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And because I wanted to resurrect the (Windows 7) system *now* I spend a little extra to have Amazon ship it NOW!
And I plugged in the adapter... turned on the system ... and it failed to boot. No display.
Arrrggggg.... do I have a bad video card? Multiple bad video cards? Checked and swapped out the power supply - power supply not the problem.
Finally, I worked it out. The system was replaced because of display problems. So I tried a whole bunch of graphics cards and it went like this:
AMD RX470 - no display. no boot
Nvidia GTX750TI - no display, no boot
Nvidia GT720 - display, slooooow boot
Nvidia GT220 - display, slow boot
Using built in graphics - display, immediate boot!
I buttoned up the system and tossed it aside. It works as it is and maybe that's good enough for it.
Then I tested all the graphics cards on a known good system - and THEY ALL WORK!
So it was the Win 7 motherboard that was wonky. That's okay. If I feel rich I can just replace the mobo, RAM and CPU with something modern and zippy. At the moment... I'd rather have the working graphics cards.
And I plugged in the adapter... turned on the system ... and it failed to boot. No display.
Arrrggggg.... do I have a bad video card? Multiple bad video cards? Checked and swapped out the power supply - power supply not the problem.
Finally, I worked it out. The system was replaced because of display problems. So I tried a whole bunch of graphics cards and it went like this:
AMD RX470 - no display. no boot
Nvidia GTX750TI - no display, no boot
Nvidia GT720 - display, slooooow boot
Nvidia GT220 - display, slow boot
Using built in graphics - display, immediate boot!
I buttoned up the system and tossed it aside. It works as it is and maybe that's good enough for it.
Then I tested all the graphics cards on a known good system - and THEY ALL WORK!
So it was the Win 7 motherboard that was wonky. That's okay. If I feel rich I can just replace the mobo, RAM and CPU with something modern and zippy. At the moment... I'd rather have the working graphics cards.
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