help! Dell Geforce 2 won't work in another Dell System

[dan-o]

I have a Dell Dimension PC which had a Dell Geforce 2. I took it out and put it in another Dell Demension of a friend. When his computer turns on it says "monitor is in power saving mode" and requires some type of action. When the geforce 2 is removed and the Ati card that came with the system is put in, it works fine. Could it be a geforce power issue?

(before you flame me for all these Dells, mine is at work. I told my friend to build his own, but he bought a Dell instead)

 

[dan-o]

update and bump, his dell just beeps as it does not detect the card. The card works in a non-dell system? any ideas?

 

[RTFMMonkeyboy]

What system does your friend have?
You might try posting on Dell's forum as well.

 

[vi edit]

Power consumption on behalf of the card would be my assumption.

If the card works in other computers except this one, and other cards work in this computer, then it is probably not getting enough juice.

 

[wojo33]

Hey, i'm the friend dan-o is was refering too. My dell "should" have enough juice its a p3-700 dimension, about 2 months old. This same card worked in a dimension p3-800 and it works in my p2-266 machine. I'm positive its seated well and when i called dell support they were useless as expected. HELP!

 

[midknight]

What is the card that shipped with the P3? Those things eat power for breakfast as it is, so if you stick a power-hungry graphics card in when the previous one wasn't then I can imagine there might be load issues. OEM PCs ship with standard parts, so they can spec the power source to be the minimum needed to run the box as shipped.

Also, I'm glad you checked the seating, as that would have been my first guess. If I had a dollar for every time either I or a friend accidentally only pushed an AGP card in halfway (ie so the first of the two rows of pins grabs it) then it would be beers all round...

ps. that beep can also translate as the memory or cpu not seated correctly. Its not in a slot, is it? I've had friends knock the cpu out of its slot while fiddling as well.

 

[wojo33]

i dont think anything else is unseated, because i can boot with another video card in the agp slot. could i possible boot even if it wasnt seated well? and this same card booted in a p3-800, AHH BUT wait, the p3-800 came with a geforce2 ddr! and mine came w/ a ati rage! maybe his has a bigger power supply!! i got $20 that says thats it! hrmz gonna go check, any suggestions on a good but cheap power supply? thx for help guys apperciate it!

 

[dan-o]

wojo33 you better stop posting and get back to work. And thanks RTFmonkeyboy, I will check the Dell Forums as well.