dave424
03-12-2012 05:25 AM (2 days ago)
so i thought to upgrade from internal video to a card, tried an nvidia geforce gt430 and while most games worked fine my wife plays second life and for some reason her avatar appears as a pair of shoes and an empty head of hair with eyes floating in it ( the nvidea card did however autodetect and load fine. i then tried an amd-radeon R6670 but this card will not autodetect. i tried disabling the internal video then shutting down and installing the radeon card but my monitor remains blank. i am not very techy and have not seen a way to change things in the bios. any ideas??
Big_Dave
03-12-2012 08:28 AM (2 days ago)
Hi Dave,

According to AMD, the 6670 needs a 400 watt power supply and your PC only has a 300 watt power supply.

Be sure to set the bios back to the defaults.
dave424
03-12-2012 10:55 AM (2 days ago)
hmm, well ok then, thanks, guess its either a power supply or a vid card that only needs 300W, thank you much