Old [HD 4850] Card in newer PC

[ErrADDict]

I recently shipped out my HD 7950 car back to Sapphire for an RMA exchange and I decided to use my old AMD 4850 card. It seems to work okay in my HT pc but when I move it into my case, upon boot up of Win 8.1, the keyboard is no longer functional and it hangs at a black screen.

I'm currently using the on board Intel HD 4000 drivers to run my two monitors. Once I plug in the 4850, the keyboard works with the BIOS and it allows me to log into Safe Mode, but if I startup in normal mode, the keyboard is unresponsive and, after the Windows Loading screen, I get stuck at a black screen. I'm forced to hard reset.

Any ideas as to why it's doing this? I just want to use the card so that I can play a few games while I wait for the other card to come back.

 

[aldan]

it sounds like win8 isnt finding a driver for your card and probably there is none.

 

[ErrADDict]

it sounds like win8 isnt finding a driver for your card and probably there is none.

Yeah, it's an 'ancient' card. AMD stopped supporting this series, it's considered a legacy card now. Should I install the Catalyst Drivers and then install the card?

 

[aldan]

id give that a shot.at worst it wont work.im still running a hd4870 and since i dont game its probably gonna be a while before i upgrade.

 

[ErrADDict]

Found out the PCIE slot is bad, moved it to the secondary slot and it works perfectly fine. Received my original 7950 back from RMA. Now I gotta RMA another part, just my luck. At least this time it's with Asus, I hear their customer service is exceptional

 

[aldan]

good you got it sorted out.