I have recently purchased a new video card for my computer. The video card I purchased is an Nvidia 9600GT. The back has two DVI ports for multiple monitors, and the other side has the place I plug in the power wire. I plugged in the power wire into the back of my video card, and into my power supply. I have an adapter which changes my standard monitor port into a DVI port so that it may plug into the video card successfully. Even when I have everything plugged in correctly(The power wire to the power supply, the adapter plugged into the video card's #1 port, and the monitor cable plugged into the DVI port) I boot up my computer, and even though the video card powers up and everything it should do, the monitor does not turn on. However, if I just plug the monitor cable into the back of my computer where it's normally at, it tells me there is no VGA cable.
What do I do? Thanks ahead of time.|||using the port in the back of your computer(not your new video card) boot your computer up and look for what key to press to enter into bios. go into your bios settings and look for a vga or a pci express setting and make sure it is on, if not that may be your problem, just change it and save and exit. shut down and put your cable into your new video card and give it a try.
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New computer, video card running hot?
I recently got a new computer and everything works fine besides when I plug in a PCIe video card. I have tried multiple videocards and all of them run really hot just sitting at the desktop. One was running at 100 C! The power supply is a 500 watt and none of the video cards I tried require anywhere near that amount.
The motherboard has 2 PCIe slots and I have the problem on both slots. The onboard video works perfectly fine. The case has the side off and none of the other components report any heat issues. I don't think airflow is a problem. The video card fan is working on all the video cards I tried. The video cards also worked fine before this new computer. I used HW Monitor by CPUID to check the temperatures. I have made sure all drivers are updated and properly installed. The OS is fresh as I just formatted and installed windows 7 today.
I have searched around and have found no answer. Any Ideas?|||>It sounds like you are doing everything right. This makes it difficult to try and troubleshoot the problem.
If it is not airflow, you are having the problem with multiple cards and the case side is off, then there could be only two possibilities:
Either the motherboard is defective, basically, the PCIe slot is defective, or it could be a capacitor on the motherboard the is the actual cause...no way to tell without having the board plugged into an oscilloscope and you would have to have the electronic circuitry diagrams.
Second potential cause is probably more the power supply itself. It is possible that the power supply is defective and actually sending more voltage to the video card than what is required...or the second problem could be that your power supply is inadequate for the power requirement needs of the card(s) and is overworking itself trying to keep up. If it is being caused by this, you can expect the power supply to burn up and cease functioning.
In either case, I think you have a serious issue with one of the electronic components that is common to everything. Those two possibilities, one of them is probably the issue - either the defective motherboard or the underpowered power supply or a defective power supply that is producing more than the regulated 12 volts. You could buy a small multimeter and then test the voltage coming out of the 6 or 8 pin power connectors to see if you are getting mroe than 12 Volts. That might be away to eliminate an over-voltage situation, but it stil doesn't say how many volts are being supplied if your power supply is under rated and is working overtime. One thing might be to unplug the computer right after running it for a while and just place your hand near the power supply and see if it is hot itself. If so, I bet you that you have an underpowered supply and the cards are going to burn that underpowered supply out.
If none of that is the cause - it may just in fact be a bad motherboard with one or more capacitors on the PCIe bus that is malfunctioning.|||Try using this Sidebar Gadget to double check the temp reading. It is what I use to monitor my GPU. Check out the link below. I use #3 because I run both ATI and Nvidia cards. Hope this helps. Good Luck.
http://windows7themes.net/windows-7-gpu-…|||Try this program:
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/Sys…
Look at the temp, if its still that high then id blame the cards since you have covered all of your bases with airflow. You sure the fan is spinning?|||Where did you get the 100C reading from? Sounds like a false reading to me. If the fan on the card is working then there's no way the card should be that hot at idle. Perhaps after a couple of hours of gaming at 100% GPU load it might reach 100C but not when it's doing nothing at all but displaying your desktop.
If its a Radeon card, load CCC and check the cards temps using that.
For an NVIDIA card, use nTune to check the temps of the card.
