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9600GT problem

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Brock

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Specs in sig.

I just got it in today and installed it. But for some reason I can't get it to work.....

As in i put the card in, plug in the pci-e power turn power on, fan spins etc but nothing displays, and it doesnt show up in windows. the onboard gfx is still working however.
 
had a 7600GT prior to this, and when i had that in the onboard vid would auto-disable, so i dont think it's that.
 
its a 400watter

powering 1 optical drive, 3 hard drives in addition to everything else
 
Brock said:
had a 7600GT prior to this, and when i had that in the onboard vid would auto-disable, so i dont think it's that.
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If you are going to blow off good suggestions, why are you even asking for help? Do you KNOW that is not the problem? Very simple to find out.
 
shitty generic psu.

and i was going to try it kyle =\.
just wanted to see if there was any other suggestions before i had to start screwing around in bios.
 
Perhaps your PSU isn't up to the task? *shrug* Too bad you don't have another machine to try it in or a friend with a good rig that you could toss it in & try out.
 
I read that a 400W PSU is the absolute minimum for that card, so i would suspect thats where your problem lies.

heres the reqs for your card

System Requirements
- Minimum of a 400 Watt power supply. (Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 26 Amp Amps.)
- Minimum 450 Watt for SLI mode system. (Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 28 Amp Amps.)
- An available 6 pin PCI-E power connector (hard drive power dongle to PCI-E 6 pin adapter included with card)
 
That was what i was thinking too.

/ugh i need to stop spending money on this upgrade lol. any recommendations for a psu?

or should i take that discussion over to the psu forum lol
 
Before your purchase a PSU, see if you can test this video card in another system. Many times if a PSU is too week for a system you will still be able to boot into windows, however the system will simply shut down once it puts too much stress on the PSU
 
im kinda screwed in this respect tho because all of my mates have compys older than mine. my best luck would be trying it in my bros computer with a 430W thermaltake psu.
 
Good PSU's.... Corsair, Seasonic, PC P&C, Antec, Enermax..... whats your price range? There was a Corsair 550W for 60$ after rebate on amazon.
 
Reset your BIOS with a full CMOS reset. Remove your GPU and your RAM, then put them back in. Reset your BIOS again.

That's fixed a couple of GPU issues for me in the past.

Plug in a case speaker and try to listen for beeps. Troubleshoot as necessary.
 
Do you think that the 7600 would draw more power than the 9600? I dont know if the fab is smaller or the same on the 9600, but I would think that just like CPU chips, as the fab gets smaller, so is the power consumption.

So if his 7600 worked before, I would think that the 9600 would as well. But I have been know to be wrong, once or less.

Could the card be DOA ?
 
dunno, like i said card fan spins up and all that.

just cant get it to recognize at all.
 
my bros 450w thermaltake couldnt run it,

i checked the +12A tho and its only like 18A

and im sure my cheapy 400W psu is the same.

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Requirements:
- Minimum of a 400 Watt power supply. (Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 26 Amp Amps.)
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I'm assuming i'm having an Amp problem here. What would the rest of you say?
 
sometimes the thermaltake PSU's have more than 1 12V rail , see if it has like 12v1/12v2 etc... if it does it should be able to run it
 
Yup, it looks like your PSU isn't supplying enough power.. happend with my cousin's 6800 Ultra a few years back.
 
so are those the symptoms of a video card not getting enough power?

fan running but cant use it to see anything?
 
Brock said:
so are those the symptoms of a video card not getting enough power?

fan running but cant use it to see anything?
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Happened to me once long ago with a 350w PSU, fan ran but the card just wouldn't kick over.

There are really only two options here, PSU isn't up to the task or your vid card was DOA, both are very possible and realistic
 
not worried, then.

i'll just rma it to newegg if it isnt the psu.
and i'll bitch and moan to CS to get it 2 day shipped or faster lol.

i ordered a Corsair 550VX, and will test it once it gets here heh.
 
Did you uninstall the old drivers for the 7600?
Could be as simple as you need them to be uninstalled first as they probably don't support the 9600.
 
yes i did.

but i dont think drivers would be an issue when it isnt displaying when POST'ing anyway.
 
Brock said:
yes i did.

but i dont think drivers would be an issue when it isnt displaying when POST'ing anyway.
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True, if everything worked it should show the POST screens.
Looks likely the PSU is the culprit here.
 
skytripa said:
Good PSU's.... Corsair, Seasonic, PC P&C, Antec, Enermax..... whats your price range? There was a Corsair 550W for 60$ after rebate on amazon.
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On a personal note, I consider the ABS line of TAGAN PSU's to be a phenomenal product. The reliability of the 12v rails is outstanding.
 
I picked-up a Corsair HX620W a couple of months back to feed my growing power needs, but have been pleasantly surprised by how much cooler, quieter, and more efficiently it runs than my old 500W Ultra X3 PSU (back when Ultra used to put out the good stuff). My room used to heat-up like an oven, but even though I had been running SLI for a couple of weeks w/the new PSU, the heat my PC pumped into my room actually decreased, thanks entirely to the HX620W. Definitely have to say I'm really happy with it (and no, power wasn't the reason why I ditched one of my 8800GTS's).
 
Sigh, people are always jumping to PSU conclusions..."not enough power" is not a constructive response nor is it always the first conclusion you should wildly jump to. Here's news for you guys, I'm running an overclocked 8800GT on a 250watt PSU.

Do you have a second monitor on your onboard? Perhaps you aren't getting a post screen because the post screen is displaying on the onboard and not your monitor connected to your 8800GT? When I first switched from onboard to 8800GT, it took some effort to get the system to recognize the new card instead of defaulting to onboard. It would keep posting to the onboard instead of the 8800GT.

Who is the manufacturer of your onboard video? Is it also Nvidia? The problem may be caused by driver conflicts. Try disabling the onboard video in the bios before you boot up with the 8800GT. Unless the onboard video is also nvidia, the drivers may not allow the 8800GT to appear properly in Windows or even device manager. This is what I had in my experience. I disabled the onboard video by using driver cleaner in windows, then in the bios I set first boot device as PCI-E and set the frame buffer (amount of ram available to onboard) to 0MB or disabled. Reset configuration data to manual from auto, and then booted up and the 8800GT worked. I then installed the 8800GT drivers from CD (the nvidia ones downloaded wouldn't work for some reason) and rebooted. From that point on, I could use my 8800GT AND my onboard simultaneously.
 
Have you considered just disconnecting all other components for testing to see if you get into BIOS? (Especially that cache of hard drives.)

If the minimum is 400, you should see what happens with the minimum hardware connected to it. That won't require getting anything else to test with, but should leave you with plenty of juice for testing. At least you can decide how to move forward.
 
I did try that actually.

I think the horribly underpowered +12 is the culprit. Mind you the No-Name PSU probably doesnt help.
 
Turns out the card was DOA, Newegg overnite'd me a new one.
 
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