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New Video Card is Lazy Bum (Solved but unhappy)
Cognisseur
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So I got a shiny new video card -- GeForce GTX 275.
I open up my computer, take out my old card, and insert this one. I try to turn my computer on but it's not displaying anything.
Here's the current situation from everyone's standpoint:
Monitor:
While changing video cards, the monitor had that bouncing message going around about not having anything plugged in. When I plug it into the new video card set up in the computer, the message goes away. So the monitor knows it's connected to a bad-ass video card.
Video card:
It took me a while to realize I didn't have a 2nd source of power running to the video card (this one requires 2). The result was a loudly beeping PC and a video card whose fan did not turn on. However, I fixed this. Now, the video card fan turns on when the PC turns on. So the video card knows it's connected to a motherboard and that it has power coming to it.
Motherboard:
As I said, the motherboard used to beep until I gave the video card more juice. Now it doesn't beep. So it knows it has a video card attached to it.
So... everyone knows everything is fine, but I'm getting no display. The monitor stays on power-saver mode throughout the entire starting up process and feels absolutely no urge to display anything.
What gives? How do I fix it? Thank you.
-Edit- Fuck.
So I took out the new video card, put in the old video card, and got the computer to run. I opened device manager and uninstalled the display adapter for my old video card. I downloaded Driver Cleaner Pro and had it uninstall everything under the Nvidia setting. I restarted. I went to Nvidia's website and downloaded the new driver for the Geforce 275. I switched back to my new card-- and nothing.
No beeps. Nothing. Just a turned off monitor.
What do I do?
I open up my computer, take out my old card, and insert this one. I try to turn my computer on but it's not displaying anything.
Here's the current situation from everyone's standpoint:
Monitor:
While changing video cards, the monitor had that bouncing message going around about not having anything plugged in. When I plug it into the new video card set up in the computer, the message goes away. So the monitor knows it's connected to a bad-ass video card.
Video card:
It took me a while to realize I didn't have a 2nd source of power running to the video card (this one requires 2). The result was a loudly beeping PC and a video card whose fan did not turn on. However, I fixed this. Now, the video card fan turns on when the PC turns on. So the video card knows it's connected to a motherboard and that it has power coming to it.
Motherboard:
As I said, the motherboard used to beep until I gave the video card more juice. Now it doesn't beep. So it knows it has a video card attached to it.
So... everyone knows everything is fine, but I'm getting no display. The monitor stays on power-saver mode throughout the entire starting up process and feels absolutely no urge to display anything.
What gives? How do I fix it? Thank you.
-Edit- Fuck.
So I took out the new video card, put in the old video card, and got the computer to run. I opened device manager and uninstalled the display adapter for my old video card. I downloaded Driver Cleaner Pro and had it uninstall everything under the Nvidia setting. I restarted. I went to Nvidia's website and downloaded the new driver for the Geforce 275. I switched back to my new card-- and nothing.
No beeps. Nothing. Just a turned off monitor.
What do I do?
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Edit: A quick search shows the minimum is a 550 watt power supply.
It should, but I'm slightly confused...
It requires two 6-pin PCI connectors. In case you don't have that, the card comes with some 4-pin old school connector adapters in which 2 of the old school 4-pin connectors become one 6-pin connector. Except, they're not really 6 pin. The top middle pin is just a hollow hole. But given that this is what Nvidia sent me with their card, I have to assume that it's right.
So I currently have one 6-pin PCI connector plugged in directly and the 2nd plugged in via the adapter with two 4-pin connectors. I'm concerned that the 6-pin PCI connector that I'm using is somehow wrong... because it has 6 pins. Bizarre, but it's the only thing I can come up with. Should I try to find another 6-pin-but-not-really connectors?
Damnit. I have a 500 Watt power supply. Damn everyone. Except you. Thanks for the advice.
Well it powers a fan, that's something anyway.