As much as the card was running good under safe mode and when it was disabled under windows hardware, and I was thinking it's a driver issue (if the card was bad, wouldn't you have problems in safe mode too?), I wound up opening the box and looking at /. removing the video card.
a) 2 capacitors were bulging at their tops and had a dried crudon them (looking like the card was bad)
and
b). that was enough to get the integrated video card to activate - I just plugged the monitor into the integrated video port, it detected it and I was all set. It seems like (part of) the video card was defective.
thanks for your help!
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by: CallandorPosted on 2006-05-09 at 07:24:50ID: 16639555
Instead of using Dell's drivers, go to www.nvidia.com and get the latest Forceware drivers for the 5200. Once you have working drivers for the card, you should be ok.