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Dell OptiPlex XMT 5133 does not see PCI/ISA slots ...
Hi there, I have an old Dell OptiPlex XMT 5133 computer, and recently I had to reinstall the operating system - Windows NT 4.0, service pack 6. I am not very familiar with hardware, just what I've seen inside the few computers I owned, but this one is different from all others: it has two boards inside. One seems to be the mother board, with the processor and the RAM memory on it, and the video card built in - on the back of the case it has all the plugs for monitor, keyboard, mouse. Separate and on top of the mother board there is another little board, with only the ISA and PCI slots on it - on the back of the case there are separate spots for the plugs of the modem, sound card and network card, I mean in a separate area than the plugs for the mother board. This is all good and nice, the problem is that after re-installing the operating system, the cards that are plugged in the ISA or PCI slots are not visible to the computer anymore - like there is no link now between the little board and the mother board. I don't remember unplugging anything, if that is the case I will try and see if there are any loose ends, but I think it is not a hardware problem, because in a way the computer sees new hardware but it is not able to do anything about it. What I did is I bought another network card, the old one was a ISA one, the new one is a PCI one - after I switched them, at boot time, I get a "Plug and Play error, Press F1 to continue, F2 to go to settings ...". If I press F1 it continues booting and when it's up it still doesn't see the network card, and if I press F2 we go to BIOS settings, where I'm lost, because everything seems normal to me, I've read all the entries but none seemed to have anything to do with ISA or PCI. If anybody has any ideas please help! Thank you, Gerula. |
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