My video card doesn't exist (And is also right here)
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je_saist,
Posted on: 2009-10-20 20:43 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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Windows doesn't recognize your 7900gs at all? If it recognizes it as a secondary adapter, you can try going to the screen settings on XP and 'expanding' the desktop to a second monitor. That should give you something out of the 7900gs, to make sure it's working.|
Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Humbly do I ask... The heck!?
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Try going into the BIOS (Del or F2 at the boot screen) and make sure the "Default video adapter" is set to PCI Express and not Internal. That should make sure the 7900gs is seen as the "main" card.
If both things fail, and you want to make sure the card works, download a linux distro (Ubuntu is great, but if you don't plan to use Linux regularly, Puppy Linux is only 100MB) and boot with that. If it doesn't recognize your card, you're probably in trouble. If it does recognize the card, some Windows update did indeed screw things up.
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Originally Posted by Leandro
Windows doesn't recognize your 7900gs at all?
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Before I go about trying your tips, I'll answer this, that you may mull it over while I'm on radio silence with the reboot.
It does and doesn't. Power is getting to it (from my new and powerful power supply) and the fan is turning. When I plug my monitor into it, the monitor stops complaining that it's not plugged into anything, indicating at least a vague awareness.
Beyond that, I can't get it to notice it. I've put it in a bikini, given it interesting conversation topics, and even got it involved in some hilarious hijinx. None of this, however, has resulted in my finding any indication in my software programs that it exists.
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No luck, but I couldn't find a "Default video adapter" option, either. I set something from PEG to PCI, though... |
Originally Posted by Leandro
Windows doesn't recognize your 7900gs at all? If it recognizes it as a secondary adapter, you can try going to the screen settings on XP and 'expanding' the desktop to a second monitor. That should give you something out of the 7900gs, to make sure it's working.
Try going into the BIOS (Del or F2 at the boot screen) and make sure the "Default video adapter" is set to PCI Express and not Internal. That should make sure the 7900gs is seen as the "main" card. If both things fail, and you want to make sure the card works, download a linux distro (Ubuntu is great, but if you don't plan to use Linux regularly, Puppy Linux is only 100MB) and boot with that. If it doesn't recognize your card, you're probably in trouble. If it does recognize the card, some Windows update did indeed screw things up. |
you've got an integrated graphics chip.
It's been turned on in the BIOS.
You need to go into the BIOS and turn the integrated graphics off and change back to PEG.
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I can't find "integrated graphics" in BIOS. I turned that setting back to PEG, though. |
Originally Posted by je_saist
you've got an integrated graphics chip.
It's been turned on in the BIOS. You need to go into the BIOS and turn the integrated graphics off and change back to PEG. |
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... do you know who made your motherboard?|
Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
I can't find "integrated graphics" in BIOS. I turned that setting back to PEG, though.
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Biostar? Asus? MSI?
You also may want to re-seat the video card in the slot and make sure the connectors are clean. The low-level checks of what is in each slot is usually done by monitoring specific connections for voltage levels. The more detailed information comes from actual bus traffic, but if for whatever reasons, you arent getting a good connection on some of the lines, it can cause a mis-read of the hardware.
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For some reason, unplugging the monitor from the port I've always used and plugging it into the video card's other port fixed everything.
I don't understand it, but I also don't question miracles.
Thanks to everyone that took their time to help out! 
Now the second plug doesn't work... do these things short out?
I downloaded all of the Microsoft updates that Windows recommended last night, proceeding then to go to sleep.
This evening (my first time using it since shut down), plugging my video cable into my video card yields no results. My monitor acts in full knowledge that it's connected to a video card, and then goes to sleep.
I plugged my monitor directly into the motherboard now, so that I may navigate things.. The computer says I have a NVIDIA GeForce 6100. This is all lies and slander! I have a NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS.
Humbly do I ask... The heck!?
~MT~
P.S. I had to update my drivers for the 6100 it thinks I have, anyway.
Edit: And the power is getting to the video card. The fan is running. Just downloaded the correct drivers, just in case.