new video card

[billhedrick]

OK got a bright shiny new ASUS NVIDIA Geforce 8400 (EN8400GS) to replace my old Radeon ATI X300.
My board (MSI E7125) should support this, it's a PCI express X16 and the manual says it supports this. But So far both Ultimate Edition(2.2) and XP choke on startup. It was suggested I uninstall the Radeon Driver and in stand the NVIDIA drivers in XP before I installed the card, and I think I will have to try that. But the video in my XP startup just didn't show up, and when I did a verbose load in Ultimate Edition, the load got so far and hung up.

This is a bit of a stopgap as I will be getting a new mobo when money loosens up. I am going to try the software install with the old board tonight. I will post my success/failure later.

[razy60]

Hi i have the same card mine being the pny version, Have you reset your bios for the card, if your mobo has onboard graphics use that to get rid of ATI then load up nvidia when you have the card in place,
I found that the cleanest thing to do was reload Ultimate Edition with the card in place.

Raz

[TexasMike]

billhedrick,
You need to put the old video card back into the system, insure it is bootable and useable in both XP and Ultimate Edition 2.x. After you have done this you will need to remove the ATI drivers completely from both XP and Ultimate Edition 2.x. Reboot once more to XP and it should be working of the "generic" Windows video driver - DO NOT alow windows to "find and install" any specific video drivers on the reboot - it may go into the "New Hardware Found" routine, and try to get the correct drivers. If so, just cancel the action untill you are back to the desktop.
Reboot into Ultimate Edition and make sure you remove the "Restricted Driver" for the ATI card, too.
I'm not sure if you will need to use apt-get purge package-name (where package-name is the actual full package name for the ATI driver) in Ultimate Edition to completely remove the restricted driver, but it would probably be a good idea, as this insures you remove the actual program but it's config files, too. The actual ATI filename can be found by looking in the /var/cache/apt/archives/ folder for a filename similar to this: nvidia-settings_180.25-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb but containing ati in the name.
After you are sure the drivers are gone in XP and Ultimate Edition, then shutdown the PC, remove the ATI card, install the nVidia card, reboot to XP, install the nVidia drivers/software and reboot to verify it is working correctly. If all goes well with XP, then reboot into Ultimate Edition, check for any updates via Synaptic, or via command line (apt-get update), install any updates found, reboot once more, then use System>Administration>Hardware Drivers to install the appropriate nVidia driver software (see screenshot below). You should end up with a working nVidia card in XP and Ultimate Edition.
Let us know if you encounter any difficulties, and myself or some other Mod/Admin will jump in and help get them resolved.

nVidia Hardware Driver selection...

[billhedrick]

Thanks Texas Mike! I tried that and no love from the video card yet, I removed the XP ATI drivers, and your method didn't really work as there weren't the equivilant ATI deb file. I went to synaptic and trashed all the ATI drivers. I then rebooted and it did reboot into windows, it didn't try to reinstall so I might have missed something. But then I tossed the NVIDIA card in and it did the same thing, hung before I got the splash screens of either windows or Ultimate Edition. I am going to do some more puttering tomorrow, but I suspect that the card isn't 100% compatible with my mobo.

[Cell]

You might have to edit your xorg.config file to use the vesa driver.

Look in(under root) /ect/x11 you should find the file.Open the file,and see where it says driver under the vidoe stuff?Edit it to say vesa.Or you can reference to the nvidia thread in the 2.3 forum and see if it helps.

viewtopic.php?f=64&t=3503&start=10

[billhedrick]

Update on the windows "dance" It was definitely using generic drivers after I removed the ATI driver and installed the NVIDIA card. When I rebooted it that way it got to bios screen, and through grub. When I chose XP, it gave me the safe mode option, when I made my choice, it thought about it for a moment, and the video went away, I didn't get to the Windows Splash screen. I've tried live disks of various kinds and they crash out at the point where it should load video drivers. I haven't got to loading the new drivers in XP, but as I stated earlier, I am beginning to think my old 939 board isn't quite compatible with the new card.

[billhedrick]

yup I think that's it, the board I have is PCI express 1.0a compliant, I think that the current standard is 1.1 at the minimum. Well, I like the specs on this board and I think I will keep it for the next upgrade, when I get my system up to 2009 standards (I might get this done before 2010)

[Admin-Amir]

Hello billhedrick .

I think there is another attempt to try one for review.
Disconnect the main power cable from the computer.
Remove the backup battery board.
Remove the Jumper near the BIOS and Return.
Take one wire telephone cable - white or blue,
Length of 10 cm, Discover the strings on both sides.
connect the wire in bout sides of the battery for just 7 seconds!! not more.



Then, return the battery to the place,
Connect the power cable to the main computer.
Start your computer,insert the BIOS change the settings of your computer,
in the BOOT save and EXIT.
and please tell me what happens.

[billhedrick]

Boy I do NOT trust my skillz that much! I found their live updater on the MSI website, I am going to try to update the bios and firmware before I fry my mobo.

[Admin-Amir]

I respect that.
Can you just unplug the main power supply,
And take the jumper near the BIOS out and return the - jumper.
then plug back the power supply,and restart the machine?