[jack-o-bytes]

Hello,

I have a farily low end computer that has

Motherboard: Winfast (not sure of model number)
CPU: 2.6GHz AMD Athlon 64 x2

I have fitted a 7200 card into the motherboard and uninstalled the motherboard graphics driver. Then when I got to install the card driver which I got off the internet it re-installs the motherboard graphics drive and says that it has Nvidia 6200 or Nvidia 6100B or something like that as a graphics card.

It is starting to anoy me now because I can't play even old games on it at the moment.

Any ideas would be great
Jack-O-Bytes.

[Smiles n' grins]

First, are you still hooked to the motherboard graphics as your display? No insult intended, but simple solution to see if your graphics card is outputting video.

Second, am I to assume your graphics card is some type of nVidia 7200 card?

Thirdly, I think you won't have to remove your motherboard graphics driver when you install your other one. What is your operating system (2000, XP, Vista, 7)?

[jack-o-bytes]

Sorry, I didn't make it clear enough.

I have put the graphics card into the computer PCI-E slot and then changed the bios from Onboard to PCI-E as the primary graphics setting.
However when I then plug the screen into the graphics card the screen doesnt come on at all. I then plugged the screen into the motherboard plug and it took about 20 seconds for the screen to come on and then worked as normal as if it didn't have a graphics card in.
I then uninstalled the motherboard graphics driver and it went to defult 800*600 display and low colour settings.
I next installed the graphics card drivers and it then for some reason recognized the motherboard built in graphics as the 7200 and re-installed the 6100 or 6200 motherboard driver and didn't use the card at all.
I then gave up after going through a load of other settings and driver things such as registry clean and deleting all the nvidia files on the computer.

[Smiles n' grins]

I have put the graphics card into the computer PCI-E slot and then changed the bios from Onboard to PCI-E as the primary graphics setting.
However when I then plug the screen into the graphics card the screen doesnt come on at all. I then plugged the screen into the motherboard plug and it took about 20 seconds for the screen to come on and then worked as normal as if it didn't have a graphics card in.
I then uninstalled the motherboard graphics driver and it went to defult 800*600 display and low colour settings.
I next installed the graphics card drivers and it then for some reason recognized the motherboard built in graphics as the 7200 and re-installed the 6100 or 6200 motherboard driver and didn't use the card at all.

Part of the problem is the way you are installing the Nvidia driver package. Since (from my personal experience at least) Nvidia gives one-package-fits-all driver, it will first recognize the motherboard graphics driver before the card. Since you uninstall your motherboard's graphics, your card driver might not ever be installed because the install package might never see it, only your motherboard.

Try this: now that your motherboard's graphics driver is installed, try running the driver install again. See if it recognizes the card.

Also, does your card show up under device manager? Which operating system do you have?

[jack-o-bytes]

It has Windows XP pro I think but it is definatly windows xp.
I will have to get the PC because it is at my unkles at the moment as he has been using it for office work. So yeah when I get chance I will do that and see if it works then report back. Thanks for the help.