gx620 on gt730

[weedgamer]

I have a Dell Optiplex GX620 to which I am trying to add a GeForce GT 730 GPU and have been caught in a catch 22. If I install the card and turn on the computer, as the accompanying instructions prescribe, I receive a BIOS message stating that my monitor is plugged into the wrong port and that I should turn off the computer change the plug, and restart. The CPU is at full stop leaving a shutdown the only thing you can do. I did that and only received a blank screen upon restart. This state cannot be passed by. There are two BIOS options concerning the monitor state at start up and neither allows this screen to be bypassed.

 

[DSzymborski]

I guess the first question is: *are* you connecting your monitor to the correct port? That's typically the kind of message you get when you install a graphics card after using the integrated GPU and leave your monitor connected to the old output on the motherboard rather than the GPU ones. And if you have connected to the GPU properly, have you tried all the connection options? You should have a VGA, DVI, and HDMI all available on your GPU.

 

[weedgamer]

after i installed the card i connected one VGA to the graphic card and 1 VGA to the computer screen AND everything is black... if i take the VGA from the graphic card and put it back into the original VGA it says that i have it in wrong port

 

[DSzymborski]

after i installed the card i connected one VGA to the graphic card and 1 VGA to the computer screen AND everything is black... if i take the VGA from the graphic card and put it back into the original VGA it says that i have it in wrong port

If you're plugging the monitor into the integrated port with the GPU still installed, you're going to get that message as your motherboard is detecting that there's a discrete GPU installed. Can you connect your GPU to the monitor with the HDMI or the DVI ports?

 

[weedgamer]

I only have a VGA TO VGA PLUG no hdmi or the other one.

 

[weedgamer]

i found a guy with the same problem and one of the guys said this but i cant understand him. Hi, I had the exact same issue today. Not sure if you found a solution or not. I have an Optiplex GX620 and wanted to upgrade to NVIDIA Geforce GT 610. When I put the card in I got the same message. So few things I did. First I upgraded my BIOS from A09 to A11. You know just in case... I then managed to go up to BIOS A11. After that I was still getting the same error message. So I realized that since the driver is not installed yet the card acts as a default VGA video card hence it is only the VGA output that gives you anything. I had the VGA completely removed due to the low profile PCI but you can connect the VGA back and put that in the second slot in the back of your PC. Connect your original VGA there and boot again. From here it was simple, install NVIDIA Geforce and configure the card. I hope this helps....