Longshot: Problem with Dell L series 566 upgrade from integrated video...

Antoneo

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Ok I have a friend who has a Dell L-series 566 computer he tells me. Well, he's not too familiar with computers and I have not seen the system yet so this was done over the phone...
He bought a PCI version of a GF4 440MX. Interesting. I have asked him if he has an AGP port and he said yes ::scratches head::

He said he seated the card correctly in the second white slot from the right and turned the computer on with the monitor connected to the GF4. No display. Turns out the integrated video port still works and so I told him to switch the primary display in the BIOS from Integrated to PCI. He saves and exits. Upon rebooting and the monitor connected to the GF4, there is still no display.

So does anyone have any suggestions or possibly someone has a Dell computer and upgraded from integrated video?
 

Antoneo

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Originally posted by: Adul
i had a dell desktop, but I think it worked without ahitch. maybe a bios update?
Hey adul, I will kick your butt one of these days in bw ;). Well my friend is either not correctly doing what I told him to do over the phone or its something else :confused:. Good idea on the bios update.
 

Chadder007

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On that series I know they started shipping them out with A07 BIOS....these had quite a few problems....they are up to A14! on these systems now. Quite a lot has been changed......
 

Antoneo

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Originally posted by: Chadder007
On that series I know they started shipping them out with A07 BIOS....these had quite a few problems....they are up to A14! on these systems now. Quite a lot has been changed......
Oh, seems like you know dell computers :). Thanks, I'll try to get him to update the bios...