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mswertfager · 05-21-09

Let me save you some time...its not your power adapter...I went down that route and upgraded to a BFG 450W ATX GS series power supply same prob...

My end conclusion from reviewing postings all day and installing drivers, hardware (new video cards, power supplies) etc....is that this is a flawed Dell design. I'll find the closest I can get to an upgraded machine...probably 1 2GB DIMM and try to recover for all the lost time from work trying to solve this. Below are some of the things I tried and got no where with...hopefully it will save you all some time.

1) After installing 4gb of ram in both dimm slots, the graphics drivers were gone on the system...Crucial thought the drivers got clobbered,

1a) So I chased down the graphics drivers. Installing was not possible as the graphics card was not recognized...Installing the drivers from Nvidia provied the error "NVidia setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with yourcurrent hardware."

1b) I noticed that the Display Adapters in the Device Manager listing was missing. (bad sign)

1c) BFG (Nvidia reseller) said it was the power supply, the extra memory was preventing enough juice to getting to my graphics card...$70, 2hours, and an additional 150W later, I had a 450W prower supply installed. No dice....same errors.

1d) Tried another graphics card (ATI Radeon HD 4670) ...still not a working...but in worse ways, could not even get to the login screen

2) Online I found postings from some people were having similar problems ("Display Adapters" missing from Device Manager) with different computer systems. They solved it via reinstalling the chipset. Found the chipset on Dell's site...installed...no dice...same problem persists.

3) Switched the old memory back in...viola! it works again.

Still looking for exactly the problem...can the Optiplex not handle 2 Dimms? 2 Dimms that add up to 4GB, or 4GB?

-Michael

My Relevant Specs:

Optiplex 320
XP PRO SP3
GeForce 9400 GT 512 MB
1 GB RAM 1DIMM (trying to upgrade to 4GB RAM 2DIMMS)
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mswertfager New to Overclock.net Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 1 Rep: 0 Unique Rep: 0 Trader Rating: 0	Let me save you some time...its not your power adapter...I went down that route and upgraded to a BFG 450W ATX GS series power supply same prob... My end conclusion from reviewing postings all day and installing drivers, hardware (new video cards, power supplies) etc....is that this is a flawed Dell design. I'll find the closest I can get to an upgraded machine...probably 1 2GB DIMM and try to recover for all the lost time from work trying to solve this. Below are some of the things I tried and got no where with...hopefully it will save you all some time. 1) After installing 4gb of ram in both dimm slots, the graphics drivers were gone on the system...Crucial thought the drivers got clobbered, 1a) So I chased down the graphics drivers. Installing was not possible as the graphics card was not recognized...Installing the drivers from Nvidia provied the error "NVidia setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with yourcurrent hardware." 1b) I noticed that the Display Adapters in the Device Manager listing was missing. (bad sign) 1c) BFG (Nvidia reseller) said it was the power supply, the extra memory was preventing enough juice to getting to my graphics card...$70, 2hours, and an additional 150W later, I had a 450W prower supply installed. No dice....same errors. 1d) Tried another graphics card (ATI Radeon HD 4670) ...still not a working...but in worse ways, could not even get to the login screen 2) Online I found postings from some people were having similar problems ("Display Adapters" missing from Device Manager) with different computer systems. They solved it via reinstalling the chipset. Found the chipset on Dell's site...installed...no dice...same problem persists. 3) Switched the old memory back in...viola! it works again. Still looking for exactly the problem...can the Optiplex not handle 2 Dimms? 2 Dimms that add up to 4GB, or 4GB? -Michael My Relevant Specs: Optiplex 320 XP PRO SP3 GeForce 9400 GT 512 MB 1 GB RAM 1DIMM (trying to upgrade to 4GB RAM 2DIMMS) [Edit Tags]

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