Not meaning to act daft, but you plug your monitor into the PCI Express card
don't you.??

If so I guess the display wont come on until you plug it into your onboard
card.

Neil
"solomatrix" <solomatrix.1yi7ff@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
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>
> I am running Windows XP Home Version 5.1 (build
> 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519:Service Pack 2) and I have Windows .NET
> 1.1 installed, I think. I installed it but it does not appear in the
> add/remove programs list?
>
> The above runs on a Mesh computer with a 3.4Ghz CPU and 1Gb of DDR
> RAM.
>
> The on board graphics are Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset
> Family.
>
> I have just installed a 256MB ATI X600 PCIE Asus/HP OEM Graphics card.
> However, Windows XP will not 'detect' the new hardware and I am unable
> to install the drivers manually. The card is second-hand and has no
> documentation but I have tried to install ATI's Catalyst Driver without
> success because the card is not 'detected'
>
> I have tried to disable the on board graphics in the hope of forcing
> the system to detect the card but it merely detects the on board
> graphics.
>
> Can anyone suggest how I can get Windows XP to 'see' the newly
> installed graphics card? Thanks
>
>
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> solomatrix