[ltp] PCI card stopping POST in Dock II

[Connor Behan]

After breaking a DVI pin in my video card that was working nicely with 
the dock I bought a similar PCI card on ebay. However if I insert this 
card in the PCI slot, my thinkpad fails to boot. I can't even get to the 
BIOS or see the spalsh screen. When my old card is inserted, booting up 
is fine. When no card is inserted, booting up is fine.

Also weird is that this card causes no such problems in a desktop. In a 
regular computer, it works like a regular video card. Has anyone 
encountered this problem before? Does IBM have some list of "authorized 
video cards" like they do for WLAN cards?

Or could it be because the card is not plugged in all the way? 
Admittedly this card is a tighter fit than the last one. I think I 
plugged it in all the way but maybe every time I try this one pin is off 
by a tenth of a mm. Usually when a card isn't plugged all the way in, 
it's the same as starting up the computer with no card plugged in at 
all. But if all the pins contact the PCI slot except one could this 
interrupt POST?

The card is a Radeon X1550 with 128bit DDR2 with "512HM" for 
hyper-memory. I guess this implies it has 512MB of memory. I got it from 
here: 
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=130294312704 
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=130294312704>

If no one knows why it failed, does anyone want to buy it off me? I paid 
around $70USD for it. I'll let you have it for $35 but please use it 
with a desktop, not a Dock II!