Installing vid card

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PinataUT

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My buddy popped in his new 8600 and powered up and no video output - it looked like the machine did boot. Removed vid card and on-board video was good to go when powered back up.

I'm going to have him reseat the board and try again since that's often the problem.

I'm going to go through the bios with him and see if there are any options in there regarding onboard video.

Am I missing anything obvious?

(dead vid card, anything else?)

Sorry - noobs helping noobs can be ugly to watch.
 
1. did you plug in the molex cable from the power supply to your video card? Most cases your video card will work without it and simply downclock, but sometimes it might not work at all.

2. do you have enough power coming from your power supply? you need to tell us what you have in your case.. cpu, mobo, psu, and anything that sucks power (water cooling, etc).

3. did you try that video card in another computer and see if it works? If it doesn't, then it may well be a dead card.

4. try checking your mobo's website for a bios update.

5. in your bios, try lowering your video memory to half your card's ram or lower.
 
Suhweet!

I'll be on him for some of that.

I'm 99.44% sure he didn't run any power to the card.

He doesn't have another box for testing so hopefully we can eliminate that by getting the card working!
 
Reseat the card FTW

There still may be a molex in play but he was able to boot ASAP and he's getting his drivers.
 
I was trying to help my friend out over the phone. He had 2 problems - a black screen and no video and 'hardware not found' when attempting to install drivers for the 8600 GT.

For some reason, it hadn't crossed my mind that he hadn't moved his monitor over to the videocard outputs. The 'blackout' was when he'd properly installed the card and the 'hardware not found' was when he was trying to install drivers while his comp was using onboard video (and the card wasn't seated properly).

My hint was that during the blackout the keyboard CAPSLOCK was responsive and shortly thereafter it was a proper boot into XP.

He had no reason to know - no appropriate connector with the card to hook up to his monitor so I had to send him out to get a DVI converter. None at RadioShack - I'm hoping when he finds a converter everything will work.

I'm a little mortified to have not figured it out faster. doh!
 
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