first of all i'm atleast trying to get my video working again.


i have vista set up on a new computer and i was trying to get a ati radeon 9200se to work.

i had already plugged the video card in, the monitor would work with the onboard video.

first i plugged the monitor into the video card but i kept getting NO SIGNAL on the monitor.
i plugged it back into the onboard video for now.

i got on another computer looked around and read i should "go to device manager and uninstall the drivers for the onboard video, restart the computer and go into the bios, set it off of onboard video
http://www.compatdb.org/support/topics/175...g_properly.html

thats as far as i got before things messed up.

i turned it off and hooked the monitor up to the video card, it wouldnt work.
then i hooked it back up to the onboard, it wouldnt work the first few times.
it finaly came to the bios, i set things back to the onboard video but after that windows wouldnt start it went to either crazy vertical bars of a black screen then the bars.
after that i kept getting NO SIGNAL.

its started working once then it kept showing NO SIGNAL

thats where i am.

when i get it working again i'll switch to xp

Hi there & welcome to PCHF,

If you're saying that there is no signal before you get into Windows then this is not a driver issue, so changing to XP won't help you. My guess is that either there is a problem with the graphics card or your bios has somehow become confused.

Try removing the power, then the bios battery from the motherboard for 5 mins - then replace and re-boot. Go into the bios and set as default settings. Make sure you dis-able the onboard card and then switch off, plug in your video card and re-boot.