Input Not Supported

[rhpmike]

Hi,

I do not know much about computers but usually enough to fix my own minor problems. I have not been able to fix this.

I installed my old GeForce2 MX 400 PCI into my parents' computer rather than the standard card that comes with the computer. Whenever I plug the monitor into it, all I get is a black screen with a "Input Not Supported" message.

The monitor they have is terrible so I'm guessing that that could have something to do with it, but I figured almost anything could handle an old GeForce 2 (64MB i believe).

Acer AL1714 Flast Screen is the monitor.

Here is some hardware information:


Intel Celeron 315 2.26GHz
Prescott
Socket 478 mPGA
90nm
1.4v
480Mb

Motherboard:
Micro-Star international Co.
Ms-7104
VIA

BIOS:
Phoenix Technologies v. 6.0

Graphic Interface:
AGP Version 3.0
Transfer Rate 8x
Max supported 8x
size band enabled

Memory: 512MB


Thank you for your help,
mike

 

[LA1]

Sounds like the video card is not working. Does the main board also have onboard video ?

 

[rhpmike]

Yep -- When plugged into it, the monitor works vine.

 

[kfc469]

do you have another monitor anywhere that you could try? If not, do you have any friends that would let you come over and try it with their's?

 

[rhpmike]

Okay I've made progress.

The first thing I needed to do was go into my BIOS and change the priority from AVG to PCI.
Then when i restarted computer with monitor plugged into the PCI card I was able to see it boot up and also the "Starting Windows XP" screen. However, once windows actually loaded it went to a grayish-black screen. When I switch back to other card I can see that Windows has properly loaded.

So i've made progess, but I still have a problem.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
mike

 

[kfc469]

check out the post I made on this thread. Its the last 1. I know you don't have a dell, but what I suggested should still work.

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=133167

Let me know if this works, if not I have a few other options