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DELL desktop with magic card, goes bananas!

Hi dear experts,

I have these DELL computers where I work with Magic Card on them, which is a pci card
that will erase all changes and restore original windows system on every boot, it's like
Deep Freeze only hardware! The problem is that when unplugged this pci and returned it
the computer will startup with white or colored stripes a cross the monitor vertically!!!

I think it's some kind of safety mechanism or something!

I tried unplugging and replugging for many times but still the same.

Anybody came across this issue before !!!

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Anwar Saiah

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http://www.helpturk.org/magic-card.htm

What is lost exactly, It was unplugged after the pc was shut down, and when we saw the white stripes
we shut down again and then re-plugged the card, but still the same.

The card was first unplugged because the pc won't boot, but will hang on BIOS boot up progress bar!

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Anwar Saiah

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ThanX 4 the help people

I have tried to reset removing the board battery, no go.

Any way when I unplugged only one of the 2 ddr2 memory cards the pc beeped on.
So I plugged it in again and the DELL came back to normal, I tried this with all 4 DELLs that
had the problem and fixed them all.

Thank you again!

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