friend needs help, please answer

solidjake · 08-10-2008, 10:03 PM

my friend tried to pull out his old agp video card, the end to the right with the lock lever was coming out easy, but the part by the back of the pc wouldn't come out, and yes he did pull out the screw. i told him to just put it all back, replug everything. now he turns on his pc and it shows no input. abd he did plug the monitor cable back to the right spot

Auzner · 08-11-2008, 03:04 AM

Hopefully the PC was off. Otherwise this is too vague to really say much.

DarkLink2135 · 08-11-2008, 12:37 PM

He probably didn't reseat his video card correctly.

Take the ENTIRE CARD out, and then reseat it, it's difficult to put something back in correctly that was only taken halfway out.

obobskivich · 08-11-2008, 02:05 PM

so true, or he broke something and thats the end of that

sometimes with expansion cards, you gotta tug a little, but never enough to see the mobo bowing or anything like that, so he's probably doing something wrong in removing it (he got the right screw? cables still connected? etc)

RcRon7 · 08-11-2008, 04:51 PM

Some will cringe at this but....

plug the vid cable back in, NOT SCREWED IN. Use it to HELP gain leverage to lift the card out of it's slot. When the card is free, carefully remove the plug and take the card out.

Sometimes it is hard to get a grip on the end of the card where the plugs are. You don't just want to grab the card because you don't want to break something off. Then, like was stated above, completely remove the card, check the contacts for the slot, then reseat the card.

obobskivich · 08-11-2008, 06:13 PM

thats actually a decent idea ron

but if you screw the cable in, you'll have the lugs holding the card, and not the pins, so you don't risk as much damage (at least in my experience this is better)

or you could find a bolt of the right size and do the math

DarkLink2135 · 08-11-2008, 09:30 PM

Don't know why I didn't think of this, but a lot of later-made motherboards included locks on the AGP slot at the far side of where it screws into the case. Make sure the lever/lock/whatever is released. If it's pretty old or a cheap motherboard, it won't have one and I'm wrong, but if I'm guessing right he couldn't get it out because he didn't release the lock. It will either be something you need to flip out or press on in order to unlock the card.

obobskivich · 08-11-2008, 09:47 PM

some of them you have to move the card side to side, like PCIe retention things, I had a DFI like that, finally broke the stupid clip off with pliers because it was that much of a PITA (to give you an idea, lol)