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mclaren187   11-22-2007 at 07:10:32 AM

hello all

sigh I just received my evga 8800gt ko edition and when I boot my system nothing happens on the display of my monitor. The fan on the card is running (quite loud) the whole time but nothing comes up on the screen. When I put my 8800gts back in to check, my system boots up fine just like normal. I'm thinking its either a defective card, or possibly that my mobo is not compliant with the 8800gt . . I read somewhere that you have to have a "pci-e 2.0" slot or sometin like that for this card??? if anyone can help please let me know as I'm not that much of tech expert on mobo's.


my mobo is an ECS NFORCE4M-A

thanks again

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Kamrooz   11-22-2007 at 07:35:27 AM
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You don't need a pci-e 2.0 compliant board, but make sure you plug in the power connectors for the card. Does it even show the bios info launch?..or just a flat out black screen.

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jaydeejohn   11-22-2007 at 07:51:52 AM
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Id like to add that the gt pulls alot more juice, whats your psu? Also, have you tried deleting and reinstalling your drivers with the gt installed?

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harly2   11-22-2007 at 08:21:46 AM
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8800 gt pulls a small amount of juice at boot and idle, in game or app it can pull up to 105 watt, so your fine there most likely. Also these new cards work in any pci express x 16 so your fine there. What you need to do is put your old card back in and uninstall the driver or drivers for that card, make sure there gone. then shutdown install new card and you should boot fine, then install its driver.

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mclaren187   11-22-2007 at 09:15:08 AM
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i have a 500W apevia psu . . . and I did uninstall my drivers for my 8800gts before I put in the 8800gt . . and still no response on the monitor . . no bios comes up or anything . . . the only thing I can confirm is that there is a "tick" noise that I hear about every few seconds . . think its coming from the psu . .

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mclaren187   11-22-2007 at 09:19:19 AM
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but yea I made sure to uninstall the nvidia drivers and I had the power connectors connected to a rail from the psu . . i reserved the lone rail for the card only and it isn't connected to anything thing else in my system . .

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jaydeejohn   11-22-2007 at 09:24:55 AM
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Do you have any usbs hooked up? Ive seen this as an ongoing problem sometimes.

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mclaren187   11-22-2007 at 09:28:44 AM
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umm the only usb's i have hooked up is my mouse and my led mouse pad . . both are connected to my mobo on the rear panel . . do u think i should try to do the boot with those 2 things disconnected?


Message edited by mclaren187 on 11-22-2007 at 09:39:45 AM
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jaydeejohn   11-22-2007 at 09:51:15 AM
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Could be a bad card then, hate to say it. There was another post.. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] art-please didnt look like anyone found a solution...no as for the mouse, its usually another type componant


Message edited by jaydeejohn on 11-22-2007 at 09:53:40 AM
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mclaren187   11-22-2007 at 10:02:54 AM
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alrite thx alot for the info i appreciate it . . looks like im gonna have to RMA it pretty soon . . think im just gonna get an XFX this time . .

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