[Lynn]

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?

[Abagail]

You mean it's pretty new?

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

[Lynn]

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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.

[KingHual]

Could be the card, could be the VGA cable.

[Lynn]

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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.

[BroZeus]

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

[liquor]

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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?

[Lynn]

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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.

[GreenSt4lker]

How about installing drivers?

[Lynn]

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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.