I have a Dell Dimension 3000 2.8GB with 1GB RAM. I installed a PowerColor Radeon 9250 256MB PCI card a year ago. When I installed it, I had problems getting the computer to recognize the card, I called Dell and they had me type something in the command prompt and it worked. Today I just unplugged everything from the back of my computer and installed a new sound card and speakers. When I rebooted, the computer wouldn't recogize the Radeon card, just the onboard card. I tried disabling the onboard card and uninstalling it, but still nothing. I don't remember what command I typed the last time this happened and I don't have a valid warranty.

Any ideas on how to get my computer to recognize the Radeon instead of the onboard? I went into BIOS to make sure that it was set to auto detect.

Thanks,

Doug

Found a thread about this below

So it looks like I need a new motherboard, but I know nothing about them. Any suggestions on which of these are good?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2010200280 1070509907&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=280

Hello! Welcome to TechSpot!

Isn't that Dell propietary? Meaning the MoBo is in pieces inside.
If so you'll only be able to replace with a Dell MoBo.
You could consider taking out everything and putting it in a
generic case.
This way your getting fresh Psu Case and MoBo.

My mobo is in one piece, a poster in another thread said he was able to use a new mobo in his dell: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic29193-pg2.html&pp=20

Well, the mobo is already shipped from newegg so I guess we will see. I chose this mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131460 along with a nvidia 6600 oc vid card and a 500w psu. I'll let everyone know how it works, might be a decent fix to the dell/radeon problem.

Doug

Thats cool!
I hope all goes well!!!!