I am completely mystified with this and it's driving me nuts. I have a Dell 690 (XP) which has been running quite sweetly for 2 1/2 years no problem. I switched it on on Monday morning it spins up for 3 seconds then nothing. We replaced the power switch - no change. We replaced the power supply - no change. We replaced the motherboard - no change. We changed the graphics card and the machine booted right up! Bad graphics card right? wrong. The card I was using is a 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 800, I replaced it with an Nvidia FX4500. Some of my software doesn't work well with the Nvidia so I purchased a replacement Realizm 800 card, put it in the Dell and guess what? it won't boot. Corrupt driver I hear you say! Removed the driver and deleted all remnants of 3DLabs software in safe mode. It still won't boot. Pop the FX4500 in and away we go. Next I tested both the Realizm 800 cards in another machine and booted up no problem both times. So there's nothing wrong with cards, right? I think the machine is hanging onto some corrupted configuration or the like and I cannot clear it. This is the funkiest thing can someone help me put this to rest?
Cheers
Allojohn
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Mr Bishop, thanks for your help. I did what you suggested to no avail. This card is compatible with my system - I've been using it for over two years. It just stopped working and a replacement card has the same result. I still favour a corrupt driver and the system holding onto something.
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Hi... I've had the same problem with my 690 except mine suddenly decided it didn't like its graphics card (and began to progressively eat hard disks, but I think that's another problem)
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