I'm in the process of upgrading my PC. Well, pretty much all of my PC - just keeping the hard drives and optical drives. I've run into a little issue - well more of a little bump in the road. I've got my case, I have my (used) ATI Radeon 8500 (good enough for me, I just happened to get it free), and I've ordered my motherboard. Now you see, currently I have a dell and cannot try out the craphics card. It does not have a drivers CD, but I figure I can get them online. Here's where my problem comes in, though - my motherboard (here ), seems not to have a monitor jack. Does this mean it doesn't have integrated graphics? Fair enough, but doesn't this mean that when I first start up the computer to install Windows (formatting before the switch), I won't have a monitor because the graphics drivers won't be in place? Or will the card do the basics without the drivers? I'm sort of lost here.
Now when I say the motherboard does not have a monitor jack - it has a very similar one. It's female, though, the same as the monitor's plug. It's in the picture below.
Can this be used as a monitor jack somehow? Maybe? I don't know.
Sorry, i know this is a bit of a disaster to read - I'll poin t out the main questions, but I'm pretty sure you'll want the background I described above.
- Will the ATI Radeon 8500 work temporarily to display on the monitor without drivers, during windows installation until I can download the drivers? Should I download and burn them to a CD beforehand (will that help)?
- Will the blue jack on the picture above work as a monitor plug with some sort of adapter, or does the motherboard just plain not include integrated graphics?
Thank you very much in advance - I appreciate your input very much.
Now when I say the motherboard does not have a monitor jack - it has a very similar one. It's female, though, the same as the monitor's plug. It's in the picture below.
Can this be used as a monitor jack somehow? Maybe? I don't know.
Sorry, i know this is a bit of a disaster to read - I'll poin t out the main questions, but I'm pretty sure you'll want the background I described above.
- Will the ATI Radeon 8500 work temporarily to display on the monitor without drivers, during windows installation until I can download the drivers? Should I download and burn them to a CD beforehand (will that help)?
- Will the blue jack on the picture above work as a monitor plug with some sort of adapter, or does the motherboard just plain not include integrated graphics?
Thank you very much in advance - I appreciate your input very much.