Hi all,
I am using P4, 2.8 Ghz, 40gb, 512 mb, MSI Turbo cache VGA card (PCI Slot).
It has been working fine since a year and a half but yesterday when I plugged new monitor in with my PC, it said NO SIGNAL. I replaced the monitor with old one (which was previously working fine) it also said NO SIGNAL. Please note that I was connecting the monitor signal cable to the usual motherboard slot for Video. Later I tried with connecting the signal cable to the slot provided in VGA card, the monitor started working fine.
Additionally, when I removed the VGA card, monitor started showing something but didn't fully load the Windows and was taking long long time so I had to shut it off.

I am writing this question from the same system but I am little confused. Why the usual motherboard slot for video is not working. I think there is something wrong in the PC that can cause harm in future. Please help me!

Muhammed Ali

Howdy:

No, that is normal..

When the video card was added, the on-board video is disabled thus, no signal gets through..

When you removed the add-on video card, the on-board video started working but in default mode.. You would need to upgrade the drivers for the video card to get clearer graphics and better screen resolution!

Just keep the add-on video card in as the on-board video uses system ram to operate!

Murray

Thanks for the reply. That's what is disturbing me, my previous connection was with motherboard not with VGA card and it was working fine, why?

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Originally Posted by alionline83

Thanks for the reply. Thats what is disturbing me, my previous connection was with motherboard not with VGA card and it was working fine, why?

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Because you had all the necessary drivers for the on-board video and your operating system installed and working..

When you installed the new card, those drivers were disabled..

Now, if you want to go back to your on-board card, you will need to re-load the specific drivers for that chipset and use those rather than the generic drivers provided by Microsoft!

Murray