hello people..
i have an emachines 3230 pc xp home edition
i bought a radeon 9600 pro graphics card which seems to be a good buy from some other forum talk. but i am having some serious problems installing it.. my pc has a integrated graphics unit in the mother intel extreme graphics 82845g which is pretty crap. when installing the 9600 i unstalled the drivers from the integrated card shut off pc placed new 1 into AGP slot. booted up pc and then black screen. rebooted, went into bios disabled the integrated card but still nothing. im prett sure its in the slot correct so i dont have a clue wots wrong. might not b compated with my mother board but im not sure..

sys specs using everst

Field Value
Computer
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

Motherboard MS6714
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2800 MHz (28 x 100)
Motherboard Name MSI 845GEM / 845GLMS / 845GVM / 845GVM-V / MS-6526G(L) (3 PCI, 2 DIMM, Audio, Video)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Brookdale-G i845GE
System Memory 759 MB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (07/26/04)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display
Video Adapter Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller (64 MB)
3D Accelerator Intel Extreme Graphics
Monitor Medion MD7415TE [15" LCD] (A4P410U50499)

Multimedia
Audio Adapter Intel 82801DB ICH4 - AC'97 Audio Controller [B-0]

Storage
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801DB Ultra ATA Controller
Disk Drive Generic USB SD Reader USB Device
Disk Drive Generic USB CF Reader USB Device
Disk Drive Generic USB SM Reader USB Device
Disk Drive Generic USB MS Reader USB Device
Disk Drive HDS722580VLAT20 (80 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B (DVD+R9:2.4x, DVD+RW:12x/4x, DVD-RW:8x/4x, DVD-RAM:5x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:40x/24x/40x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions
C: (NTFS) 78528 MB (64959 MB free)

Input
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse PS/2 Compatible Mouse

thanks

Hi Meatpie,

Well, certainly an interesting problem there. Let's look at what could be causing it.

This is what should be done in order, ideally...
1) Have you installed the AGP drivers for the motherboard, if these are needed?
2) Have you installed the drivers for the graphics card
3) Have you installed the graphics card in the AGP slot, and is it bedded correctly?
4) Have you disabled the integrated graphics and plugged the data cable into the new port?

Looking at the specs of the MSI 845GEM system board, this does support graphics but only up to 4x. Ensure your graphics card is also set for 4x, otherwise it won't work.

Hope this helps,

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What is the size of your power supply? And how much power does your new video card require?

Sometimes upgrading a video card will also force you to get a bigger power supply if your original one isn't up to video card power requirements.

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