Asrock 880GMH doesnt power on video card

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Hey guys,

I have an ASrock 880GMH/USB3 mother board I purchased new about 6 months ago and I've upgraded my PSU from 275 watts to a full PSU at 500 watts. The PSU powers components fine up until I add a graphics card to its single PCI-e 16x slot. Regardless of the card, it won't power it. I put a measly nVidia G100 graphics card that doesn't take any external power cables (like a PCIe 6-pin - can't be anymore than 75W) to power it. None the less, even when I put in an nvidia 8800GTX with external power, it doesn't start up, the fans twitch for a millisecond and it dies. Not quite sure what to do...
 

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Lastly, I picked the best category of them all to place this post in. So if it doesn't belong here, can we move it to the appropriate place. Don't want to practice bad forums etiquette