Secondhand card, no instructions or installation CD
I plug the card in, and start the computer, I get blank screens on a) my onboard video b) all ports of the new graphics card (NVIDIA Quadro FX 580.
Based on my readying, my hypothesis is that Windows is trying to make use of the new card, and so is disable the onboard video. Yet without the drivers for the new card, it cannot output from the new card.
Downloaded drivers from here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_fx_580_us.html (Technical specs available one tabs) Didn't give me drivers, gave me a drivers installer. Driver installer will not function without video card plugged in. But when I plug the card in, I cannot see to install the card... Onboard video is a VGA straight off the motherboard. I need the Nvidia card so I can have dual monitors--onboard provides only a single output. Machine is getting kind of old---from 2011.
Using F2 to get to the Bios, not option to disable onboard video.