Thanks, but that was done as part of Step 5. -------------------------------------- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org
"Silvio L. Nisgoski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/10/2008 05:11:51 PM: > 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> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
