nVidia GeForce 4 MX4000

[gchilds11]

Hey guys! I recently acquired a Dell Optiplex 750 with an nVidia GeForce 4 MX4000 with 2 burst capacitors. I ordered 2 new capacitors and want to know how to install them, but until they come, I need to access the computer. The computer has 2 hard drives and nothing on them, so I can't uninstall the drivers, so either I wait until mid December, or I could just try and do it.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Nikolay Savov]

Hi i`m little lost here ...
1 You have bad capacitors and you want to replace them ?
- you need help to do it ?
2. You have 2 HDD that you can delete and you want to know how to instal OS maybe ?

BTW: using unstable motherboard ( bad capacitors) is not advised ...... you may crash you OS to say for 1 -2 days .....

 

[gchilds11]

Sorry for the confusion, I replaced the capacitors and I still get the same message. I am going to remove them and put them back in and see what happens. I have 2 hard drives with no files whatsoever on them. The video card has bad capacitors, not the motherboard. I get a message displaying the specs of the card on my monitor when I plug it in. Nothing else happens.

 

[Nikolay Savov]

If you remove them you GPU will not work
If you GPU have bad Capacitors replace them
If you still have problems replace the GPU ....

 

[gchilds11]

The card cooled down, and works fine now. But there is still a problem. I have no drivers, or internet now.

 

[hang-the-9]

The card cooled down, and works fine now. But there is still a problem. I have no drivers, or internet now.

www.dell.com <-- drivers are there

That MX4000 card is VERY old, it's well under what that computer should be matched with. You may get faster performance just out of the onboard video.

 

[gchilds11]

I don't think you get my question. I can use the card, but no mouse, or keyboard. Or thumb drives. However, I can use one keyboard, occasonally...

 

[hang-the-9]

I don't think you get my question. I can use the card, but no mouse, or keyboard. Or thumb drives. However, I can use one keyboard, occasonally...

You did not ask anything about the mouse/keyboard or anything else aside from the video card. Your title is "nVidia GeForce 4 MX4000" and you don't say a word about anything else in the post. So it's hard to get the question when you don't actually put in the information.

Reset the BIOS to defaults and see if the ports start working. The other question is, did the ports work when you first got the computer? It could be just a bad motherboard. If no keyboard works (PS2 or USB) then you're stuck as without a keyboard you can't even run a BIOS update. For drivers for the network card and everything else, you can get them from Dell's support site. If you have other issues, you need to put in some detail as to exactly what is happening and what you tried to do already.