anyone know how to install Geforce FX 5200 Ultra AGP card ?

[Dockins]

need help, my card came with a power plug , the plug got 3 plugins 2 male 1 f/male . my ? is do i go from the card to the dvd then the power that was plugged into the dvd to start with ? hope this make`s sence. can anyone help me or direct me to someone who can help.

[SocceRich20]

You can simply take an available power plug and put it into the card. Or, you take the plug out of your dvd rom, and plug it into the wire that came wiht the card. Put one end into the dvd, and the other into the card.

[Dockins]

Thank you SocceRich20 i didnt want to plug it into another available plug till i found info....cause 1 mistake could cost you a power supply or a motherboard....again thank you for helping me , From Dockins

[SocceRich20]

You are very welcome. I have a GeForceFX 5200 Ultra video card as well. Enjoy it, I like it a lot.

[Dockins]

well it looks like i still got a problem...oh my....btw i heard from pny tech and he said the same as you did...but he was like way behind..like a day.lol...ok...my power supply is a Allied model:AL A250 ATX Max 250 watt and my Motherboard is a P4ITA2 ECS-Elitegroup ive a cd rom , cd-rewriter and dvd reader its a LG floppy disk and Iomega 100 mb zip drive. im seeing double of everything and cant read anything but if i choose 16 colors ive got bad color but i can read and see everything...games etc look crappy ive took a jpg photo with my webcam of whut it looks like when it installs 256 colors or 24 high 16 high....so i took it out and put my NVida Riva TNT 64/64 pro back in...workd fine but the new card...for some reason i cant seem to get it to work right. oh my monitors are elements , i got a digital and a samsung and a e-machine monitor....alltho this isnt a e-machine.even try`d that..lol....ok...any suggestions...besides me fogging up your time...sorry to be a pain....

[SocceRich20]

Don't use the drivers that came with the video card. Remove the drivers, then with your basic video wihout drivers, go to pny's website and get the drivers there. That should fix the problem.

[Dockins]

thank you SocceRich20 it works great....big diff....im gonna take the driver download and burn it on a disk incase i need to format in the future. took 2 hrs to download lol im on a dial up no cable is available out here in the country....lol...so slow is better than nothing...again thank you so much. From Dockins

[SocceRich20]

No problem. I also have 56k, but I am getting 2 way cable on August 14th. Hope you enjoy your FX5200 Ultra. I sure like mine a lot.

[Dockins]

2 way cable ??? lol.....i asked when they thought cable would be out here in the country and they said....maybe in 2 to 3 years...they said move to town....lol...naw nothing like the country....and its only 27 miles to town so i thought ISDN may be a choice. the games are lots better on this new card....no glitches , a lot more smoother to. good thing i joined this site. otherwise id proberly put it in my junk collection box . lol...

[dr_roberts49]

I also have the FX 5200. The drivers that came with it totally sucked, but when I got the unified drivers specifically for the FX cards from NVIDIA's web site, everything worked great! You need those FX drivers, which work hand-in-hand with the FX cards and DirectX 9.

Robert