Hello, I had a GeForce4 video card on this computer and a GeForce FX 5200 on my other computer so I wanted to switch them so this pc had the FX 5200, but when I plugged in to the pc and I plugged the monitor in it the monitor displays nothing.

I have to use the Geforce4 to have something shown in the monitor.

The GeForce4 uses another entrance than the GeForce FX 5200. (GeForce4 uses AGP and GeForce FX 5200 uses PCI).

Help anyone?

Thanks a lot.

They are not both in at the same time are they?

You will need to uninstall the old drivers & install the proper ones for the pci card.

With just the pci card installed:

enter Safe Options by tapping the F8 key after BIOS POST:

Boot the computer to "Enable VGA Mode".
Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs.
- Find your video driver package & uninstall
While in Control Panel, go to System, Hardware
Device Manager. Expand (Click +) besides Video
-Any devices listed, Right Click, Choose Uninstall
Reboot the Machine - It will re-detect your video card
Re-install the drivers
Go back to Device Manager and change your monitor
definition to the correct vendor/model.

If you were only using the pci & still get no signal try another pci slot & make sure it is "seated" well.

U sure u mean pci, and not pci-express. I would think that u would probably get better frame rates with a gf4 over a gf 5xxx w/ pci, simple from bandwidth issues. Could be wrong though, as I don't really know the gf line. Havne't been gf user since gf2. Y would u upgrade to a pci though? I'm suprised there still made actually.
-John

Oh well if PCI is slower than AGP then I wont switch them because my purpose was to switch to geforce5200 on this computer so it would be faster but it wont! Thx to both.