6800GS Defective?

[maxiderm]

hey guys i just put every component of my new system together and i wanted to see what you guys thought... im having a problem, when i power the system on all the fans spin, the disk drives run, but theres no video... my screen stays black and the power LED on the LCD screen stays orange, which i believe means its not recieving a signal. i bought all these parts from different people on this and other forums:

AMD Opteron 144
DFI Lanparty UT Ultra D
2Gb Gskill HS
160Gb ATA133 Hard Drive
NEC DVD-+RW
eVGA 6800GS
Soundblaster Audigy
MGE Vigor450 PSU
Thermaltake X-1

any suggestions? this is important to me, because i dont have much ways to test out which part is crapping out on me, but im pretty sure its the video card. i cant test it i dont have any other PCI-E cards and i dont know anyone that does have one...

 

[gregnash]

Go through your manual and the Dfistreet.com website and see if there is anything there. You might just have gotten a motherboard that had a video jumper improperly placed or something to that sort. Also if you know someone with a PCI-E system take the card to their place and make sure it works. Slowly weed things out as the problem. Are you getting any kind of system beeps on POST? Check them to see if they match for dead video.

 

[Dillusion]

Hey- its me. I also had a similar problem with that card on a DFi motherboard, I have no idea why. It worked fine on my AOpen mATX board for at least a week straight. I believe its a DFI BIOS issue or something...not sure.

PS- if you wanna send it back to me I can plug it in my computer and show you that it works perfectly, etc...so its not the card, unless you broke it.

 

[maxiderm]

haha no dont worry. at first it looked like the card was defective, but at this point i dont think it is now. i have a lot more ideas. will keep you posted lol.