graphics video card upgrade WTF??

[SHOnOFF 10+ year member]

i have a dell XPS 410 with a nVidia 7300 card which i removed and installed a Nvidia 8800 gts card. i used install disk that came with it and it says it was installed but now when i go to play a game it says current card is not 3d supportive and won't play anything. i did system check and says my video card is rated at a 1 out of 6 now and it was a 3.4 before. what gives? any ideas, i'm not too good at computer things.

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[gotparts90 10+ year member]

did you hook up the extra power wire? I think the 8800 has a seperate power wire IIRC rtfm and and double check install.

 

[SHOnOFF 10+ year member]

power wire is hooked up and fan is running, all looks good except no game play????

 

[chardy85 10+ year member]

If it was me I would uninstall all of the cards from the device manager and also uninstall the programs.

Then DL the newest driver package from Nvidia's website and reinstall.

 

[GlassEyez 10+ year member]

If it was me I would uninstall all of the cards from the device manager and also uninstall the programs.
Then DL the newest driver package from Nvidia's website and reinstall.

X2. uninstall old drivers and d/l and install latest driver pack from nvidia

 

[SHOnOFF 10+ year member]

oops i never did un-install any of the old drivers. i'll try that when i get home.

 

[AVSTANG02]

It's either because "DUDE YOU BOUGHT A DELL!!"

Or because you touch yourself at night.

 

[timaishu 10+ year member]

What everyone else said.

Uninstall all the video drivers first.

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

After you uninstall the old drivers, don't use nvidia's drivers. Use the much improved modded drivers from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com

 

[chase007 10+ year member]

Uninstall the old drivers, you can D manager. There's abunch of ways, make sure you upgrade your Direct X 9 drivers. Report back.

 

[dumple 5,000+ posts]

is that card supported by your mother board

 

[SHOnOFF 10+ year member]

is that card supported by your mother board

it appears to be, it's working, just not properly, if it wasn't supported wouldn't it not work at all????

 

[dumple 5,000+ posts]

possibly possibly not, im assuming you have the stock motherboard, it may not support the card i dont know

 

[SHOnOFF 10+ year member]

After you uninstall the old drivers, don't use nvidia's drivers. Use the much improved modded drivers from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com

that's all greek to me, i'll try the simple ones first. thx

 

[bread0710 10+ year member]

try getting driver cleaner then use that to uninstall the drivers. retart the compute,. then use the disk that came with the new video card to nstall the drivers, after the driver are installed restart. then go to nvidia and get the new drivers. see if that works