I have a question/problem Im hoping maybe someone has cured or heard of, I have a GF2 mx440 that I have installed on another puter. However when i go to plug the monitor into it, it's just shows the background of the desktop, no icons, nothing else. I turned of the onboard grphics through the bios, switched to PCI as primary video since it is a pci card, and stil nothing. Anyone have any idea what this could be caused by? It's a Celeron 2.0 Ghz, 256 MB ram, Gateway Eseries is all it says, any helpp would be appreciated.
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Please Help anyone?
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Im guarentting you changed something in Windows, or that it is messed up, not the video card
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sounds like your computer is outputing to two video cards, if you have an on board video card them disable it.. the background display your getting is common when dual displays are being used. You can also try disabling plug and play in the bios.. works on some older computers
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I have that same video card, but it is an AGP, not PCI. What you should do is to make sure there is no primary embedded video card on that machine, if so, pull out your MX440, and boot up in safe mode via the embedded video card and check your device manager.
Ok guys thanks for the suggestions, here what I havenow, first, No option to disable plug and play in Bios 
. Now when i use the card I can get to windows XP screen then a message comes on saying monitor test : Monitor working check cables and power cord( which are all fine) then nothing. I have noticed that when i go to device manager I have 4 monitors, 3 default a plug and play and a ev730 (which is my monitor), I can uninstall them all through device manager but when i reboot they are there again. I have had 20 video cards over the year and have seen nothing like this. So if anymore suggestions i'd love to hear em.
. Now when i use the card I can get to windows XP screen then a message comes on saying monitor test : Monitor working check cables and power cord( which are all fine) then nothing. I have noticed that when i go to device manager I have 4 monitors, 3 default a plug and play and a ev730 (which is my monitor), I can uninstall them all through device manager but when i reboot they are there again. I have had 20 video cards over the year and have seen nothing like this. So if anymore suggestions i'd love to hear em.xSyzygy666x
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ok.....completely fill the inside of your computer with gasoline....light a match and BOOM....no more problem........
actually make sure in bios to see if the onboard video card IS disabled....caues it sounds like its using that and not your pci v-card.....im almost 90% sure thats whats happening...either that or your card if fried..........also have you tried plugging it in a different pci port?
actually make sure in bios to see if the onboard video card IS disabled....caues it sounds like its using that and not your pci v-card.....im almost 90% sure thats whats happening...either that or your card if fried..........also have you tried plugging it in a different pci port?