My experience with going from a Compaq with integrated video to a
separate video card (and not really the latest and greatest, either):

1. Check the box for compatibility. Mine said it needed a minimum 300
watt power supply. The compaq came with a 200 watt P.S. So I needed to
upgrade the power supply.

2. There was a jumper on the motherboard that had to be switched. No one
at Compaq told me about this. While switching BIOS to external seemed to
work, it just didn't seem to work right. Don't know why, but changing
that jumper (forgot what it did) made it work better.

3. Are you SURE you have the proper driver for it? For Win XP, Pro, with
SP2? In other words, did the manufacturer say that it is compatible with
XP PRO SP2? That would be a sure check there.

Jean Bourvic

bobwarasila wrote:

>I'm trying to upgrade the video on my grand daughter's Dell Optiplex 110 from integrated to PCI video.  I bought a Chaintech GeForce FX5200 (PCI) card and find XP Pro (SP2) will not complete rebooting - it hangs - with the card in place.  I switched the BIOS from integrated to auto select video.  It boots into safe mode but will not boot into regular XP.  Am I missing something or is it likely the card is incompatible with a 2000 computer?
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>Bob Warasila
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