PCi-express Card problem
I have a Ecs geforce7050m-m with a nvidia 7050 and i added a Pci-e x16 Nvidia 7200gs with 256 mb. and when i installed it and configured all of the bios crap and when i went to boot it up i got the stupid "You need to restart your…
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I have a Ecs geforce7050m-m with a nvidia 7050 and i added a Pci-e x16 Nvidia 7200gs with 256 mb. and when i installed it and configured all of the bios crap and when i went to boot it up i got the stupid "You need to restart your computer" thing and when i removed the card i would boot up using just the onboard card i would get to a functional destop and would get a kernel panic after i clicked shut down.
can someone pleaase point me in the right direction for getting the dumb thing working--or tell me how to make it work
Thank You for any information
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@IanxxxIf so get hold of efistudio
Does it matter which version and can you help me be double sure hwo to use this i only found like one version of how to use it with a google search and it was really vague
Thanks again
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@bigjimI have a Ecs geforce7050m-m with a nvidia 7050 and i added a Pci-e x16 Nvidia 7200gs with 256 mb. and when i installed it and configured all of the bios crap and when i went to boot it up i got the stupid "You need to restart your computer" thing and when i removed the card i would boot up using just the onboard card i would get to a…
I presume your doing this with efi string? If so get hold of efistudio
or this might be of help, for 7050 256mb
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
head on over to PCwizcomputer.com and check out the software he has posted there… then use the content from this site to help understand what is being done... I wouldn't actually use it because it is for ethernet... but its still EFI strings just the same...