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Michael 23
My aunt has a Dell 2350. In removing the cables from the pc, she
somehow managed to pull the onboard video right off of the motherboard
(she said she didnt know about 'those little screw thingies' on the
video cable, so she just pulled and pulled until it came off... good
grief. )
Anyway... this has now become my domain to fix, as usual.
The PC starts up, you can hear the boot cycle, and I can shut it down
with keyboard commands so I know for the most part it is working.
I have a cheap PCI card, ATI radeon RagePro 8mb, and thought I could
just install it and reboot... but no luck. Apparently this machine
needs the onboard video disabled in the BIOS before it will use a PCI
card for output, and obviously I cant get into the BIOS since the
onboard port is totally screwed.
Any suggestions?
Before I call her and tell her she killed her computer, is there any
way to make it recognize the pci card, and get the monitor to come
alive again?
thanks... and yes, it is okay to laugh, I certainly am!
somehow managed to pull the onboard video right off of the motherboard
(she said she didnt know about 'those little screw thingies' on the
video cable, so she just pulled and pulled until it came off... good
grief. )
Anyway... this has now become my domain to fix, as usual.
The PC starts up, you can hear the boot cycle, and I can shut it down
with keyboard commands so I know for the most part it is working.
I have a cheap PCI card, ATI radeon RagePro 8mb, and thought I could
just install it and reboot... but no luck. Apparently this machine
needs the onboard video disabled in the BIOS before it will use a PCI
card for output, and obviously I cant get into the BIOS since the
onboard port is totally screwed.
Any suggestions?
Before I call her and tell her she killed her computer, is there any
way to make it recognize the pci card, and get the monitor to come
alive again?
thanks... and yes, it is okay to laugh, I certainly am!