Modern cards are build to withstand extreme temperatures, even up to 110C but even so, that's too hot. That sort of heat is going to make the ambient temp in the case very high. Not good.
You could try what i do with my 6970. I use CCC to manually set the cards fan speed to about 50% when gaming. It's a little bit loud but who cares when there are cool explosions and shotgun blasts to listen to when gaming.
Manually setting the cards fan speed keeps the card at a decent temp all the time, instead of having it on auto. When my card is on auto fan control, the temp goes crazy, then the fan goes crazy to cool it down, then the fan slows a bit and the temp goes up again, then the fan goes crazy to bring the temp down. I don't like the constant fluctuation of temps like that and i find that manually setting the fan at 50% keeps the card nice and cool all the time.
then when i'm not gaming i just lower the fan speed to about 30% because the card doesn't get hot when not gaming and 30% is quieter than 50%|||I suspect you are getting false (greatly inaccurate) temperature readings. You should be close to 70C or so after gaming for several hours. Idle should be closer to 50 or 60C. If you are reading 100C, I would suspect that is a false reading.
BUT, something you need to understand (and not too many people do) is that the primary purpose of the case is to DIRECT airflow, for cooling purposes. The goal of proper system cooling is NOT to keep the air inside the case cooler (although that helps), but to ELIMINATE HOT SPOTS. In order to eliminate hot spots, a properly designed case needs to be closed.
If you have the side of the case off, that WILL cause your video card to run a little hotter. Although the interior of the case is "cooler"...there is also less airflow past the video card area.
Case open...cooler air, but disrupted airflow
Case closed...warmer air, but proper airflow = overall better cooling
I'm sure you've noticed that if you are outside on a breezy day, it can FEEL colder than it actually is, right? Same concept. Your computer will be better cooled if the case is CLOSED. Assuming your case is designed properly.
I'm sure your video card will be cooler once you close the case. Unfortunately, I believe you will still get false readings of temperature. I personally wouldn't worry about the high temp. reading on the video card (probably WRONG) unless you had other symptoms of over-heating. Like, if the video locks up shortly after starting a game or something like that.
Oh, and close the case. :)
The motherboard has 2 PCIe slots and I have the problem on both slots. The onboard video works perfectly fine. The case has the side off and none of the other components report any heat issues. I don't think airflow is a problem. The video card fan is working on all the video cards I tried. The video cards also worked fine before this new computer. I used HW Monitor by CPUID to check the temperatures. I have made sure all drivers are updated and properly installed. The OS is fresh as I just formatted and installed windows 7 today.
I have searched around and have found no answer. Any Ideas?|||>It sounds like you are doing everything right. This makes it difficult to try and troubleshoot the problem.
If it is not airflow, you are having the problem with multiple cards and the case side is off, then there could be only two possibilities:
Either the motherboard is defective, basically, the PCIe slot is defective, or it could be a capacitor on the motherboard the is the actual cause...no way to tell without having the board plugged into an oscilloscope and you would have to have the electronic circuitry diagrams.
Second potential cause is probably more the power supply itself. It is possible that the power supply is defective and actually sending more voltage to the video card than what is required...or the second problem could be that your power supply is inadequate for the power requirement needs of the card(s) and is overworking itself trying to keep up. If it is being caused by this, you can expect the power supply to burn up and cease functioning.
In either case, I think you have a serious issue with one of the electronic components that is common to everything. Those two possibilities, one of them is probably the issue - either the defective motherboard or the underpowered power supply or a defective power supply that is producing more than the regulated 12 volts. You could buy a small multimeter and then test the voltage coming out of the 6 or 8 pin power connectors to see if you are getting mroe than 12 Volts. That might be away to eliminate an over-voltage situation, but it stil doesn't say how many volts are being supplied if your power supply is under rated and is working overtime. One thing might be to unplug the computer right after running it for a while and just place your hand near the power supply and see if it is hot itself. If so, I bet you that you have an underpowered supply and the cards are going to burn that underpowered supply out.
