Hello,
A week or so ago, my Radeon x600 card stopped working, so I called Alienware tech support and they sent me a new one. When I installed it, it worked fine. When I rebooted the computer, and every time I have shut down or hibernated since then, it loaded the opposite adapter from what it was running when it shut down.
Now the computer constantly switches every time I shut down or hibernate. If the Radeon was being used when I shut down, it loads the onboard card when I boot up the computer, and vice-versa. This leaves me crawling behind the computer to switch the monitor cable every single time I start up my computer.
Alienware support has no answers for me, does anyone here know what to do? I have already:
1) updated the Radeon drivers
2) uninstalled the internal-vga drivers
3) reseated the video card
4) set BIOS to load PCI-Express/PCI
5) disabled the internal card in BIOS
6) looked for BIOS updates (there aren't any)
None of those work, many thanks to anyone with a solution!
Thank you,
Ian
My system in a nutshell:
3.2 GHz Pentium 4 "Bot" w/ ASUS PCI-Express motherboard
1.25 GB RAM
ATI RADEON 128MB X600 (brand new and correctly installed)
A week or so ago, my Radeon x600 card stopped working, so I called Alienware tech support and they sent me a new one. When I installed it, it worked fine. When I rebooted the computer, and every time I have shut down or hibernated since then, it loaded the opposite adapter from what it was running when it shut down.
Now the computer constantly switches every time I shut down or hibernate. If the Radeon was being used when I shut down, it loads the onboard card when I boot up the computer, and vice-versa. This leaves me crawling behind the computer to switch the monitor cable every single time I start up my computer.
Alienware support has no answers for me, does anyone here know what to do? I have already:
1) updated the Radeon drivers
2) uninstalled the internal-vga drivers
3) reseated the video card
4) set BIOS to load PCI-Express/PCI
5) disabled the internal card in BIOS
6) looked for BIOS updates (there aren't any)
None of those work, many thanks to anyone with a solution!
Thank you,
Ian
My system in a nutshell:
3.2 GHz Pentium 4 "Bot" w/ ASUS PCI-Express motherboard
1.25 GB RAM
ATI RADEON 128MB X600 (brand new and correctly installed)