Video card troubles 8(

I just recently bought a Levono H215 computer.
I do some light gaming and the computer seemed like a decent buy. After about a week I decided I needed a better video card then the integrated card had to offer. A friend of mine had an extra Geforce 9800 GT that he wasn't using so he gave it to me.
I installed the card and upon booting up the system all I got was ablack screen on my monitor. I pressed the monitor button and got the message "No Signal". After trying several different things to solve the issue, a friend suggested I get a new power supply. The power supply the system came with was max power of 280 watts.
I ordered a new 500 watt power supply thinking that maybe the Geforce card was not getting enough power. My new power supply arrived today, and it installed o problem.
I once again put the Geforce card in booted up the computer and got the same results..solid black screen. Pushing the power button results in "NO Signal" message.
The monitor hooks in to the video card with a vga cable..but the vid card has only a dvi and hdmi slot to plug it in. So I am using a VGA-DVI adapter to hook it in.
I am at my wits end..does anyone know how I can get this working?

Check the bios. The settings may be on onboard only. I have also seen some GPU's not load until Windows is loading. So use the onboard GPU to check the BIOS settings.
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