If none of that is the cause - it may just in fact be a bad motherboard with one or more capacitors on the PCIe bus that is malfunctioning.|||Try using this Sidebar Gadget to double check the temp reading. It is what I use to monitor my GPU. Check out the link below. I use #3 because I run both ATI and Nvidia cards. Hope this helps. Good Luck.
http://windows7themes.net/windows-7-gpu-…|||Try this program:
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/Sys…
Look at the temp, if its still that high then id blame the cards since you have covered all of your bases with airflow. You sure the fan is spinning?|||Where did you get the 100C reading from? Sounds like a false reading to me. If the fan on the card is working then there's no way the card should be that hot at idle. Perhaps after a couple of hours of gaming at 100% GPU load it might reach 100C but not when it's doing nothing at all but displaying your desktop.
If its a Radeon card, load CCC and check the cards temps using that.
For an NVIDIA card, use nTune to check the temps of the card.
Modern cards are build to withstand extreme temperatures, even up to 110C but even so, that's too hot. That sort of heat is going to make the ambient temp in the case very high. Not good.
You could try what i do with my 6970. I use CCC to manually set the cards fan speed to about 50% when gaming. It's a little bit loud but who cares when there are cool explosions and shotgun blasts to listen to when gaming.
Manually setting the cards fan speed keeps the card at a decent temp all the time, instead of having it on auto. When my card is on auto fan control, the temp goes crazy, then the fan goes crazy to cool it down, then the fan slows a bit and the temp goes up again, then the fan goes crazy to bring the temp down. I don't like the constant fluctuation of temps like that and i find that manually setting the fan at 50% keeps the card nice and cool all the time.
then when i'm not gaming i just lower the fan speed to about 30% because the card doesn't get hot when not gaming and 30% is quieter than 50%|||I suspect you are getting false (greatly inaccurate) temperature readings. You should be close to 70C or so after gaming for several hours. Idle should be closer to 50 or 60C. If you are reading 100C, I would suspect that is a false reading.
BUT, something you need to understand (and not too many people do) is that the primary purpose of the case is to DIRECT airflow, for cooling purposes. The goal of proper system cooling is NOT to keep the air inside the case cooler (although that helps), but to ELIMINATE HOT SPOTS. In order to eliminate hot spots, a properly designed case needs to be closed.
If you have the side of the case off, that WILL cause your video card to run a little hotter. Although the interior of the case is "cooler"...there is also less airflow past the video card area.
Case open...cooler air, but disrupted airflow
Case closed...warmer air, but proper airflow = overall better cooling
I'm sure you've noticed that if you are outside on a breezy day, it can FEEL colder than it actually is, right? Same concept. Your computer will be better cooled if the case is CLOSED. Assuming your case is designed properly.
I'm sure your video card will be cooler once you close the case. Unfortunately, I believe you will still get false readings of temperature. I personally wouldn't worry about the high temp. reading on the video card (probably WRONG) unless you had other symptoms of over-heating. Like, if the video locks up shortly after starting a game or something like that.
Oh, and close the case. :)
HELP! AMD 5970 2gb video card questions.?
I just purchased a Diamond amd 5970 video card during neweggs black friday sale for 300$. I have always been Nvidia, and since I have received this card it was been nothing but trouble. First off, I cannot get it to display 120hz in games, it displays 120hz on desktop, but not games. I checked all the settings and vsync is off and I am using a dual link dvi cable to a Viewsonic vx2268wm 22" lcd 120hz monitor, i also have checked the windows settings too. I have used multiple different drivers including the newest one. Any suggestions for this?
Secondly, whenever I play battlefield bad company 2 it displays very weird colors (purple,red,blue) and shutters pretty bad. The performance is not what I expected it seems very choppy and shuttery. Performance in a few other games is pretty good, but all games should run well.
Thirdly, under the ati control panel it says that the second adapter (the second gpu for the video card) is disabled. However this isnt as big of an issue because I believe it is working, but why does it say this?
So to sum it up - Is this card compitable with this mobo/monitor?
Can this card display 120hz on this monitor?
Does the card need to be rma'd, or is it just driver issues?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you!
Now to finish it off I am using Windows XP Professional SP3.(will be getting windows 7 64 bit soon, maybe that will help?)
