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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Pengwin on June 20, 2008, 08:42:19 AM

Title: Video Card problems with HP xw6000 Motherboard
Post by: Pengwin on June 20, 2008, 08:42:19 AM

I'm having a strange compatibility issue with an old HP workstation.

The motherboard model is xw6000, dual Xeon 3.06 processors, 2G RAM, and it runs fine except that I would really like to put my Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 in there, but for whatever reason when I plug that particular card in, it wont boot... I see the video card's info, like its going to boot normally, but then it just flashes to a blank screen.

Its an AGP 8x slot, the card fits and everything, and in fact a 128M GF4 Ti4400 works just fine in there. I feel like I'm missing something really obvious here, but I can't seem to find out what that is. As far as I know, the FX 5500 is the newer card, but it just doesn't want to work.

The solution eludes me.

Can anyone help me out?

Title: Re: Video Card problems with HP xw6000 Motherboard
Post by: xavier on June 20, 2008, 09:58:12 AM

Did you disable your old card before installing the new one?Could be a bad V card

Title: Re: Video Card problems with HP xw6000 Motherboard
Post by: stevejohnson1958 on June 20, 2008, 10:46:58 AM

Compatible graphics cards for your system:

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 (64MB, Dual Display, AGP or PCI)
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400 (64 MB, Quad Display, PCI)
NVIDIA Quadro4 380 XGL (64 MB, Dual Display, AGP)
ATI FireGL T2-128 (128MB, Dual Display, AGP)
NVIDIA Quadro FX1100 (128MB, Dual Display, AGP)
NVIDIA Quadro FX3000 (256MB, Dual Display, AGP)