I recently purchased a Visiontek Radeon HD3450 (900302) for an old Dell Dimension 4500S. It is currently running a Geforce FX5200. Yes, the card in question is a PCI card. It is the best "officially" compatible card according to Dell's upgrade advisor.
The card, however, does not work. The system will not do so much as POST when the card is inserted. I can't see this being a power supply issue, given that the FX5200 (which works fine) installed in the system lists the same "minimum" power supply requirement, and actually uses more power than an HD3450. Unless the card is dead (doubtful), then I doubt anything can be done to correct this. The card is passively cooled and low power in general, so I have no real way of telling if it is receiving power.
The card is definitely not dead. If I boot into Windows with the default display device set to "onboard," the video card installs but can't be used. If I attempt to boot using the "auto" option, the computer completely fails to boot. Something about the BIOS doesn't agree with the video card in question: it obviously recognizes it as a display adapter, but fails to properly output to it.
The BIOS even recognizes the device as an ATI Video Card. I have no idea what's up.
The card was inserted in tandem with the FX5200. The system POSTed and booted without issue. Windows installed the HD3450 and allowed it to be used to extend the display. Removing the FX5200 immediately resulted in a failure to POST.
The motherboard is some random Dell board, chipset is i845. If anyone has any ideas here, you're welcome to throw them at me. In case I didn't mention it, the integrated GPU will not let me extend my display like the FX5200 will.
The card, however, does not work. The system will not do so much as POST when the card is inserted. I can't see this being a power supply issue, given that the FX5200 (which works fine) installed in the system lists the same "minimum" power supply requirement, and actually uses more power than an HD3450. Unless the card is dead (doubtful), then I doubt anything can be done to correct this. The card is passively cooled and low power in general, so I have no real way of telling if it is receiving power.
The card is definitely not dead. If I boot into Windows with the default display device set to "onboard," the video card installs but can't be used. If I attempt to boot using the "auto" option, the computer completely fails to boot. Something about the BIOS doesn't agree with the video card in question: it obviously recognizes it as a display adapter, but fails to properly output to it.
The BIOS even recognizes the device as an ATI Video Card. I have no idea what's up.
The card was inserted in tandem with the FX5200. The system POSTed and booted without issue. Windows installed the HD3450 and allowed it to be used to extend the display. Removing the FX5200 immediately resulted in a failure to POST.
The motherboard is some random Dell board, chipset is i845. If anyone has any ideas here, you're welcome to throw them at me. In case I didn't mention it, the integrated GPU will not let me extend my display like the FX5200 will.
Facebook
Twitter