Simviation Forum - Installing Graphics card question

Nov 5^th, 2008 at 11:51pm

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I recieved my graphics card today, and in the package was a loose red card that said I needed to change the BIOS to select the PCI instead of the onboard video. It does not say when exactly to do this.

I'm guessing I do that after installing the hardware and then the software, and updating the BIOS is the last step. Would that be the correct sequence?

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Reply #1 - Nov 6^th, 2008 at 1:36am

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Unplug everything, install the new card. Boot up into the bios. Change settings in bios to use PCI instead of onboard, save restart and woalla done Wink

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Reply #2 - Nov 6^th, 2008 at 2:57am

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Flying Mouse wrote on Nov 6^th, 2008 at 1:36am:

Unplug everything, install the new card. Boot up into the bios. Change settings in bios to use PCI instead of onboard, save restart and woalla done Wink

But before booting into the Bios and changing to PCI, I need to install the cards drivers and so on, correct? In other words, the Bios is the last step? I just want to be sure, since I'm a "Plug-N-Play" type person.

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Reply #3 - Nov 6^th, 2008 at 6:37am

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Before you install anything, remove your old video drivers first. Then boot the machine, enter the BIOS and make the change required. Then shut the machine down, install your new card (connecting your monitor to it of course) and boot it again. (All the way) You should now be using you new card for video. From this point you can install your new drivers.

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Reply #4 - Nov 6^th, 2008 at 8:12am

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Boikat wrote on Nov 6^th, 2008 at 2:57am:

Flying Mouse wrote on Nov 6^th, 2008 at 1:36am:

Unplug everything, install the new card. Boot up into the bios. Change settings in bios to use PCI instead of onboard, save restart and woalla done Wink

But before booting into the Bios and changing to PCI, I need to install the cards drivers and so on, correct? In other words, the Bios is the last step? I just want to be sure, since I'm a "Plug-N-Play" type person.

Installing the drivers for the card is the last thing you do.

You only install the drivers once the card is installed and the bios is set to detect the card.

As above, you could first remove the old drivers before doing anything however, it won't do harm if you remove it after installation, and then reinstalling the new drivers.

Lol and yeah, make sure you plug your screen into the new card and not into the onboard plug. Otherwise the screen wont come on, often comes with beeping.
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Reply #5 - Nov 10^th, 2008 at 11:47pm

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Well, I'm about to spaz! Sad

After installing the first video card, and going through the "step-by-step", I got pure crudsville. FSX was useless, unless you're into five second frame rates. But the aircraft *looked* good.

FS9 was a technicolor explosion. By that I mean most AC showed up as a strange mish-mash of of odd shapes and pieces (See the "flying junkyard" thread in FS9), and of course, was totally useless. I downloaded the latest drivers, absolutly not change.

Being slightly obsessive at this point, I bought another vid card, ad GeForce 8400 GS (It even has a screeny on the back of the box taken from FSX, a red Grumman Goose). Silly me, I took that as a good sign.

I went through and did everything, again, step by step.

Double checked the BIOS, it was set to PCI

Uninstalled the old drivers, powered off computer, removed power and vid cable, opened and removed old card, incerted new card (observing ESD safety precautions at all times.), buttened it back up, connected vid cable and power.

Powered back up and installed software. it did it's thing, then after rebooting again, installed DX 10.

I also went to the NVidia site and DL'd and installed the latest driver.

The exploding FS9 textures went away, with setting slides about mid to minimum, frame rates are still in the toilet. FSX runs at about 1 frame a second or two, with virtually all slides to the left (minimum).

But the aircraft look great.

Something is wrong here, since I used to be able to run FS9 with virtally all setting slides full right, and FSX with setting slides about mid-range with *no* video card.

What am I doing wrong? Embarrassed

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