RIG:
AMD Diamond 5970 2gb video card
Asus nvidia m3n72-d mobo
4gb ddr3 pc6400
amd phenom II x4 @3.4ghz
160gb hd
Viewsonic vx2268wm 22" 120hz lcd monitor
750w ultra psu|||O-k
1. get a 64 bit operating system I know you said you are going to but don't put it off... your operating system can't even use all 4 gigs of memory ... your using like 3.75 out of the 4 if I am remembering correctly been a long time since I used a 32 bit OS
2. Your motherboard is an SLI motherboard ... not an issue untill you try to run dual graphics cards and link them as your motherboard only supports SLI exclusive to Nvidia cards and will not support crossfire Exclusive to ATI .... again not a hug issue until you try to run more than one video card in your setup
3. Did you completely uninstall your last graphics card ? as in go into device manager and remove it from there ? there may be a drive conflict if you simply stepped on the old drivers with the new ones especially in XP
That should do the trick... also try re installing the game that was showing weird colors|||1. drivers would be missing or not properly installed.
2. If u increase VGA u must Increase RAM if needed or able to understand each other. (Mean codes)|||Well that's a long freaking card, have to agree with the first answer go to a windows 64 bit system, max on a 32 bit system for ram without errors is 3.5 gb of ram , also the Bf3 game will only run on windows vista and 7 os mainly 64 bit, kind of elimate windows xp from the newer gaming market and being a dual gpu card should run games smoothly, kind of noisy graphic card, also i notice something about your motherboard and processor, the motherboard is a am2+ and the processor is a am3 , upgrade the motherboard ,a good one is a gigabyte GA 890FXA-UD7 or a msi 890FXA -gd70
both are good motherboards but similar in specs the gigabyte is the better motherboard am3 socket
Secondly, whenever I play battlefield bad company 2 it displays very weird colors (purple,red,blue) and shutters pretty bad. The performance is not what I expected it seems very choppy and shuttery. Performance in a few other games is pretty good, but all games should run well.
Thirdly, under the ati control panel it says that the second adapter (the second gpu for the video card) is disabled. However this isnt as big of an issue because I believe it is working, but why does it say this?
So to sum it up - Is this card compitable with this mobo/monitor?
Can this card display 120hz on this monitor?
Does the card need to be rma'd, or is it just driver issues?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you!
Now to finish it off I am using Windows XP Professional SP3.(will be getting windows 7 64 bit soon, maybe that will help?)
RIG:
AMD Diamond 5970 2gb video card
Asus nvidia m3n72-d mobo
4gb ddr3 pc6400
amd phenom II x4 @3.4ghz
160gb hd
Viewsonic vx2268wm 22" 120hz lcd monitor
750w ultra psu|||O-k
1. get a 64 bit operating system I know you said you are going to but don't put it off... your operating system can't even use all 4 gigs of memory ... your using like 3.75 out of the 4 if I am remembering correctly been a long time since I used a 32 bit OS
2. Your motherboard is an SLI motherboard ... not an issue untill you try to run dual graphics cards and link them as your motherboard only supports SLI exclusive to Nvidia cards and will not support crossfire Exclusive to ATI .... again not a hug issue until you try to run more than one video card in your setup
3. Did you completely uninstall your last graphics card ? as in go into device manager and remove it from there ? there may be a drive conflict if you simply stepped on the old drivers with the new ones especially in XP
That should do the trick... also try re installing the game that was showing weird colors|||1. drivers would be missing or not properly installed.
2. If u increase VGA u must Increase RAM if needed or able to understand each other. (Mean codes)|||Well that's a long freaking card, have to agree with the first answer go to a windows 64 bit system, max on a 32 bit system for ram without errors is 3.5 gb of ram , also the Bf3 game will only run on windows vista and 7 os mainly 64 bit, kind of elimate windows xp from the newer gaming market and being a dual gpu card should run games smoothly, kind of noisy graphic card, also i notice something about your motherboard and processor, the motherboard is a am2+ and the processor is a am3 , upgrade the motherboard ,a good one is a gigabyte GA 890FXA-UD7 or a msi 890FXA -gd70
both are good motherboards but similar in specs the gigabyte is the better motherboard am3 socket
AGP video card to PCI video card...?
