ati 9500 pro .....help!

[nOm]

just bought new card as above ..... fitted it, powered up fan was spinning but nothing on monitor????

checked connections same??

put old gf2 back in ...no probs

new card...nothing

do u think cards screwed?

hope u guys can help.... so excited today like 37 yr old kid

might throw toys outta pram

 

[selfbuilt]

Can you give us some more system specs? Especially power supply, motherboard, type and amount of memory, etc. Also, can you explain a bit more what happens ... is the monitor black but the operating system loads, or does the system not POST at all?

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[GeneticWeapon]

Is the external power plugged in? How many watts is your power supply?.....sounds deffinately like a power issue.
Try a different power supply.

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[nOm]

amd 1800xp
300 watt psu
msi ms-6380le2 kt266a ddr mobo
640mb pc2100 ddr
os xp
17 hansol 710d dynaflat monitor
40 gig 7200rpm hd
cd rw
dvd
hercules muse sound card


sounds like it loads up os but screen is blank,its like it dosent pick up monitor.

off to bed now midnight uk time

thx for help guys

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by nOm on 05/28/03 06:58 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[selfbuilt]

It does sound like a power supply problem. If you don't want to invest in a new supply right away, try temporarily unplugging the power connectors from all "non-essential" systems (case fans - not CPU fan!, CD rom, DVD, etc), to see if that helps to boot. I'd also recommend trying to boot from only a single stick of memory in the first DIMM slot (memory problems can often be unearthed when newer high-end graphics cards are installed). Since you can't even get into the BIOS, there's not much else you can try at this point.

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[nOm]

just tried it in m8s comp,hes got the same card,and it does the same as on mine ,so it must be faulty card,hope they replace it with no probs.

thx 4 help guys

 

[Twitch]

Does the 9500 PRO have to be plugged into the power supply?

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[GeneticWeapon]

Yes Twitch.

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[Twitch]

Reason I ask is that with my 9800 PRO, the first time I tried to boot my new comp, nothing happened except some beeps. I checked and checked and everything was hooked up correctly. Then, in the absebce of any better ideas, I plugged the graphics card into a different power plug, and suddenly it worked. Turns out the Antec Truepower has these "fan only" plugs, and even the normal-looking plugs that split off the fan-only plugs wouldn't work on the Radeon. Don't know if that's normal or just my power supply...


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