Trying to install my old graphics card

[Sean Prince]

Hi Guys I was wondering if you can help me, I recently purchased a new PC from littlewoods here is my specs

Operating System
Windows 8.1 with Bing 64-bit
CPU
Intel Celeron 1037U @ 1.80GHz 49 °C
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
4.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
NM70-M (SOCKET 0) 28 °C
Graphics
Standard Monitor (1360x768@60Hz)
TFT MON 15 (1024x768@59Hz)
Intel HD Graphics (Elitegroup)
Storage
465GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-60U6AA0 (SATA) 40 °C
Optical Drives
ATAPI iHAS122 E
Audio
VIA HD Audio(Win8.1)

I have a Radeon 5450 graphics card from my Old PC which was on vista and worked perfectly, But everytime I try inserting it into the new pc you can hear the PC load up but the monitor stays black, I have updated my drivers, tried disabling the intergrated graphics but so far nothing.

I play an MMO and whilst I now that the 5450 isnt brilliant it does the trick for now till i can buy a more upto date one

Any help you can give would be appricated

S Prince

 

[Rogue Leader]

I am looking over the list of cards on the ECS website for my motherboard and whilst it supports the 5xxx series it doesnt list my Card, so I am now trying to find one of the cards listed as cheap as possible lol

I would suggest buying it from amazon, for the simple reason that if you install it and it doesn't work because there is something wrong with your computer, they have a basically no questions asked return policy.

I did a quick search through some of those cards and unfortunately they are all outdated so hard to find cheap new, you may be stuck looking on eBay

 

[Sean Prince]

It doesnt have to be top of the line card just powerful enough to run my main game I play on this machine which is Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn andd the Min graphics needed is NVIDIA® Geforce® 8800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4770. So I just want one that is alittle better than those

 

[Rogue Leader]

I'm having a real hard time finding any of the specific chipsets they tested still out there in the wild. At least none for a reasonable price. is there any chance you can return to the place you got the computer and have them test a card in there to make sure its the card and not the computer thats an issue?

 

[Sean Prince]

unfortunately not as I got it via Littlewoods.com a catalog site, hmm there has to be something out there but Thank you for all your help with this at least i now know it wasnt something i did or didnt do lol