Fixed it in the dumbest possible way. Read somewhere to try turning off UEFI settings and see if legacy boot would make it work. So I turned off all UEFI settings and enabled all the legacy options. Shut it down and put the card back in. Hit power and nothing. No signs of life. get filled with panic and realize that I’ve grown impatience messing with this all day. I didn’t unplug it didn’t wait very long and maybe it wasn’t shut all the way down when I though it was. Figure I just roached something important on the board. Pulled the battery pulled the jumper that I think clears the CMOS. I’m not savy so im not certain that that is what you are supposed to do. Watched some youtube and came back put the battery and jumper back it. Computer booted to scary screen with red text about no bootable drives found. There was an option for settings which took me to the BIOS menu, factory reset, turned UEFI settings back on and then it booted straight into Mint after restart. Got curious and threw the card back in and lickety split it works. Kinda hate not knowing why.

Now I have another thing to figure on. Now it skips the Dell logo and boots straight into Mint. If I hold F2 to get into BIOS it doesn’t boot nor if I hold F12 to select my drive. That’s a problem for later.

The closest thing I am seeing is settings > Video > Primary display. My choices are “Auto” and “Intel HD Graphics” when I switch to “Intel HD Graphics” I get the same behavior. I believe the intel option is the integrated graphics option.

I’m thinking my next step would be to regress on the BIOS flash since the card is 10 years old. Anybody think that is a good or bad idea?

Card is fully seated.

All drives disconnected results are the same.

Since the screen is blank I can’t see mfg logo or menu if I am getting into BIOS.

Card works in old system.

When space X left California captain D bag said it was because California passed a law that schools didn’t have to report to kids parents when they were changing their pronouns and gender identities.

I read this as “disco golfing in the woods”. I was so excited to know that someone was doing that, then so disappointed realizing I miss read it after doing a search for it.

Water proof phones.