I am using a Geoforce 7800 GTX, works great but i removed all the pins past x8.
I have just purchased a HD5450 PCI 2 gig DDR3 video card for my PCI-X slot , i choose this card as it claimed compatible with PCI-X and as it was PCI and not PCI-E. Maybe you can help, you seem to know your stuff.
Ok i Have:-
Dell Poweredge 2900 2 x Quad core 1.6 Ghz Zeon Intel processors.
Windows 7 ultimate on Sata Raid 5 array. Onboard graphics.
Ok i plugged in the card, worked without change of bios and onboard video disabled itself.
Loaded windows had output on all three outputs HDMI, VGA and DVI, when it got to windows login it switched to just the VGA output, windows run no problem and card was clearly working ok and could change display to 1860 dpi, all looked great, went to install drivers but did not see card at all.
In windows device driver, no graphics cards are displayed and i now have an issue with Standard PCI-to-PCI bridge cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12), looks like the driver is not working?? cant seem to find a driver for this.
i feel sure if i fix the PCI issue the card will magically apear.
And yet its clearly working.
Thanks in advance for at least looking.