First post, by jamesfmackenzie
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My first post on Vogons - a fantastic community here which I look forward to joining 😃
I recently picked up a cheap Dell Optiplex 380 Tower as a Windows XP retro machine
I threw in a known working Dell-branded Radeon X600 (model number F9595) - a passively cooled PCI-E 3D accelerator from the time with low power draw and low/mid 3D performance:
Unfortunately I get zero video signal from the card - the built-in Intel 9xx graphics remain enabled and continue to drive the display
I noticed that the BIOS has categorized the PCI-E card as an "SDVO Card". I had to look this up, but SDVO is a proprietary Intel technology used for additional video signaling interfaces (e.g. DVI) to the built-in Intel 9xx graphics. It seems my card is being mistakenly recognized as one of these SDVO add-in cards:
In Windows, the card is missing from Device Manager entirely and does not appear even after a hardware scan:
Using SIW, I can see that Windows recognizes I have hardware in PCE-E SLOT1 but has it labelled as "Proprietary" (i.e. not PCI-E):
I double confirmed that the card works in another machine (it does) - so it seems to be some kind of hardware incompatibility. Has anyone seen something similar before? Would love to get my Win XP machine working - any advice much appreciated here! 😄