Video card troubles

[Cyberion]

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.

[User Needs]

What model of Dell is it?


It might be in BIOS!

[Cyberion]

Dimension 4100

[User Needs]

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

[Cyberion]

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..??

[Cyberion]

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.

[Cyberion]

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