Nvidia GeForce 8400gs windows 8.1 help

[Tazzy2040]

hello

i have got a Nvidia GeForce 8400gs graphics card and i need help to install it into my system please.

 

When i put my card into the system and plug it into vga or hdmi there is just a black screen but when i boot with my vga cable in my on-board graphics i have a display.

when i try to install a driver it says i don't have the hardware installed when i put the card in after the computer has fully booted so that i can see my display and start the installer.

 

can somebody please help me?

 

Thank You

 

 

 

[Bonsai99]

when i try to install a driver it says i don't have the hardware installed when i put the card in after the computer has fully booted so that i can see my display and start the installer.

Graphics cards aren't supposed to be hot swappable...you might have killed it.

[DoubleY]

Graphics cards aren't supposed to be hot swappable...you might have killed it.

^This

 

Almost no PC parts are supposed to be swapped while the computer is on. You probably cause a shock of sorts thus frying either the PCI-E lane or the PCI-E connector on your GPU

[JAKEBAB]

wait what? is this a troll? let me get this right u booted the computer then plugged the card in the slot?

 

Im sorry but this has to be like one the biggest facepalm moments in history omg.

[sof006]

hello

i have got a Nvidia GeForce 8400gs graphics card and i need help to install it into my system please.

 

When i put my card into the system and plug it into vga or hdmi there is just a black screen but when i boot with my vga cable in my on-board graphics i have a display.

when i try to install a driver it says i don't have the hardware installed when i put the card in after the computer has fully booted so that i can see my display and start the installer.

 

can somebody please help me?

 

Thank You

 

 

???

[Tazzy2040]

it didn't work when i put the card in first time and turned it on nothing happened!!

[Tazzy2040]

is there anyway how i can test if the card still works?

[Tazzy2040]

when i first put the card in it was a black screen !!

[Tazzy2040]

and that was turned off

[Guest Generallee]

Good god ...

 

Let's not lose our sh*t here. You killed your card by hot swapping it bro. 

 

I don't want to sound harsh or something but .. how could you even hot swap a graphics card ? i mean come on

 

DUDE

[dragosudeki]

It was either dead to begin with or it died while hotswapping. I don't even know if you should/can try putting it in another system.