Video card installation help?

I recently bought a dual monitor video card to have 2 monitors, it is a PCI slot memory card, my old video card is connected directly to my motherboard, so i went to device manager and "uninstalled" the display adapter, which went fine. when i put the new video card into the slot, i turned on the computer and just got a black screen w/ lines across it...



I tried multiple times uninstalling and adding the video card but i just can't get past the boot screen when the new video card is installed???? Any ideas??? I was thinking maybe it could be the video card itself, or i read somewhere it might be the computer's bios needs to be updated (it is 3 yrs old computer). thanks for any help|||If you are running windows xp, you should not have any problem. at the very least, windows would use a generic vga driver to get you your screen and then you load your drivers. you need to have the card installed prior to loading drivers or the drivers will never detect your hardware and windows may not know they exist. Anyways, use the drivers that came on the cd, make sure the card is seated all the way, and pray you followed proper ESD protection methods and didnt fry your card.|||Did you disable your inbuilt graphics in bios setup 1st?|||Did you get a disc with the new video cards device drivers ? Use it and load the video card drivers.



You can have multiple video drivers on your system. The on-board isn't going to hurt anything, just like having on-board sound along with a sound card.



After installing the drivers, you'll have to shut down the computer, put in the video card in the proper slot and seated and hook up the single or dual monitors.



Then reboot the computer and see if the card is finally recognized.



Sarge|||Turning off the video adapter in windows only affects windows. You still need to disable the onboard video in the bios typical bios access is through f2 f10 or delete key during startup. Woudl suggest connecting one monitor to the onboard video while booting so this can be accomplished then when you have the bios set to access the pci video first you should be able to boot with no issue