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i just bought a nvidia 8800GTOC 512 MB card to game w/and installed into my PCIe slot of a MCI MS-7255 (v2.X ) board and when i go to boot up the system runs,but im getting a black screen..now i updated my power supply box to a BFG 650 watt..i have a pent 4 2.67 i believe in it..ive call tech support and ran out of all options i and them could think of.all thats left that i can think of is updating the bios on the MB,but want to confirm b4 i actually head in that dirrection..has anyone run into this situation and been able to resolve it...thx in advance guys

Well assuming you have checked that EVERYTHING is plugged in, it could be another part that is failing..as far as booting..obviously the screen is black so cant really tell what else could be wrong from that standpoint..maybe try booting with 1 stick of ram...in each slot...i did that for a similar issue and it turned out to be that one of the memory dimm slots on the motherboard went bad...not saying yours is bad but ya never know these days

once i pull the vidcard out the onboard one works fine w/the 2 sticks in it,but i will try testing that out..thx

is your monitor pluged into the video card when you try to use it? if it is, there may be a conflict between the onboard video and the video card, try disabling the onboard video then shutting down and installing the video card

Did you remove the drivers for the onboard graphics? I've never used onboard before except for on my laptop, but if the drivers are crashing, that's probably the reason why you get a black screen.

Also like what martini said, did you plug in your monitor to the graphic card? If the slot doesn't fit, try using a DVI-to-VGA adapter.

ive done all that mart and geo..it has to be something in bios that needs to be disabled,but i couldnt figure it out..comp tech i know came and took it to look for me so ill update you guys on what the issue was..thx again for the input

Sounds like you need to disable the onboard graphics.
Go into the BIOS, then there should be an option listed under chipset options.

comp friend has it now,but i will update you guys on what the issue was,and appriciate all the input for future referances

Damn i forgot about the on board gpu settin in the bios..<-----needs to stop drinking and computing at same time..(dangerous..like drinking and driving)