Video card troubles
 

My DELL p3.. the Geforce video card (AGP) that came with the computer 7 years ago just died on me, well the fan did, and the card gets really quite warm during normal operation.

A friend gave me his unused graphics card an ATI three colour or something, it does DVI, VGA, and S-Vid... I am having trouble switching my modes from AGP to PCI on the motherboard(BIOS)

I've been told to place it in the first slot (PCI1). My desktop just beeps at me.

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Yes I have taken out the AGP card.

What model of Dell is it?


It might be in BIOS!

Dimension 4100

In BIOS under the advanced tab look for
Video Configuration
Then
Primary Video Adapter
You can Select AGP or PCI

And for what slot,
I'd try Slot #2 it looks to be set for DVD's

Card Slot Card
AGP Port AGP video
PCI Slot 1 NIC
PCI Slot 2 DVD
PCI Slot 3 Wireless network/HPNA/PCMCIA
PCI Slot 4 Audio
PCI Slot 5 PCI modem

Ooohh..

So the number of slots is relatively fixed to their components.

EDIT:
Since its gone back to not recongnizing the ATI PCI card.

Maybe its a power supply issue, not giving enough power to the card..??

its like my DELL doesn't like outputting video from PCI, I got trails when the video stopped working and the network and sound cards stopped working at the same time.

There is a 55(60incl tax) 128 AGP video card I can pick up local, but I'll bring my old card just to see what the clerk says at the computer store.

The clerk laughed with me as I bought that AGP card. My computer runs just fine now, and I have even more video memory then before. 128MB woot