Additional Questions Re:Video Card Upgrade

[Rhette]

I am trying to upgrade my video card, I was reading your advice on a previous thread about the steps involved in the upgrading and it turns out I was leaving out a step Hooking the 4pin power connector My question is where do I go to buy the 4pin connector(it wasn't included with the card) and where exactly do I do the hooking up at

Video card is : PNY FX5500 PCI 128MB

My PC is an EMachines T2460 512MB memory and I've already upgraded the power supply unit from 250 to 400

Thanks For Your Help

Rhette

 

[honvetops]

none needed

that card powers up directly thru the pci slot. no additional power is needed* :hotbounce

 

[Rhette]

Thanks for your reply honvetops

Well darn I was hoping that connector was why the card doesn't want to work on my pc.

Could it be the card is not compatible with my pc ?

Video card is : PNY FX5500 PCI 128MB

My PC is an EMachines T2460

and if it isn't compatible what card would be a better choice?

Thanks Again

 

[nickc]

u will need to disable the onboard video to get any PCI video card to work.

 

[captaincranky]

You didn't say so.....

Did you go into the BIOS and enable external graphics? Did you install the drivers? (You didn't say)

 

[Rhette]

Actually I have a NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 VGA card in my pc right now and I had no problems when I installed that, I already had to disable onboard graphics when I installed the GeForce2 card

I did not go into bios though

I must be leaving out a step somewhere

Thanks for helping me try and figure this out