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I have a GeForce 5500 grahics card installed and last night when i went to boot up I had nothing. I'll skip all of the details for now but found that some how the Bois was changed from pci back to agi. the same thing happened tonight but it only took 5 min. to get going instead of a hour. What's up.

Hi mfb,

Welcome to PCHF!

Does this help in any way?

1. Plug-in PCI card - with VGA cable plugged into the onboard graphics, boot the machine into Windows. Check in Device Manager that the PCI card was detected under Display Adapters. Windows will either have installed it automatically or will come up with an add new hardware wizard. You will see an exclamation mark next to the PCI card in Device Manager, it is meant to have this next to it.

2. Restart the PC and go into the BIOS, under Boot Options (Main Menu), change Primary Display to PCI VGA. Save & Exit. (VGA cable must still be plugged into the onboard graphics). You will not see the post screens being displayed (because its looking for the PCI card at this stage) but you will see a display when it gets to Windows.

3. Go into Display Properties - Settings tab. You will see pictures of two screens, one is greyed out. Right click the greyed out one and click on attached. Right click it again and click on Primary.

4. Then right click the non-greyed out screen and remove the tick from Primary, click on Apply. The screen will go black, plug the VGA cable into the PCI card, all will now be working ok.

Let us know mate.

(from http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/rl/.../ProPCfaq.html)

Well I turned on my pc and everything but the color is good. When I set the card up the frist time every thing was good. I've been using it for a couple of months and it worked fine. I had down loaded two programs from P C World and when I had trouble I got rid of them. I did everything in your thread but number 3 and not sure why I can't get this item to work . Thanks MFB

What happens if you adjust your screen resolution and color quality settings? Does it help at all?

Also, in display properties > settings > advanced - you can select the GeForce tab and change the colour settings on there.

Everything that was blue turned green but that waws last night. Went to boot up tonight and nothing on the G force card. Went back to the onboard and went into the bois and the card setting was back to AGI did the switch and I'm up and running again. Oh and everything is blue again.

Hi mfb have you tried to:
1. remove the videocard
2. boot to windows while connected to the onboard video card
3. go to hardware manager->system devices->display devices->rightclick on the graphics card and choose disable. Save settings and shut down the computer
4. insert the graphics card
5. boot the system and enter bios
6. disable onboard graphics/disable onboard vga (usually found at the peripheral section)
7. save settings & exit
8. continue booting to windows

The above should work, when it doesn't we'll hear,
Good luck, Bram (@scouse, sorry to drop in on the conversation, but since you're away.....)

btalman - glad you did mate. I'm starting to scratch my head a lot now.