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clumsycon
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Guys, I recently installed an ATI Radeon 5450 HD 1GB graphics card. It ran smoothly, and about 1 hour later, it's having a seizure (monitor is going crazy with colours). Then went to blue screen of death. Then when it's rebooting, I went into the BIOS settings, and tampered with it. I accidentally picked the primary video output as "onboard" instead of PCI. Now I'm panicking and can't see anything at all. Please guide me step by step on how to fix this. Can't see anything now :( it doesn't matter whether I have to restore everything or not as long as my computer works again.

My PC spec if it helps (it's HP pavilion a1520n)

3.5GB RAM

AMD Athlon 64 +3800

1 GB graphics card

64mb built in graphics card.

The attachment is before I stupidly tampered with the BIOS.

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there should be a clear CMOS jumper on your mobo

 

short it when your PC is power off

 

it should reset the settings to go into BIOS once more

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Which one is the CMOS jumper? And where is it located on the motherboard?

the other method is removing the CMOS battery aka the button battery leave it for 5 mins and place it back

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What battery?? It's a desktop, I didn't know there's a battery

its inside

 

you need to open the side panel to see it

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its inside

 

you need to open the side panel to see it

Okay it works now, but I disabled my on-board graphics card so when the BIOS comes up, it automatically uses the ATI graphics card. But it only shows this thing.

(I can go to BIOS now. Is there anyways to enable my computer's onboard graphics card?)

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Okay it works now, but I disabled my on-board graphics card so when the BIOS comes up, it automatically uses the ATI graphics card. But it only shows this thing.

(I can go to BIOS now. Is there anyways to enable my computer's onboard graphics card?)

im not sure if old mobo support dual display mode. Check the settings in the bios. Or take a pic of the bios screen.

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Okay now everything works, but everytime I connect to my ATI graphics card, it is receiving signal, but it just says mode not supported

it could either your monitor is trying to display a res it not supported

 

is the monitor very old?

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It's a Mae 5ms monitor, but that shouldn't be the problem because it worked just fine for about 1 and a half hours, before it went nuts

could be monitor or gpu. Cant really tell. Just monitor the issue if it come back.

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