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Dell Vostro... 4-Monitor... Quad or 2 Dualheads... Anybody Using?
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Quote from jficquette:
No mine is the cheap $50 card. Two vga and one s-video.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/fx_5200.html
Pain was the computer would not recognize the card. I had a friend to it for me. He said drivers on nvadia site were a problem.
Dell has their drivers for cards. Maybe that would be the better place to get them.
I was at Frye's and didn't know what slots the Vostro came with but I knew it had to have pci slot so I bought that card.
John
I've had "Dell video cards" before only to find out that they are actually OEM [not all, of course].. and a problem working with others.
Quote from gnome:
What did you do to get it to finally recognize?
My friend dicked with it until he got it to work. He still didn't get it exactly right because I had to disable the nvadia service because when I booted up I got some error report report "send request".
Once I went to services and disabled nvadia services I quit getting the report.
John
Quote from jficquette:
I think the drivers need to come of the dell site somewhere, although a quick check by me didn't find the ones for the 5200 listed.
John
For there to be Dell drivers, Dell would have had to have offered that card as an option originally. In the absence of that, you have to try and fuss with other drivers and hope you can get them to work.
Quote from gnome:
For there to be Dell drivers, Dell would have had to have offered that card as an option originally. In the absence of that, you have to try and fuss with other drivers and hope you can get them to work.
This guy built other machines for me and is the type to not give up until it works. I trade a friend and he also bought the card to put into an older compaq machine.
Ray, my friend, had issues with the compaq machine recognizing the 5200 card also.
So I believe that is why he believed the nvadia drivers were not right. But you know how computer geeks are. They always got some excuse.
From the internet I found a forum where a guy had problems with dell recongizing second cards. The "expert" on the forum said that the dell drivers were different in some way and were to be used for cards in general.
John
John
Quote from jficquette:
This guy built other machines for me and is the type to not give up until it works. I trade a friend and he also bought the card to put into an older compaq machine.
Ray, my friend, had issues with the compaq machine recognizing the 5200 card also.
So I believe that is why he believed the nvadia drivers were not right. But you know how computer geeks are. They always got some excuse.
John
Sounds like that was a "3rd Party" card... always a potential issue with drivers on those anyway.
In any event, trying to run 2 or more cards is always at least somewhat a hit-and-miss proposition... unless the cards were inteded for such use, like workstations models.
To avoid potential hassles, traders who are going to run multi-card really should be looking at Nvidia Quadro NVS or Matrox from the get go. There were designed for such.
To avoid potential hassles, traders who are going to run multi-card really should be looking at Nvidia Quadro NVS or Matrox from the get go. There were designed for such.