Help with 6600 GT installation

[mattybou]

Hello all, I'm posting on here because I'm in need of help with installation of my graphics card. I purchased a PCI-E Geforce 6600 GT this summer from Asus, and upon installation all I would get is a black screen on my monitor when hooking up the monitor cord. I could see the fan moving on the card as well so I believe it was on. But it still wouldn't work so I returned it to Newegg. The computer did not recognize the card as being installed.

Now, I'm going to Best Buy to get another 6600 GT. I noticed on the last one that there was a slot type thing on the top of the card when it was mounted in the computer, and I was wondering if this was for anothe power cord or something? Becuase I didn't hook anything up to the card this summer when I had it, I just installed it in the PCI-E slot.

Now, do I need to buy a special cord? Or what am I doing wrong? Please HELP!!! I really want to play my computer games!!!!

 

[mpasternak]

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ya. virtually all video cards these days requires an additional power source.

most AGP cards will need either 1 or 2 of the molex power cables from your powersupply. and most PCI-E cards will require at least 1 PEG power source. most Powersupplies these days have 1 PEG power source, but a lot of video cards will come with a Y adapter that will allow you to plug in two Molex Cables instead

 

[Crashman]

No, the slot thing is for operating the card with another card in SLI mode. 6600GT doesn't need added power.

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