I have a Dell Dimension 8200 that I am upgrading. It had an AGP Nvidia 64MB Geforce 4 MX 420 card and I am upgrading to a PCI ATI Radeon X1300 256MB. I guess I screwed up and installed the new ATI card and drivers while the AGP card was still enabled/installed. The computer then thought I wanted to use both cards (for multiple monitors)...I never was able to get any signal from the new ATI card. So then I uninstalled the drivers for the AGP Nvidia card and restarted. I pressed F2 during startup and changed the video choice from AGP to AUTO (that was the only other option shown). Now when I start up, I can't get either card to do anything.
Is there any way to take out both cards and somehow do a hard reset to get things back to normal?
Someone please help...
THANKS!!|||Yes. Turn off computer and unplug it. Look next to battery. You should see 3 or four small pins with a jumper attached to them . Remove jumper . Turn on computer. It may beep but most likely not. Monitor will stay off. Turn off computer. Replace jumper and your AGP card. You may need to go into your device manager prior to all this and remove display adapters as well as any driver packs you have installed. You may have to google your motherboard to find location of your CMOS bios jumper(same tiny jumper different names).|||First of all only one of those cards can run. If you want two to run together they have to be the same model and capable of it. Most cards have two outputs on a single card for two monitors. Second of all the new card is not PCI, it's PCI-express. Big difference. Uninstall all video drivers in safe mode and plug in only the new one. Then install the new card drivers.
Is there any way to take out both cards and somehow do a hard reset to get things back to normal?
Someone please help...
THANKS!!|||Yes. Turn off computer and unplug it. Look next to battery. You should see 3 or four small pins with a jumper attached to them . Remove jumper . Turn on computer. It may beep but most likely not. Monitor will stay off. Turn off computer. Replace jumper and your AGP card. You may need to go into your device manager prior to all this and remove display adapters as well as any driver packs you have installed. You may have to google your motherboard to find location of your CMOS bios jumper(same tiny jumper different names).|||First of all only one of those cards can run. If you want two to run together they have to be the same model and capable of it. Most cards have two outputs on a single card for two monitors. Second of all the new card is not PCI, it's PCI-express. Big difference. Uninstall all video drivers in safe mode and plug in only the new one. Then install the new card drivers.
Multiple Monitors...Multiple Graphics Cards?
Say I want my primary monitor to handle demanding graphical applications (ie video games) and I want two other monitors (3 total) connected at the same time. Disabling them whenever I want to play a game is too much of a hassle, so I want to be able to run them at all times regardless of what Im doing with the primary monitor.
The question is this: if I have an extremely powerful card that is connected to my primary monitor and a much smaller, much cheaper card to connect my 2 secondary monitors, will my primary graphics card be limited in any way by having a second card for my other monitors? In other words, will my graphical processing done by my primary card be slowed by having a second card with more monitors attached?
Logic would say that the primary card is completely independent from, and therefore unaffected by, what the second card is doing. I have a two card setup at the moment, but I have reason to believe that this logic is incorrect. My graphics processing doesnt seem to be on par with what I have been led to believe regarding my current primary card's capacity. I suppose I could use a 3DMark test to compare, but Id like to hear some thoughts on the matter.|||You realize there are cards that support up to 6 monitors. You don't need more than one video card.
Assuming you have a PCI-X slot, look at the ATI 5xxx series. You can even combine the monitors to play games.
The monitor connected to your primary video card will be driven by the primary video card. Unless you have a SLI setup, you will not be hampered because your 2nd card is slower. Your second card will take up bandwidth and CPU resources regardless if you have it enabled or not. If you pull out your second video card, you will probably get better overall performance and higher benchmark score.|||Well, your on the right path but graphic cards mirley render the graphics, for example if you have two graphic cards then they work together to render the video. so you can have one monitor and two video cards and itll increase your power.
