PCI Radeon + DELL Intel Mobo + WinXP = Hangs at bootup?

[Jeeves 0]

A friend of mine has a DELL that, much to my cargin, she will not get rid of. The thing has an Intel board on it, with intel's onboard video card. Now she does a lot of video watching, and whenever she full-screens anything with the onboard card it gets blocky, obviously due to the on-board's crappiness.

 

Thus, I decided to get her a nice Radeon to replace the onboard, however I had to go with getting her a PCI card due to the Dell not having any AGP slot. Upon installing the Radeon, all of the bios boot messages show up just fine, as does the "Loading WinXP Pro" screen with the sliding bar... but then the screen goes black with two little white dots at the very top scan line of the screen.

 

Anyone know what might be up with that? I'd really like to get this Radeon working as a replacement for her crap-*** onboard video... and I got this Radeon nice and cheap (retail too!) but it don't wanna boot up!

 

(PS: the card WORKS... it shows all of the boot messages and the winXP loading screen, AND i have the onboard video disabled in the Bios... hmph!)

 

-J

[pimpin_228 0]

what kind of videos does she watch. like avi files or dvd"

[Palos 0]

Does it matter what she watches?

Fact is, XP doesn't boot anymore, lol

[tsonta101 0]

might be stupid, but enable the crappy on-board video card while still having the radeon in the box. maybe windows still miss the old video card ....ok, bad joke, but it could be (long shot) that adding a second video card (prior to disabling the first one) still requires the first video card....pray to god and if xp boots up and finds the radeon, go back to bios, disable the on-board one and pray again.....

 

btw what motherboard is that??? not having an agp slot sounds really old.......plus it could be an incompatibility issue (mobo vs radeon)...

 

 

i hope i have not confused you, post the results if you have luck

 

tsonta101

[Brian Frank 0]

Knowing Dell, it's probably an i810 board, possibly an 815 w/o the AGP slot (probably not). May want to try reserving an IRQ for video while in BIOS too.