Help ! New Graphic Card but no display !!

[DeathMagneto]

I have got this Zebronics FX 5500 AGP 8x card
It plugs into my motherboard pretty smoothly, I connected my monitor into video card and so far so good.
Now once I switch on, it seems to detect the new hardware and therefore it displays the Nvidia corporation and memory size of the card while booting and then appears our regular boot screen and then the microsoft windows.
Problem starts now , coz once the loading of windows is done , the display on monitor simply freezes.. no display and only the dead monitor with its power switch blinking but my computer(cpu) seems to run perfectly.
And again When I remove the video card everything seems OK !

Please help me on this issue..

[Mulreay]

Why would you use this card?

[DeathMagneto]

For Gaming n Designing
I'm not a hardcore gamer nor I'm interested in buying a new motherboard simply coz I have no money and my configuration is reasonably good

MotherB'd : ECS P4M800-M7
Mem : 570 MB DDR SDRAM
P'sor : Intel P4

[Mulreay]

To be fair why not upgrade to an NVidia or something? In my humble opinion I believe you need to upgrade to a mainstream graphics card. There is very little to no help on the web for your card. That must tell you something.

[DeathMagneto]

yaa i know in at this time when everyone's following the dual core n quad , p4 looks ancient but I ill afford a PC now
I just have that video card and I'm looking to get that going

[Mulreay]

A video card is not dual or quad?? That's a processor. I think you may be confused. But your video card is not wildly known in the computing circles.

[DeathMagneto]

Yeh even I was talking about the processor itself

[squall_01]

Stop nacking people, I have three 478 two that are pents one celeron.  You sure you disable the on board in the bios an told it what card you wanted it too see, AGP - PCI ....

[Mulreay]

oh you two deserve each other.

[Karnac]

Reseat your video card, try a different slot if you can,  remove and reseat memory,  see if you can update the Nvidia drivers from their website...check your bios to see if video is configured correctly, check all connections.

[robit]

Hi! Does your board have a graphics chip set?  If so don't use that card!....

[soybean]

To be fair why not upgrade to an NVidia or something? In my humble opinion I believe you need to upgrade to a mainstream graphics card. There is very little to no help on the web for your card. That must tell you something.

The FX 5500 is an nVidia graphics chip.    However, Zebronics seems to be an obscure brand for video cards; I've never heard of it before.

You sure you disable the on board in the bios an told it what card you wanted it too see, AGP - PCI ....

What's your response to this?

Hi! Does your board have a graphics chip set?  If so don't use that card!....

You can ignore this advice.  Any video card with an FX 5500 and 128MB or more memory should out-perform onboard video on his motherboard.

[squall_01]

I know that when I didnt do that on my one machine it would boot off the on board then go to the card.  I ment if his bios had it to set it correctly, mine has that feature for some reason.

[soybean]

Yep, I thought that's what you meant.  I was asking DeathMagneto what his response to your question is.  He hasn't responded to it yet.

[squall_01]

I know just rather make it so there was a better understanding.