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• Always un-install by using Control Panel > Add & Remove Programs & always restart when prompted. Never allow Windows to install the GFX card!!!
• NOTE: Pivot brand software utility will crash your system after a graphics card upgrade - often requiring a restore point or Windows re-install !! Before you change/upgrade cards - Uninstall Pivot first - then re-install after - when card & driver software are installed & you have rebooted.
• If your MB has an integrated (onboard) GFX card - make sure it is disabled in the bios & in Window's Device Manager.
• NOTE: If you are using an ASUS ATI based card - Also use the latest ASUS Enhanced drivers - then make sure your card also uses the latest ATI Cat drivers as well.
  

Installation Tips

• Download the most recent GFX card/monitor drivers, then unistall all existing drivers using Windows > Control Panel > Add & Remove & then reboot then install the updated drivers. Remember: DO NOT let windows install drivers for the card !!! It will try 2x to do so for the GFX card primary & secondary.
• Go to Control Panel then Device Manager & select view hidden devices. Delete (unistall) all "greyed" out other monitor(s) & GFX card driver(s). (Might as well clean up keyboards mice etc while you are at it)
• Try the secondary DVI output head on your GFX card (if you have 2). This would be the one that is away from the motherboard side. Make sure the cables are actuallly a DVI-D or DVI-I (digital) cable, and not a DVI-A (analog) one.
• Did the monitor come with a driver disk? Have you checked online for your monitor's updates, firmware or drivers & installed them?

Things to Remember

• Depending on your display device (monitor, LCD TV, etc.) you may get different results depoending on the cable type you use VGA, HDMI, DVI etc.
• You can always call the toll free tech support lines for your GFX card or monitor issues.
• Installing an LCD TV instead of a PC monitor device using a PC based GFX card can cause various problems - it has to do with the TV type panel circuitry - not the GFX card. TVs (HD and otherwise) do not adhere to the VESA spec that is standard for computer monitors.
• If you have problems setting (or seeing)the choice for the proper or desired resolution, try downloading from the net the free small utility called Reforce.

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Disclaimer, Author & Feedback

The WSGF makes no warranty on the usage of this information/tutorial. Use this information at your own risk and use common sense. This tutorial was originally authored by DougoftheNorth (with submissions from other forum members). If you have any questions or comments about this tutorial, please post into the original forum thread.