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My Nvidia Geforce 7300le is installed and working and has the latest driver from the manufacturer, and when i play games on it the graphics are perfect but i cannot see any writing, compass, who i killed or even my mouse cursor. does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thanks

Just gave it a try. As soon as i enable hyperthreading and save the changes the computer reboots and my monitor has no power forcing me to plug it back into the onboard vga output. So i always have to have the hyperthreading disabled.

I got it sorted out. Thanks for all the replies. Just so any other dc7100 owner knows, when you get a new graphics card for the pci-express slot and your computer doesnt recognise it, you have to push F10 on the start up to take you into the bios setup, then look through the menu until you find...

I have no "del" option, only f10 to adjust settings. i assume it takes me to the same place you talk about, only i dont know what to do there. Is there a way to upgrade to a better bios or am i stuck with what HP gives me?

the card in the system

The system without the card:

Thanks for the reply. Just to be clear.. the bios is when you push F10 during boot to go into the system setup is that right? If so.. i have the following options available: Bus Options: PCI Serr# Generation >set to ENABLE PCI VGA Palette snooping > set to DISABLE PCI Devices: Intel VGA...

Hi Aliasaid No i am not sure how to do this. When i plug my monitor into the graphics vga output it just says "Power saving mode" as if it has no signal. Right now it is plugged into the current factory vga output that came with the computer. Can you tell me how to enable the pci port and...

gday. Thanks for the assistance. I am fairly new to computers. I do not have an 'old' vid card, just the factory graphics. I have been to the HP website and got the most recent update for the bios and did a flash reboot with the new vid card installed but am still getting the same error...

Hello. I bought a new video card, a nvidia 7300le pci-express and have installed it into my computer and turned on the computer, but when booting up i get an error message saying " 921-device in pci express slot failed to initialize". The computer shop i purchased this from said i may need to...