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Old 02-22-2009, 03:59 PM   #29
Hack&Lube
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Originally Posted by JohnnyFlame View Post
Ok I got back online with a HP tech and he said that the computer does indeed have onboard video. He had me look for a VGA port on the back of the tower. The only VGA port is an output which looks like as setup for a dvd player as in one yellow, red and white av cord holes. He had me looking for a female port but could not see it.

So if I can reenable the onboard video how do I connect that to the monitor?
VGA looks like this

It's a blue connector.

You will have to goto the bios and reenable it if it has been turned off but if you never touch your bios, it could possibly still be on and just not used since you dropped in a regular videocard.

As for your videocard, make sure you run Driver Sweeper (Driver Cleaner stopped being freeware) and clean out any Nvidia software.

1. Download the latest Nvidia drivers for your videocard.
2. Download the latest Nforce drivers for your motherboard/chipset.
3. Run Driver Sweeper
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Guru3D--...up)_d1655.html
4. Reinstall Nvidia drivers for videocard and see if that fixes the problem
5. If not, then re-run the installation for your Nforce drivers
6. If that fails, then try the onboard video and swap the card entirely.

Last edited by Hack&Lube; 02-22-2009 at 04:04 PM.
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