Well you could download everything you need from Dell before uninstalling the card. That way when the card wants to install you can direct the installation to the software you just downloaded. And it's just as easy to cancel the card installation at boot time. The card will simply be running VGA drivers until the drivers are installed.
Cheers. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Multiple video cards I'm about to go try exactly that. Hopefully this time the card will NOT re-install itself without asking. Thanks again! -------------------------------------- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org "Stephan Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/05/2008 10:32:40 AM: > By uninstall I mean using the Control Panel to uninstall the card and > it's drivers. The card remains in the box. Once you've uninstalled > and rebooted, go to Dell.com and using the service tag of the machine, > find the right software/drivers and install. > > Cheers. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:28 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Multiple video cards > > Thanks... > > What precisely to you mean by "uninstall"? From the control panel, or > physically removing the (non-OEM) card? > > A while ago, I tried doing the "uninstall" from the control panel. I > "unistalled" both the OEM NVS-285 as well as one which (finally!) > appeared > as "unknown". At re-boot, the OEM NVS-285 was none-the-less up and > running without asking if I wanted to install it. > > Well, I have a new collection of both NVidia and Jaton drivers to go > play > with. > > Thanks again! > -------------------------------------- > Richard McClary, Systems Administrator > ASPCA Knowledge Management > 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 > 217-337-9761 > http://www.aspca.org > > > "Stephan Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/05/2008 > 10:18:02 AM: > > > I manage many hundreds of Dells and have seen similar issues with MS > > Updates vs updates found at the Dell site. Try uninstalling the > video > > card and rebooting; then install the card and use software only from > > Dell. Subsequently don't automatically allow all updates from MS to > > that machine(s) for a while and see if that solves the problem. > > > > Cheers. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:11 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Multiple video cards > > > > Just the MS Update thingies. It would seem most of these would be > > hitting > > all at once (and thus all would have puked out by now). > > > > NOT an ideal solution, but I'm going to try an install to a new > > partition, > > with the additional card installed, to see what it does. (This is not > > > ideal because our DBA may have to do a lot of re-installation of his > > management and development tools, but... [EMAIL PROTECTED]&!!!) > > -------------------------------------- > > Richard McClary, Systems Administrator > > ASPCA Knowledge Management > > 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 > > 217-337-9761 > > http://www.aspca.org > > > > > > "Joe Heaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/05/2008 09:46:23 AM: > > > > > Any recent patches/updates, video driver updates, etc? > > > > > > > > > Joe Heaton > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 7:43 AM > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > > Subject: Multiple video cards > > > > > > HELP!!!! > > > > > > This has just started happening the past two weeks... > > > > > > Our typical setup is a Dell PWS-390, which comes OEM with an NVidia > > NVS > > > 285 (runs two monitors). We need three or four monitors. We could > > not > > > get any ATI cards to give us a usable system, but we found a > dual-port > > > (VGA) card with NVidia 5200 chips on it that works - until lately! > > > > > > The scenario goes, a machine will crash. On startup, the black with > > WIN > > > logo will show, but the 3 blue square moving across the screen will > > hang > > > and remain hung. > > > > > > We pull the added NVidia 5200 card, and it boots. We put in a new > > > NVidia 5200 card, and the system will not even acknowledge there is > a > > > new piece of hardware in the system... > > > > > > This is despite deleting ALL video cards in the device manager, > doing > > a > > > "scan for hardware changes", or even trying to run the Control Panel > > > "New Hardware Wizard" applet. > > > > > > I can put in an ATI card, and it will work once. On successive > > reboots, > > > that too will hang with the 3 squares (not) moving across the > Windows > > > logo screen. > > > > > > While I'm hunting for solutions, any ideas why a hardware setup > which > > > has worked for over a year would suddenly fail completely? I have > > > visions of, while I'm either on vacation or at a networking "boot > > camp", > > > all of our systems crapping out on us one-at-a-time. > > > > > > Well, time to go a-hunting! 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