Greetings! One of my departments has a standard hardware setup consisting of a Dell PWS-390 which comes OEM with an NVidia Quadro NVS 285 (dual port) plus a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 for a third monitor (and a fourth, if needed).
This morning, we had the FX 5200 vanish from a system. HardwareManager, scanning for hardware changes, would not detect it. My bag of tricks has included: 1. Moving it to a different PCI slot 2. Putting in a new FX 5200 3. Doing a software uninstall of the NVS 285 and re-scanning for hardware changes 4. Doing a system restore to a restore point of a couple of days ago 5. Using a different motherboard We have a spare PWS-390 all set up for one department, but she has a ton of development, authoring, etc software on this system, so she'd be out of comission for a day or so doing nothing but loading software. My plans for early tomorrow morning include re-installing NVidia software, booting up in Safe mode to uninstall the NVS 285 and do a hardware detect, and lots of pounding and snarling. Any other guesses as to what could suddenly make this video display card undetectable? -------------------------------------- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
