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MLMckenzie
03-31-2006, 04:33 PM
I have spent the last week trying to figure this out. Perhaps someone here will have an answer.
I am upgrading my current video card (ATI FireGL2- AGP4x) to an nVidia Quadro4 900XGL - AGP4x) The computer is a Dell Precission 530 workstation - Win XP Pro SP1, 512k RAM, (motherboard is part# 32NCC) Bios ver. A11

At startup, garbage immediately fills the screen in the form of evenly spaced columns of characters that make it difficult to read the POST screens. Startup continues to login which is only slightly garbeled, and at a low resolution (not unexpected) I proceed to install the new drivers (I have tried just about everyone on the dell site for the card) but upon doing the restart of the computer there is an "Unkown Hard Error" and physical memory is dumped to disk.

I have already reinstalled XP once.

I have already cleared NVRAM a few times.
Is the card bad? (purchased used on eBay)

Sounds more like a software issue, since the card does "work" in safe mode as far as displaying something on screen.

Any ideas to try?

Thanks!
MattClary
03-31-2006, 06:07 PM
Is the card bad? (purchased used on eBay)


Sorry dude, but yeh, you bought a dud. The only possibility that comes to my mind is remove the card and reseta it back into the slot, make sure it is in good. If that doesn't fix it, the card is toast.


This is the defining clue....


At startup, garbage immediately fills the screen in the form of evenly spaced columns of characters that make it difficult to read the POST screens.
lots
03-31-2006, 07:01 PM
Indeed, if you see garbage all over the screen even before the OS boots, it is most likely a hardware problem. I've seen plenty of bad cards, and this sounds like the usual symptoms...
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