Halp?
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Hey, guys. I just bought my lil' bro a GeForce GT240 but every time I put the card into the motherboard the monitor won't show anything when I start the computer, thus not even giving me a way to even install the driver. What do I do? Sniffles
Here's the PC info: http://uploading.com/files/e16163a4/PC%2Binfo.txt/
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Install the driver before plugging in the card?
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Not showing anything at all? No boot screen, BIOS screen? If you see boot screen-BIOS screen that it could be too high settings on video resolution in Windows, maybe start in safe VGA mode? F8, wasn't it?
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You can't just go buy new video cards, you gotta also update your power core first. Up ya wattage.
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Happened to me once…did you connect your monitor i/p to the card's o/p?
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Also, if the original video was an on-board video, you may need to disable the on-board video before any other video card would work..
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@HarryMcScary:
Install the driver before plugging in the card?
Doesn't allow me to.
Not showing anything at all? No boot screen, BIOS screen? If you see boot screen-BIOS screen that it could be too high settings on video resolution in Windows, maybe start in safe VGA mode? F8, wasn't it?
The screen basically shows nothing when I turn on the computer.
You can't just go buy new video cards, you gotta also update your power core first. Up ya wattage.
How? :O
Happened to me once…did you connect your monitor i/p to the card's o/p?
I did.
Also, if the original video was an on-board video, you may need to disable the on-board video before any other video card would work.
I'm guessing that's probably it, but my system uses CMOS instead of BIOS, and I can't find any options through it to disable my on-board card.
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What happens if you put the new card in but keep the monitor plugged to your old card?
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What happens if you put the new card in but keep the monitor plugged to your old card?
Same thing. I tried plugging it into both the old card and the new one, both with the same results.
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What happens if you put the new card in but keep the monitor plugged to your old card?
You'll have an expensive item sitting in your cpu doing nothing.
You can't just go buy new video cards, you gotta also update your power core first. Up ya wattage.
How? :O
I'm 90% sure this is your problem. What you will have to do is get a screw driver and pop open your cpu chassis (after unplugging and turning off the cpu first). Unscrew the power box and replace it with another. Its relatively easy.
Getting another is probably the hard part. What you want is a 1000+ watt power adapter if you're trying to upgrade for graphics cards cause they use ALOT more power these days. When you have little to not enough power the monitor will just blink off to sleep mode when connected to the card.
Price range is like 50+ dollas
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Pretty much what B-Rock said. I recently got a GT 240 myself, you need a 300W PSU at least, I'm using a 430W and it cost me $40-50 or so back in 2009.
I would suggest you got bigger than what you needed for power spikes (from the computer, not outside sources such as a power surge during a storm).
Look towards the 450-500W range.
Also when installing a new card, you don't need to do the driver until the card's what's being pointed at via the monitor cord. Then you will need to, otherwise you'll be at a forced 640x480 resolution.
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Did you plug in the auxiliary power cord into the card itself? Reset your cmos as well (look in your motherboard manual if you don't know how!)
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Showing nothing at all may very well be either too little power available - what Watt power supply do you have? Or the card being broken - any chance to check the card in another PC with a sufficiently large power supply? Or not having the right slot - it is a PCI Express slot card, which motherboard you got?
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Videocard should work without extra power. It doesn't need a powerhouse to run the operating system. If you run a game, the computer will restart (cheap PSUs will fry the motherboard or themselves). The power that comes from the slot is enough to run the most basic applications.
My bet that it is videocard or the slot itself. Try the card in another comp if you can, or try another videocard in this computer.
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Videocard should work without extra power.
No.
I can't count the number of times I've had people come to me with this same problem when they buy NEW SHIT for an OLD CPU SET-UP.
Granted if people buy a PC out the store the first thing they should do is get a new graphics card and adapter, cus the ones in there are usually shit.
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Alright. Thanks, guys. I'll see about getting a new power core after I have run some more tests and have a technician look at it. >_>
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Technician?
Where's my gaddamn money?
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What? I don't pay the technician! That's what my heavy shovel and those shallow graves are for in my backyard.
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The GT-240 is rated at 69W and doesn't have internal power connector. I'm not sure a new PSU will sort this. 69W additional power ain't huge to require a 1000W powersupply! Some folks have been suggesting 450W and 500W which is what we put into our home user PCs. We might put a 650W in if the customer wants lots of disk and dual graphics cards etc, but the GT-240 ain' such a powerful beast to need this. If you are moving your system on from using an on-board graphics card, you probably don't have huge numbers of hard disks or an epic CPU so, think carefully before shelling out $$$ on an epic PSU.
NVidia recommend a minium 300W PSU for this card so 450W should be well ample.
The card should show Post and BIOS information well before drivers are installed in Windows, so that isn't where the problem lies.
I assume that this card is seated correctly in the slot and isn't "Dead on Arrival", which, although not common, is a possibility. Testing another card in your PC and this card in another PC often helps, but then you probably don't have the spares to do this as easily as in a workshop.
Taking it to someone who has the facilities to test the card would be my next step, if you don't have a second PC.
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I had no trouble finding 1000 Wat power supplies for around these base cost of a mid range one. My motto is "If you're gonna upgrade, might as well go for the best or you'll be upgrading again much sooner." Live by it.
Just don't get some shitty one in the 500's
