7800 GT "not getting enough power"

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Hey guys,

I'm a noob at this and haven't built a rig in awhile. I just got my parts today, put everything together and it seemed to work fine at first.

I put in the eVGA driver disk and while it was installing it said "our data shows that the video card is not getting enough power."

I have an Asus A8n5x mobo, an Antec smartpower 500w supply and the nividia 7800 GT.

Did I forget to plug something in? I have the 7800 GT sitting in the blue slot (pci-e x16 i believe). What'd I do wrong?
 
Did you plug in the 6 pin power cord into your card.
 
make sure you connected the PCI-graphics power plug into the video card....
SO:
-videocard is in slot
-plug from powersupple (the PCI-E graphics one) plugged into card
 
It's possible that you forgot to plug in the extra power connecter on the back of the 7800GT? Thats usually what people forget to do.
 
yea and as i read in a post a little while ago, if the card is seriosly underpowered, it makes a noise.
 
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