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Originally Posted by troutman
I think my computer rejected my ATI 5700 3D video card. My tech guy thinks the computer wants to work with an NVIDEA card, so we are switching it out. This is like a human body rejecting an organ transplant. Does this make sense that some computers work better with certain video cards?
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No, this makes no sense at all. It sounds like your tech guy doesn't know what he is doing, talking about, or he is pulling one over you.
The only way this makes any sense is two things:
1. If you are trying to install two cards in a multi-GPU configuration as some multi-videocard motherboards will only accept Crossfire (ATI) or SLI (NVidia).
2. For a single card, anything at all should work in there unless your motherboard is really bad and the slot is
PCI-E 1.0. which it shouldn't be unless it's a very old system in which case any modern videocard from Nvidia or ATI can encounter problems.
If your tech guy is worth his salt, he should be able to identify your motherboard. Ask him what it is and if the PCI-E slot is a 1.0 design (and not 1.1 and up) and post it back to us (motherboard model information).