Posted on 10/18/2011 4:39:35 PM PDT by freejohn
My video card took a dump and until I get the cash for another one, I hooked up to my computers onboard.
What happens next is beyond my limited understanding?
The computer will go through the whole boot process but then the monitor throws up a "Frequency Out Of Range" message and that is as far as I can get!?
I can see everything as I boot .. the white lettering that says Bios F2 and Boot F10 and I also get that loading screen bar but then that dreaded message (Frequency Out Of Range) pops up!?
Did I make a mistake in not un-installing my broken down video card's drivers Before going onboard?
I can't find anyway to change the Frequency for my monitor and just to make sure .. I have another monitor which I connected to and I get the same message!
The specs on both monitor and PC are linked below if that will help!?
I am at a total loss.
I Really need help on this one! 8(
Before you ask .. I am on my wife's pc right now! 8(
Thanks Everyone.
MONITOR
COMPUTER
“Did I make a mistake in not un-installing my broken down video card’s drivers Before going onboard?”
Safe mode, and ‘install new hardware’ IIRC.
I tried the safe mode option and can actually boot using the mode but before the home screen loads I get that Frequency message and eventually the monitor shuts off.
I can’t get anywhere beyond that message!?
You will need to go into the CMOS setup and enable the on-board card. When it first starts to boot there is usually a (sometimes very) brief message that says something like “Press F? for setup”.
What kind of a monitor are you dealing with here?Old VGA or a Flat screen.
If you have an old Multi-sych type monitor you may have to ajust your settings on the monitor after you have loaded the Drivers and installed the Video Card.
You should be able to at minimum get 1024x768 at 60 Hz.Most monitors will run that as a default.
If you can’t get it to work at that your video card may be to powerful for the Monitor your dealing with.
These are all important things to consider.
Turn off computer (hold power button for 8 seconds or just pull the plug...) Alternately press F1 and F2 at half second intervals to load the bios configuration. Enable onboard video.
My guess is that the resolution or refresh rate that was OK for your now defunct video card is too much for your onboard video.
Boot into safe mode (press F8 at start of boot), go into display settings, and set your adapter to “VGA”. Reboot. Your operating system will now discover your onboard video adapter and allow you to set a res and refresh that is compatible with your hardware.
My monitor is in the link in my first post.
It is a flat screen with every hookup imaginable.
As I said, I can boot using the safe mode but the monitor will not get past the Frequency Out Of Range message and eventually shuts down.
I can’t get (or see) my start up page.
“I hooked up to my computers onboard.”
Could you state this in another way?
Not sure what you mean?
My video card used DVI and when it went out, I had to remove it and change to the ‘onboard chip set’ which uses VGA.
Onboard is the basic display that pc’s use when there is no stand alone video card.
Sounds to me like your monitor might have gone on the fritz instead of the video card. What happens if you hook your wife’s monitor to your PC and visa versa..
Have tried three different monitors PLUS two Vizio flat screen tv monitors.
The card was bad, not the monitors.
I’ve seen this happen on a couple of HP monitors. There is a scan rate incompatibility between the video and what the monitor expects. The quick solution was to use a different monitor. You could play with the freq settings of the video output, but if you can’t see the display at all, then you are stuck.
Ok.Was afraid you night have meant something else.
When it offers going into BIOS do it and see what the video settings are. Set the freq at 60 if it isn’t alreadyt.
If you can’t get into the BIOS setup, I’m stumped.
If it is a Windows 7 box, what happens if you hit the F8 key and select “enable low resolution video 640X480” ?
Your windows desktop resolution is too high. Press F8 during the early part of the boot process and select vga compatibility mode. Than lower your screen rez to something like 1024x768. Once it’s booting to the lower rez reliably, you can go into Display settings and test to find the highest resolution your system will currently support.
Well .. EVERYTHING that I have tried has failed!
There is a PNY GeForce210 (Nvidia) video card that I can get for around $50.00 and was wondering if it will replace the Nvidia 9800GT card that I had?
I believe that it is a step or two below the 9800 but I don’t play games or do anything graphic intensive.
What do you all think?
Thank You
Well, you could manually reset the BIOS if you can’t get to the setup screen.
“Safe mode” should override your BIOS video settings anyway though... but maybe there’s a brief period before it does... and the monitor locks out.
Good luck. It’s ‘a poser’ fer sure.
First of all, did you add any drives/memory/etc.(even USB devices) before the video card failure?
If so, with the power off, temporarily unplug their power and data connectors, remove added ram, or whatever.
Reinstall the video card and boot to setup and turn the onboard video off. Reboot. (You might try this even if you didn't add anything and get it to come up, indicating insufficient power supply.)
If it boots, you may just need a new power supply, not a video card.
There is also a problem (or was) with the latest drivers for Win7 for that Nvidia card, so if you updated it, you might try reverting to the previous drivers.
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