Uninstalling hardware problem
Hi
I recently bought a wireless PCI card, not realising that my PCI slots are hidden by the clunky fan on my graphics card.
So for now at least I was going to take the graphics card out, use the motherboard output for the monitor and test out the wireless PCI card.
I thought I could just take the graphics card out, put the PCI card in, load up XP and install the drivers. Taking the graphics card out pretty much killed my PC. When loading up it wouldn't even get to the log in screen without going to one of those blue screens with the error messages. I'd figured I must've knocked a cable when messing about with the cards so spent a while unplugging and plugging back in everything with no success. Tried it without the PCI card and same problem..
Put the graphics card back in and everything worked fine again. So I'm guessing I need to do some sort of uninstall of the card before I rip it out again? Any ideas?
I recently bought a wireless PCI card, not realising that my PCI slots are hidden by the clunky fan on my graphics card.
So for now at least I was going to take the graphics card out, use the motherboard output for the monitor and test out the wireless PCI card.
I thought I could just take the graphics card out, put the PCI card in, load up XP and install the drivers. Taking the graphics card out pretty much killed my PC. When loading up it wouldn't even get to the log in screen without going to one of those blue screens with the error messages. I'd figured I must've knocked a cable when messing about with the cards so spent a while unplugging and plugging back in everything with no success. Tried it without the PCI card and same problem..
Put the graphics card back in and everything worked fine again. So I'm guessing I need to do some sort of uninstall of the card before I rip it out again? Any ideas?
0
Comments
option 2) you could also try going into the control panel, finding your graphics card, removing it there, then shutting down, and taking it out.