if anyone can help i'd appreciate it.
So my story is this, i have a Dell inspiron 530 Quad core (not the slim one). I'm running Windows Vista Basic, with 3gigs of ram and on board video card (Media Accelerator 3100 or something like that) that came with this basic system. Also a stock power supply, and i don't see a power wire for my video card. Do i need it? or is that optional? I only upgraded ram so far, now i'm trying the video card, but running into some problems: here they are
So I bought Nvidia e-GeForce 8800GS.
I first just opened up the computer and plugged it in. When booting up, i don't see anything on the screen and i get this LONG BEEP which never ends. until i turn off the computer.
So after reading a little, i tried disabling the onboard video driver and even uninstalling it compeltely (in device manager that is), turned off the computer and plugged the card back in. I get the same BEEP. I tried both changing the option in BIOS to PCI or Onboard, both of them don't work. I don't have the option for PCI-e in my BIOS.
Please tell me what i should do?
My next thing is maybe i need a power supply that will hold this card? please enlighten me.
So my story is this, i have a Dell inspiron 530 Quad core (not the slim one). I'm running Windows Vista Basic, with 3gigs of ram and on board video card (Media Accelerator 3100 or something like that) that came with this basic system. Also a stock power supply, and i don't see a power wire for my video card. Do i need it? or is that optional? I only upgraded ram so far, now i'm trying the video card, but running into some problems: here they are
So I bought Nvidia e-GeForce 8800GS.
I first just opened up the computer and plugged it in. When booting up, i don't see anything on the screen and i get this LONG BEEP which never ends. until i turn off the computer.
So after reading a little, i tried disabling the onboard video driver and even uninstalling it compeltely (in device manager that is), turned off the computer and plugged the card back in. I get the same BEEP. I tried both changing the option in BIOS to PCI or Onboard, both of them don't work. I don't have the option for PCI-e in my BIOS.
Please tell me what i should do?
My next thing is maybe i need a power supply that will hold this card? please enlighten me.