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chris88

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i got my 9600xt a few min ago so poped it in my system, atlast it is complete. u unplug my current monitor and plug it tinto the xt, flip the power switch wait a second press the powerbutton, my heatsink fan starts, i here the hd start, teh little blue fan on the xt starts, teh fan that says abit starts. my monitor goes into its sleep mode. i press a button or 2 and nothing happens. *** is going on, could it possbily be that the video card has been in sub zero weather for part of the day and needs to warm up? i tried teh dvi thing with the adaptor and it still dosnt work.


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Hmm, mine does that too when I use the 9600XT. My monitor has the power sensing thing, and goes into a sleep state when I restart or reset the comp, but when the comp starts posting, it comes back on again.

Try unplugging the monitor and plugging it back in.
 
Did you check to see if the radeon required a external seperate plug from the psu? Should be in the corner. Not sure if XTs have them. If i sold more id know, if i saw more id know, but since i dont, then i dont. Its like a fortune cookie.
 
Only the 9700 and above use power connectors. The 9600XT doesn't need one to work.

Well, I've never had to unplug mine and plug it back in, the monitor would sleep, then computer starts posting, and the monitor would awaken.

If you wait a while and it still doesn't come out of sleep, then I don't know.
 
Thanks for that clarifications, i knew the 9500/9600/pro/nonpro's didnt have one, but since the XT is newer i thought it might.

Sometimes, some monitors take a while to "wake". Do you still hear a post beep?
 
i turned off teh powersaving thing so it wont sleep and still nothing :(

since this is my first build and im a pc n00b what exactly is posting, just starting up? what could be going on :(
 
A (P)ower (O)n (S)elf (T)est is...well exactly how it sounds, to let you know everything is ok youll hear a "beep" Then it gets into the boot process. Remember that beep? Do you hear it?
 
stick your other card back in and see if it works.
BTW most instruction manuals come with a little trouble shooting section, all anyones gonna say is exactly whats in there.
 
its a completely new system :eek: im thinking of poping this in my dell to see if it will work
 
Why didnt you mention that earlier? It could be a billion things. Bad ram, wrong mobo stand off causing a ground etc.
 
First thing i would do is take the motherboard out, only leave the cpu installed and ram, stick the vidoe card in, hook up power and see how it works. Just to make sure it isnt grounding out. You wanna put it on a non conductive surface, like a woodem desk, or the static bag pad it came with.
 
well i read from previous posts to take parts out and see if it will post. i pulled the ram and it gives the memory error beeping. nothing happens with no video card. im going to pull the mb in a few minutes.
 
would the computer just show a black screen if the ram were bad? i get beeping for a memory error. if this is it im going to rma my buffalo tech and grab eather mushkin black or some corsair xms, which is better?
 
If the RAM was bad, it should still display something, like a POST process, and then detects no RAM.
 
Does your motherboard have onboard video? I know you have it in your sig, but i am not familiar with it. If it had onboard video, and you just unplugged it and put in the XT...You'll need to do one thing before the XT will work:

Plug your monitor back into the onboard video. Start the computer and get into the bios. Select AGP as the primary video device. Power down the system, hook up the XT again and it SHOULD be fine....That is i am assuming you have onboard video, and you didn't disable it in the bios.

My other question would be: How big (watts) is your power supply? Newer graphic cards are power hogs.
 
no it dosnt have onboard video. i have the antec one that comes with the sonata i think its 380 watts. i have my hd, dvd burner, mb, floppy, 120mm fan, the lights. i dont think that its the psu so im rmaing the ram today.
 
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