The question is this: if I have an extremely powerful card that is connected to my primary monitor and a much smaller, much cheaper card to connect my 2 secondary monitors, will my primary graphics card be limited in any way by having a second card for my other monitors? In other words, will my graphical processing done by my primary card be slowed by having a second card with more monitors attached?
Logic would say that the primary card is completely independent from, and therefore unaffected by, what the second card is doing. I have a two card setup at the moment, but I have reason to believe that this logic is incorrect. My graphics processing doesnt seem to be on par with what I have been led to believe regarding my current primary card's capacity. I suppose I could use a 3DMark test to compare, but Id like to hear some thoughts on the matter.|||You realize there are cards that support up to 6 monitors. You don't need more than one video card.
Assuming you have a PCI-X slot, look at the ATI 5xxx series. You can even combine the monitors to play games.
The monitor connected to your primary video card will be driven by the primary video card. Unless you have a SLI setup, you will not be hampered because your 2nd card is slower. Your second card will take up bandwidth and CPU resources regardless if you have it enabled or not. If you pull out your second video card, you will probably get better overall performance and higher benchmark score.|||Well, your on the right path but graphic cards mirley render the graphics, for example if you have two graphic cards then they work together to render the video. so you can have one monitor and two video cards and itll increase your power.
DVI cable splitter, using multiple monitors?
I want to get a video card with 4 DVI ports on it (allowing me to use 4 monitors at the same time). If I wanted to add 2 more monitors, would I need another video card or could I use a DVI cable splitter (the kind that looks like a "Y") to allow for more monitor connections? When I try to think about it, I would guess that the split cable would have the same image showing up on both monitors; is that what would happen?|||The easiest way to drive 6 monitors would be to use an ATI Crossfire motherboard (such as an Intel X58, P45, X48, X38) and put two ATI HD5750 video cards on it.
Each ATI HD5750 can drive up to 3 monitors independently. http://www.amd.com/us/products/technolog…|||Yes, that's what would happen. You need to buy another video card or two, if you want to have separate images on each. If you don't need that and just want a copy to view on another monitor, then you can buy a DVI splitter/amp. I don't know where you can buy them, but I have worked with them.|||In a nutshell...yes, same image on both, you need another video card, I also suggest a 64 bit OS, Windows x86 doesn't like too much video memory, it has issues mapping the resources.
Each ATI HD5750 can drive up to 3 monitors independently. http://www.amd.com/us/products/technolog…|||Yes, that's what would happen. You need to buy another video card or two, if you want to have separate images on each. If you don't need that and just want a copy to view on another monitor, then you can buy a DVI splitter/amp. I don't know where you can buy them, but I have worked with them.|||In a nutshell...yes, same image on both, you need another video card, I also suggest a 64 bit OS, Windows x86 doesn't like too much video memory, it has issues mapping the resources.
How I put 2 monitors in 1 pc so i can use multiple programs simultaneusly with 2 monitors?
I have 1 pc with a video card and so it has 2 monitor sockets the integrated one and the one of the video card, i was wondering if i can conect 2 monitors and somehow usethem to work in the same windows instance, i've seen you can move the mouse pointer from one monitor trhough the other one and so you can have a wider view of windows.
How i do this???|||Probably not with what you have. Video cards tend to disable the onboard video, or need it to be disabled.
But dual head video cards are pretty cheap these days.|||If your card has 2 ports then try it.
You simply plug the new monitor in. (a reboot may be necessary)
In windows right click on the desktop, select properties and then the Settings tab. YouSHOULD see the new monitor. Click on it and make sure the that Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor is selected. Click OK and you should be working on two monitors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_monit…
How i do this???|||Probably not with what you have. Video cards tend to disable the onboard video, or need it to be disabled.
But dual head video cards are pretty cheap these days.|||If your card has 2 ports then try it.
You simply plug the new monitor in. (a reboot may be necessary)
In windows right click on the desktop, select properties and then the Settings tab. YouSHOULD see the new monitor. Click on it and make sure the that Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor is selected. Click OK and you should be working on two monitors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_monit…
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