Noob card installation question

[hydroshock]

Okay so I bought this from new egg

HIS Hightech HX70Q128-3TOAN Radeon X700 128MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card - OEM

it's no longer listed, but i threw it in my computer, didn't see a power connector and turned it on, I was then alerted with a msg that I didn't have one connected.

Well after opening up my system again I found the connector, but I couldn't find the connector on my PSU cables, I did find one that would fit but it was connected to my floppy drive so I figured i'd ask here before trying to boot it up with that connected.

 

[enforcerfx]

Um, Yea uh, Why would you take a Floppy cable and put it into a AGP connector? Consider looking for a 4 pin cable. Pretty thin, smaller than a regular 4 pin molex connector. I think thats what its called...

 

[Guest]

Are AGP connectors different from Molex and PCI-E connectors?

I bet if he needed a AGP connector, he could get a gender change off Newegg for a few $

 

[hydroshock]

the problem is there isn't any sort of molex connector on the card, only the one that's about the size of the floppy drive connector

http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=352

also that site also shows that this card doesn't use an additional power source.

 

[Omnituton]

Since the X700 is natively a PCI-E core using the Rialto bridge to run in AGP it does require an external power source. At the tail end of the card near the fan is a four pronged plug to plug in a floppy connector.

...or in other words if the shoe fits...

Don't forget to disable your floppy drive though or you will have boot up problems..

all the best.

 

[hydroshock]

alright awsome thanks, I didn't wanna be connecting a cable with the wrong voltage haha. I was reading elsewhere that there was an adapter meant to come with it that i didn't get (it was an open box item)

Once again thanks

 

[Omnituton]

Welcome...enjoy the new card