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11/11/12 at 8:50pm
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I was trying to switch out an older radeon card that seemed to stop working, tried to replace it with Nvidia GT 440 since its an older rig and not my main gaming box. Used for music production and watching vids...Noticed when I checked device manager no "display adapter" catagory was showing and the software driver won't install for the new card. Come to think of it, this may be why the Radeon stopped working aside from regular display, I mean the fact that simply connecting any graphics card will allow the display to show apps, but components on the card like HDMI capabilities won't function. Checked the bios for conflicts, enabled PCI-E graphics as opposed to mobo onboard graphics. Running XP on the old rig, updated all drivers using Driver Genius...am stumped...anyone run into this prob?? Thanks in advance...
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11/12/12 at 6:40am
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I was trying to switch out an older radeon card that seemed to stop working, tried to replace it with Nvidia GT 440 since its an older rig and not my main gaming box. Used for music production and watching vids...Noticed when I checked device manager no "display adapter" catagory was showing and the software driver won't install for the new card. Come to think of it, this may be why the Radeon stopped working aside from regular display, I mean the fact that simply connecting any graphics card will allow the display to show apps, but components on the card like HDMI capabilities won't function. Checked the bios for conflicts, enabled PCI-E graphics as opposed to mobo onboard graphics. Running XP on the old rig, updated all drivers using Driver Genius...am stumped...anyone run into this prob?? Thanks in advance...

You probably didn't have any drivers at all. Driver Genius? Get rid of it.. it will probably download the wrong drivers (just my opinion... id rather download them directly from the website). Use control panel > programs to uninstall any drivers you have, then run driver cleaner pro, then run a ccleaner with a registry scan/delete. From here, reinstall whichever card you want to use. If you can't boot into windows, try booting into safemode. If you can't even get into safemode, you probably have a bad card.... install the other card and drivers and you should be good to go.

Under display adapters you should at least have something like 'standard vga output device' or something... its weird its not even reading. Maybe you have a bad mobo?
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11/12/12 at 2:12pm
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Thanks for the quick reply...Driver Genius only helped me get other missing and outdated drivers (about 70 of them) aside from the graphics card since this mobo was a build from the pentium 4 years, about 8-10 yrs ago...still functioning but needing TLC being in storage several years. I was not able to download from ATI (AMD) or NVIDIA the specific drivers of the old radeon or the new GT440 presumably for the reason that "display drivers" or anything like it was not showing in the device manager (mysteriously disappeared). Someone else suggested checking VIA to PCI catagories in Dev. Manager. I would try your suggestion next, yet now maybe I can just transfer my files to new SATA HD and start fresh with new MOBO, CPU, DIMM, Windows 7, etc., my thinking is that at some point the effort and time is not worth it? Can't polish a turd as someone once said... Maybe finding the best deals in hardware for the job that rig will do at minimum expense...(Main rig is SLI gaming box). What do you think?
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