Graphics card not working. - Printable Version

Graphics card not working. - Printable Version

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Graphics card not working. - Lynn - 24.07.2015

My brother recently got a computer, it's pretty old but the graphics card is not working.
When I put the card in my rig, my computer recognizes it, but when I plug in the VGA it does not come on.
Same with his computer that he got.
The card is a Geforce 8400 gs ddr2 512mb pci.
We can't try to use the onboard graphics card because we don't have the adapater needed.
The fan on the card is spinning, and it's showed in device manager.
Could it still be a bad card though?

Re: Graphics card not working. - Abagail - 24.07.2015

You mean it's pretty new?

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it's pretty old but the graphics card is not working.

Re: Graphics card not working. - Lynn - 24.07.2015

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Originally Posted by Abagail

You mean it's pretty new?

No, the computer and graphics card are both a few years old.
It was not recently built, a friend gave him the computer.

Re: Graphics card not working. - KingHual - 24.07.2015

Could be the card, could be the VGA cable.

Re: Graphics card not working. - Lynn - 24.07.2015

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Originally Posted by KingHual

Could be the card, could be the VGA cable.

Cable is fine, it works with my graphics card.

Re: Graphics card not working. - BroZeus - 24.07.2015

Did you changed the settings in BIOS to set the display init to graphic card instead of On Board?

Re: Graphics card not working. - liquor - 24.07.2015

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Originally Posted by BroZeus

Did you changed the settings in BIOS to set the display init to graphic card instead of On Board?

Motherboards disable the onboard GPU once a graphics card is connected.

To OP:
How is it that you can see it in device manager, yet you still think it's not working?

Re: Graphics card not working. - Lynn - 24.07.2015

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Originally Posted by liquor

Motherboards disable the onboard GPU once a graphics card is connected.

To OP:
How is it that you can see it in device manager, yet you still think it's not working?

When I plug it into my Rig, and have the VGA Plugged into my card I can goto Device manager and it sees
both my Graphics card and my brothers. But when I connect the VGA or DVI it doesn't display video.

Re: Graphics card not working. - GreenSt4lker - 24.07.2015

How about installing drivers?

Re: Graphics card not working. - Lynn - 24.07.2015

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Originally Posted by GreenSt4lker

How about installing drivers?

When I go to update them in Device Manager, it says they're up to date.