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Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 won't boot

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Ferrier13

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I have a HP 7700 machine that I'm trying to get a Quadro NVS 290 PCI-e gfx card installeda nd working so that I can setup a dual display station. I have the latest drivers from Nvidia's website installed.

I have the DVI to VGA dual monitor dongle connected tot he DVI port on the card. When I boot the PC, it shows the bios splash screen and the dos startup. Then it shows the windows 7 logo splash. Then the screen goes to sleep and there is no video output. I know it continues to load to the login screen because it plays the windows sound and I've been able to use keyboard shortcuts to login and shutdown the machine.

Any suggestions?
 
Sounds like the card is trying to drive the monitor at a resolution or refresh rate that it can't take.
I think you need to boot into safe mode and change the resolution and/or refresh rate there to something low and safe like 640 x 480 at 60hz. Then reboot and go into windows normally and change the setting again what the monitor can take.
 
I have booted into safe mode and the resolution is set to 800 x 600, which is the lowest I can set it at. I have also booted without the card using the on board and lowered it there as well. Still same problem. Any other suggestions?
 
Is it switching to one of the other outputs for the primary display? Did you try plugging the monitor into the other outputs or the onboard video after it's booted?
 
So i finnaly got it figured out. I had it running through the DVI to dual VGA dongle to KVM to monitor. I took it off the KVM and whamo... it works.. aparently you can't have DVI-VGA-KVM. *Shrug* who knew.
 
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