[Novalug] Video card question

[Ed James]

Megan,

    What size PSU does the Dell have, and do you have any way (like
using  a "Kill-a-watt" meter) to measure how much power the DELL is
using without the vid card?  Next question, of course, is how much
power the vid card itself uses.

    Is this a card which gets power straight from the PCI slot, or
does it have its own 4-pin power socket?

Ed James

Quoting Megan Larko <larkoc at iges.org>:

> Happy Friday One & All!
>
> I have an older Dell Optiplex X GX260.   It is happily running kUbuntu
> Feisty Fawn as its only OS.
...
> I attached the new Sony monitor and a new, bought last night in the
> shrink wrap ATI Technologies Radeon VisionTek X1550 PCI slot with 256
> mb of RAM on the card.   This card has analog out, DVI out and HDTV out.
>
> Placing new Radeon in PCI slot 1 and boot with Sony DVI connection;
> nothing not even the BIOS DELL splash screen.
...

> megan