a post by UKOnline:

I am back on the onboard VGA now as the PCI-e card was throwing up errors and not much worked on the display side.

Any ideas?

What sort of "errors"?

Runtime errors is all i can remember

In reply to a post by wanapoo:

In reply to a post by UKOnline:

In reply to a post by wanapoo:

Can you confirm you have turned off the onboard graphics in the bios as per my previous post?

There is no option to disable it. Just an option to pick PCI-e over the oboard

Thats odd, page 38 of the Motherboards user manual says there is an option to turn off the onboard graphics. quite strange

My manual only goes up to page 39. Hmm

Is this Manaul the very different to what you've got ?

MANUAL

I'm wondering now if the motherboard model number you've given is correct.

Same board diff manual. But you cant disable it only set priorities