How Do I Reenable A Vga

[BigPapaDean]

I  gave my son my old radeon 5870 card and when he went to install it his pc won't recognize it. So I mistakenly told him to disable his display but I mean to uninstall the drivers and so he did as I told him but now his vga for the Radeon wont work. My question is how do we re enable the vga so he can use this card I gave him? Please help  asap!

[TecHnOBoY]

Unstalling the drivers won't shutdown the card or VGA port.

I suspect he can not see anything when he turns on the Computer?

Is there a graphic card on board?

Is it a dual port GC?

[KaptCrunch]

are sure the moniter screen is working ?

 

BMD is the computer showing the bios screen when boots ?

 

need more info like motherboard is OEM or brands numbers

[Merlin007]

Hey Dean, assuming you mean his screen is now blank because of disabling the card, try plugging his monitor into the onboard vga connector.  If this works, then do the following:

- go to 'Control Panel' and look for 'Device Manager'

- go down through 'Device Manager' to 'Display adapters'

- select your Radeon device (if it shows up).  If does not show up, post back.

- with device selected, right click on it and goto properties

- select the 'Driver' tab

- if it is disabled, hit the button to 'Enable'

 

If this does not work, uninstall the drivers then reinstall.

 

Post back any details that might help if still not working.

 

Good luck.

[BigPapaDean]

No there is no onboard video on the card. Yes there is an nvidia card in it now as he could not see the screen without it. Yes it shows the boot menu and it didn't show the radeon card in the device manager. It also will not show anything other than the boot menu while booting up if we change to the Radeon as we have tried that. Tho it does show the Nvidia card in the device manager! Tho I will have him try it one more time as who knows what it will do now. My question is there a way to enable it without the radeon card in there? I really don't think so as that would be too easy! Lol!

[KaptCrunch]

Dean need to know what motherboard you have  that gonna use the video card

 

some motherboards need bios update for ATi cards so system see it  especially if OEM system  HP, compaq eMachine etc

Edited May 12, 2013 by KaptCrunch

[iEvil]

Some cards needs a dvi or vga converter, or splitter. I bought long time
ago an ATI card and couldnt get any image on the monitor, they said I
need a special vga cable.

 

 

 

[GhostfaceJim]

I would take out the video card and replace it with another to then uninstall the driver for the non working one.

 

Put the old video card back in then reload the correct driver.