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Postby Elfdroper Gravelender » Thu May 15, 2008 10:19 am

Ok so I just bought a new 8800GT card, got it in the mail today. I put the card in hooked it up like I should and such, but when I power up I get a black screen.

So I hooked up the old onboard card again to power it up and I don't get the Add new hardware messege.

I rechecked the card to make sure it's set right and it's getting power and it is, the fan is turning and everything. I tried disabeling the old onboard video card and I still get a black screen when I power it up connected to the 8800.

I can't figure out why my machine isn't finding the new card...Please I need help! Two days until Conan and I don't have a working Video card AHHHHHHHHHHHH. :toothy10:
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Postby Elfdroper Gravelender » Thu May 15, 2008 11:46 am

/bump

Here's my machine specs

AMD Athalon64X2 5600 + Socket AM2 duel-core processor

Hitachi 250GB 0A33423 Sata2 U300 7200RPM *MB RoHS Hard drive

Gigabyte GA-M62SME-S2 Socket AM@ NVIDIA GfForce 6100 DDR2-800 PCI.e board

4Gigs Corsair 6400 DDR-2

500 Watt power supply


I hope to god I didn't get a dead card. I dunno a way to test it to see if it's working or not if I can't find it on my Hardware list...
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Postby Supreem » Thu May 15, 2008 2:47 pm

The only real way to test it is to hook it up on a different computer (like a friends) and see if it works on their machine. It is possible that the card is no good.
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Postby Nilbert500 » Thu May 15, 2008 3:17 pm

you uninstalled all the old drivers for the old card?
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Postby barbos » Thu May 15, 2008 4:50 pm

Did you plug the extra power cable connection that connects from the powersupply straight to the video card? If it has more than one connector, are the both plugged in ?

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Postby Elfdroper Gravelender » Thu May 15, 2008 5:02 pm

Uninstalled old drivers, and from what I've read it only has the 6-prong connection. Still not reading new hardware when I boot from my onboard card. And still a black screen when I boot from the 8800.
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Postby barbos » Thu May 15, 2008 5:16 pm

Dunno... may be a bum card then...

Have you tried the other DVI port on the card?

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Postby Elfdroper Gravelender » Thu May 15, 2008 5:30 pm

Yup tried both.... I don't get why it's not recognizing it at all.
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Postby Elfdroper Gravelender » Fri May 16, 2008 7:40 am

Tried a couple things, still no luck. I updated what I did on the EF boards so if anyone has any other suggestions please let me know. :toothy10:
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