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Computer won't boot with graphics card installed
Klorgnum
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EDIT: Earlier problem solved. Now, the computer won't boot if I have the graphics card installed. Everything is fine if I use onboard video, but using the graphics card results in a blank screen and no hard drive activity past the initial bios splash screen. Anyone have any ideas? I can't even get into bios setup.
I'm sure I installed the card correctly, and made sure it was seated right.
Computer info:
Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H motherboard
Powercolour Radeon 4650 512MB DDR2
2Gigs DDR2 ram
Athlon II x2 3.0GHz
I've just built my first computer, but I'm having trouble installing Windows 7 (The motherboard only beeps once when I start it up, and according to the manual, that means everything's fine, so I don't think it's a hardware problem).
Every time I try to boot from the DVD, I get an error. Either I'm stuck with a black screen and a useless cursor, or a message saying "File is possibly corrupt. File header checksum does not match computed checksum." or I just get a vertical column of the letter "D". It's a legitimate copy of Windows 7 OEM as far as I know (bought it myself). Never been used. The only thing I can think of is that I haven't formatted the only hard drive in the computer, I've just deleted the partitions on it so that it's all unpartitioned space.
I'm going to try to format it properly now, but I don't have high hopes. Has anyone encountered anything like this before?
I'm sure I installed the card correctly, and made sure it was seated right.
Computer info:
Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H motherboard
Powercolour Radeon 4650 512MB DDR2
2Gigs DDR2 ram
Athlon II x2 3.0GHz
I've just built my first computer, but I'm having trouble installing Windows 7 (The motherboard only beeps once when I start it up, and according to the manual, that means everything's fine, so I don't think it's a hardware problem).
Every time I try to boot from the DVD, I get an error. Either I'm stuck with a black screen and a useless cursor, or a message saying "File is possibly corrupt. File header checksum does not match computed checksum." or I just get a vertical column of the letter "D". It's a legitimate copy of Windows 7 OEM as far as I know (bought it myself). Never been used. The only thing I can think of is that I haven't formatted the only hard drive in the computer, I've just deleted the partitions on it so that it's all unpartitioned space.
I'm going to try to format it properly now, but I don't have high hopes. Has anyone encountered anything like this before?
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first suggestion, make sure your IDE/SATA cable for your CD/DVD drive are inserted fully.
second suggestion, check with a second optical drive if you have one handy.
Hopefully this doesn't mean I've got a bad graphics card...
EDIT: Aaaand now the install seems to be frozen. It's just displaying some fancy wallpaper.
EDIT2: Ejecting and reinserting the disk fixed it.
EDIT: Just upped the power supply to a 700W Powercooler