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lowjack989   11-10-2009 at 04:45:21 PM

My heatsink broke a clip and fell on my card. This shutdown the computer instantly. However the computer works fine its just that now when I put the card back in and reinstall it it doesn't even detect it the fan does run though. My question is. Is it the pci-x slot on the motherboard or the card itself that is causing it not to be detected?

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ridic23   11-10-2009 at 07:07:16 PM

I think the card broke.....u mentioned "reinstall"....how did u manage to do that when there was no display....can u be more specific

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lowjack989   11-10-2009 at 07:11:46 PM

I went to onboard graphics, I reinstalled by pulling it out of the pci-x slot, uninstalled the software and then reinsalled card and software it still does not recognize that a card is in the pci-x slot

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ridic23   11-10-2009 at 07:17:12 PM

can you see the booting screen and all when the display is connected to the card....

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lowjack989   11-10-2009 at 07:25:23 PM

no...if I hook my display to the card I get nothing but black screen but the fan on the card is running.. I hook up my onboard and no problems. I have set the bios to detect it but still nothing from the card.

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Cgintz   11-10-2009 at 11:34:32 PM

Probably broke your card since the monitor can't read it.

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Shadow703793   11-11-2009 at 12:50:58 AM

Did you switch to PCI in BIOS after switching to onboard? (Btw, PCI-X? Do you mean PCIe? List full specs). If it's the rig in your sig, you don't have PCIX. It's PCIe.

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