If you have a spare machine, why don´t you try plugging the hard disk of the production machine in it? If it just something hardware related, it could work, and then you would have more time to diagnose the issue.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 5:05 PM Subject: Missing hardware > 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> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
