Whenever I insert my graphics card into my PCI slot and turn my computer on; I receive an error which states 'Please Check Signal', then I hear one beep and the monitor powers off. But, when I take it out, everything works fine. I even tried different slots and disabling the onboard graphics. I know the graphics card isn't bad because I tried it on my other computer and it works fine. I've had my graphics card working amazingly well for months without a problem. That is until I had to remove it for a while (about 2 days) and then enable my onboard graphics again until then.

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is the card a different type than the onboard card--you say it's a pci, is the onboard an agp? you might have to make a change in bios. if so I guess you'll have to do it with the onboard card and let the computer boot if you can see it, then turn it off. and since we all do silly things--did you change the monitor connection to the pci card when you put it in? I've done that with sound cards and modems then wondered why they didn't work, lol!


On Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 5:05 pm, Mike wrote:
>Whenever I insert my graphics card into my PCI slot and turn my computer on; I receive
>an error which states 'Please Check Signal', then I hear one beep and the monitor
>powers off. But, when I take it out, everything works fine. I even tried different
>slots and disabling the onboard graphics. I know the graphics card isn't bad because
>I tried it on my other computer and it works fine.
>
>I've had my graphics card working amazingly well for months without a problem. That
>is until I had to remove it for a while (about 2 days) and then enable my onboard
>graphics again until then.

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Negative. It's a PCI card...


On Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 6:51 pm, Donna R wrote:
>is the card a different type than the onboard card--you say it's a pci, is the onboard
>an agp? you might have to make a change in bios. if so I guess you'll have to do
>it with the onboard card and let the computer boot if you can see it, then turn it
>off.
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>and since we all do silly things--did you change the monitor connection to the pci
>card when you put it in? I've done that with sound cards and modems then wondered
>why they didn't work, lol!
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it doesn't seem like this would be the problem since you've had the card in before, but some motherboards have jumpers to disable the onboard sound or video. or you might try having the onboard video card disabled and boot with NO video card. then turn off the computer and put the card in and see if windows finds it.


On Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 9:26 pm, Mike wrote:
>Negative. It's a PCI card...
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