Thanks! Another post said the cards I'm using are crap and to get some from another manufacturer...
FWIW: The 3 cards from "failed" machines failed to show in BIOS setup. An older card using the same chipset (NVidia FX5200) showed both in BIOS and in the WIN system. Higher price but hopefully less costly - we're trying some PNY cards with a huge heat sink and no crappy "SO KOOL U LUCKY" fan. -------------------------------------- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org "Ames Matthew B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/07/2008 03:36:31 AM: > When I rebuild my Precision 360 at home, and the windows updates drag > down a new MS driver, it forces a reboot and then a BSoB - repeated that > process 3 times, so I definitely know it is the MS drivers that cause > the problem :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > lists > Sent: 05 May 2008 16:18 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Multiple video cards > > I manage many hundreds of Dells and have seen similar issues with MS > Updates vs updates found at the Dell site. Try uninstalling the video > card and rebooting; then install the card and use software only from > Dell. Subsequently don't automatically allow all updates from MS to > that machine(s) for a while and see if that solves the problem. > > Cheers. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:11 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Multiple video cards > > Just the MS Update thingies. It would seem most of these would be > hitting > all at once (and thus all would have puked out by now). > > NOT an ideal solution, but I'm going to try an install to a new > partition, > with the additional card installed, to see what it does. (This is not > ideal because our DBA may have to do a lot of re-installation of his > management and development tools, but... [EMAIL PROTECTED]&!!!) > -------------------------------------- > Richard McClary, Systems Administrator > ASPCA Knowledge Management > 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 > 217-337-9761 > http://www.aspca.org > > > "Joe Heaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/05/2008 09:46:23 AM: > > > Any recent patches/updates, video driver updates, etc? > > > > > > Joe Heaton > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 7:43 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Multiple video cards > > > > HELP!!!! > > > > This has just started happening the past two weeks... > > > > Our typical setup is a Dell PWS-390, which comes OEM with an NVidia > NVS > > 285 (runs two monitors). We need three or four monitors. We could > not > > get any ATI cards to give us a usable system, but we found a dual-port > > (VGA) card with NVidia 5200 chips on it that works - until lately! > > > > The scenario goes, a machine will crash. On startup, the black with > WIN > > logo will show, but the 3 blue square moving across the screen will > hang > > and remain hung. > > > > We pull the added NVidia 5200 card, and it boots. We put in a new > > NVidia 5200 card, and the system will not even acknowledge there is a > > new piece of hardware in the system... > > > > This is despite deleting ALL video cards in the device manager, doing > a > > "scan for hardware changes", or even trying to run the Control Panel > > "New Hardware Wizard" applet. > > > > I can put in an ATI card, and it will work once. On successive > reboots, > > that too will hang with the 3 squares (not) moving across the Windows > > logo screen. > > > > While I'm hunting for solutions, any ideas why a hardware setup which > > has worked for over a year would suddenly fail completely? I have > > visions of, while I'm either on vacation or at a networking "boot > camp", > > all of our systems crapping out on us one-at-a-time. > > > > Well, time to go a-hunting! 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