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Win2k freezes on start up with new video card, please help.

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soup or man

Senior member
I'm working on this Dell Dimension 2100 with Windows 2K...it's got an integrated card, and in the BIOS the only option to "turn it off" is "PCI" or "Onboard". So i popped in a GeForce 4 MX 420 PCI card, set the BIOS to "PCI" and everything loads ok, until it gets to the "starting Win2k" screen, then the little cloud/line thing stops moving and the comp just freezes. I unplugged the 56k and the sound card(the only other devices in there) and gave it another shot, no dice. So i tried a Radeon 7000 PCI card and the exact same thing happened, so it's not the card...Does anybody have any suggestions on how to make it go? Thanks 🙂

EDIT: i just found out that Dell Dimension 2100's come with a 145W PS and the Radeon 7000 says it requires a 300W PS, that's probably what's causing this problem huh? I can't actually put this theory to test until later Monday, so any advice up until then is greatly appreciated.
 
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