I went ahead and bought myself a new power supply and graphics card today hoping to play starcraft 2. My old power supply was a 300 watt piece of crap and my graphics card was a nvidia geforce 6150 se nforce 430.
The new power supply has 600 600 watts. The new graphics card is a Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 TI.
I fiddled with putting the new parts into my computer with my brother for the last 3 hours to successfully get the power supply in. Now the problem is, Im not sure if the graphics card is installed correctly, I put in the disc and installed all the drivers for it, but the only video card shown on my computer is the old one. I went ahead and tried to see if my beta settings would change if I had updated them. This is what came up, can anyone explain to me what happened?
I went ahead and bought myself a new power supply and graphics card today hoping to play starcraft 2. My old power supply was a 300 watt piece of crap and my graphics card was a nvidia geforce 6150 se nforce 430.
The new power supply has 600 600 watts. The new graphics card is a Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 TI.
I fiddled with putting the new parts into my computer with my brother for the last 3 hours to successfully get the power supply in. Now the problem is, Im not sure if the graphics card is installed correctly, I put in the disc and installed all the drivers for it, but the only video card shown on my computer is the old one. I went ahead and tried to see if my beta settings would change if I had updated them. This is what came up, can anyone explain to me what happened?
Ahhhh...Okay, so... if you wouldnt mind answering my next question: Can I just go ahead and uninstall the old graphics drivers, and then update for this current one? What am I supposed to do? Haha, Im a nub at this stuff and its getting frustrating trying to do this blindly. Any help would be appreciated.
Ahhhh...Okay, so... if you wouldnt mind answering my next question: Can I just go ahead and uninstall the old graphics drivers, and then update for this current one? What am I supposed to do? Haha, Im a nub at this stuff and its getting frustrating trying to do this blindly. Any help would be appreciated.
go into Device Manager and look for your old video driver. You can disable it from there and you *should* be able to install your new driver. I would recommend downloading the driver from nvidias website. It's a more recent driver than what is likely to be on the installation CD.
Sorry for not replying earlier. Umm haha, I'm not sure which kind of motherboard I have, mind telling me how to find that. At vampiric: Do I have to take out the old graphics card? Or can I just keep it in there since the graphics cards use two different slots.
Also, I just went ahead and tried to disable the nvidia geforce 6150 se nforce 430 but after I went to the website to download a new driver, it ended up being for the 6150 se instead of my new one. What should I do? Again all help is very much appreciated!
I went to bestbuy the other day, talked to a geek squad guy and he recommended the one I went out and bought. Haha, sorry
this is my first time trying to change any of the hardware in this thing. Now, I think the original graphics card was integrated to the mobo, its an hp pavilion a6000n, ( i think thats what the mobo is). I went ahead and tried the website after disabling the original graphics card through the device manager but it still tries to update the original one....
Well, I ended up getting the video card to register so I could try to get the updates for it on the comp. All of the updates failed and I had a guy come in and check it out, we sat here for maybe 3 hours just trying to update the drivers but they all failed to update. I just took the card out and packaged it up until I decide what to do next. Thinking about saving some cash to build my own comp, what do you guys think?
I think that might be a good idea. Evidently your current system is rather cumbersome to upgrade on. And at the same time you won't get the full benefits from that new GFX of yours since your computer, especially your CPU, will act as a bottleneck.
Good luck with it!
Yeah, I guess I was slowly realizing that just building my own one with parts that I picked out would be better than just trying to replace parts on a 4 or 5 year old computer. The only reason I just wanted to upgrade was because I didn't know if 400-500 dollars would have been enough to build a new one. Luckily I learned I had some money stashed away for just this purpose and I can now just go ahead and figure out what I'll need. Again, thanks for all the support guys, after tinkering with this dinosaur I call a computer, I've given up and have changed my course of action!
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The new power supply has 600 600 watts. The new graphics card is a Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 TI.
I fiddled with putting the new parts into my computer with my brother for the last 3 hours to successfully get the power supply in. Now the problem is, Im not sure if the graphics card is installed correctly, I put in the disc and installed all the drivers for it, but the only video card shown on my computer is the old one. I went ahead and tried to see if my beta settings would change if I had updated them. This is what came up, can anyone explain to me what happened?
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You're supposed to uninstall any previous video card drivers before installing the new card.
go into Device Manager and look for your old video driver. You can disable it from there and you *should* be able to install your new driver. I would recommend downloading the driver from nvidias website. It's a more recent driver than what is likely to be on the installation CD.
Also, I just went ahead and tried to disable the nvidia geforce 6150 se nforce 430 but after I went to the website to download a new driver, it ended up being for the 6150 se instead of my new one. What should I do? Again all help is very much appreciated!
this is my first time trying to change any of the hardware in this thing. Now, I think the original graphics card was integrated to the mobo, its an hp pavilion a6000n, ( i think thats what the mobo is). I went ahead and tried the website after disabling the original graphics card through the device manager but it still tries to update the original one....
Well, after trying to find a link to download the program, I found the red text that says its been discontinued....
Yeah, I guess I was slowly realizing that just building my own one with parts that I picked out would be better than just trying to replace parts on a 4 or 5 year old computer. The only reason I just wanted to upgrade was because I didn't know if 400-500 dollars would have been enough to build a new one. Luckily I learned I had some money stashed away for just this purpose and I can now just go ahead and figure out what I'll need. Again, thanks for all the support guys, after tinkering with this dinosaur I call a computer, I've given up and have changed my course of action!