2008-10-29, 09:40 AM
Do you have an integrated graphics chip? If so, your PC may be doing what mine did when I installed a new graphics card.
When I installed my new graphics card, I would see the boot screen, but once windows started loading, it went black, but I could still hear the sound of windows booting in the background. What I did to fix it was to plug my monitor back into the old integrated chip. When I did that, I could see windows. Right click your desktop (XP instructions, don't know about vista) and select properties. Then go to the settings tab, if it did what mine was doing, there will be a two monitor set-up on this screen now. Click on the monitor that list your new graphics card.
You should see some boxes to tick, click "use this as the primary display" or something like that. Tick it, click the other monitor image to check the properties of the old card, and make sure to untick the box that says "extend windows onto this display". That should disable you old integrated chip. Click ok, everything will go black again. Now plug your monitor into the new graphics card and everything should be working. This may not be a definate fix for you, but it's what I had to do to get my card to work properly. By default, my PC was still trying to display everything off the old integrated chip after I installed the new card.
When I installed my new graphics card, I would see the boot screen, but once windows started loading, it went black, but I could still hear the sound of windows booting in the background. What I did to fix it was to plug my monitor back into the old integrated chip. When I did that, I could see windows. Right click your desktop (XP instructions, don't know about vista) and select properties. Then go to the settings tab, if it did what mine was doing, there will be a two monitor set-up on this screen now. Click on the monitor that list your new graphics card.
You should see some boxes to tick, click "use this as the primary display" or something like that. Tick it, click the other monitor image to check the properties of the old card, and make sure to untick the box that says "extend windows onto this display". That should disable you old integrated chip. Click ok, everything will go black again. Now plug your monitor into the new graphics card and everything should be working. This may not be a definate fix for you, but it's what I had to do to get my card to work properly. By default, my PC was still trying to display everything off the old integrated chip after I installed the new card.