Have recently completed a new build, which I thought was working fine and it does boot up fine except when I slide in the 6600 card. I have connected it up directly to the psu and on boot up the fan on the card spins but nothing happens and the monitor remains blank and the hard drive clicks a few times but thats it. I have tried fiddling with the bios for ram timings, agp settings etc. to disable the onboard graphics but to no avail. All the components are new and the pc works fine (I am using it now) without the 6600 in. I suspect it could be the PSU but any ideas or suggestions would be more than welcome. I am currently using an old AGP card (radeon 9000) and that is working with no problems, dunno if that helps at all with a diagnosis, I am hoping its the psu because thats cheaper than forking out for a new graphics card anyway, let us know ur thoughts, Cheers. Ebuyer Silver 400W ATX PSU P4/AMD Ready Foxconn 760GXK8MC-S SKT 754 AMD 3000+ 64bit CPU LG GDR-8164BL 16x52 DVD-ROM Western Digital WD2500JD 250GB AG Neovo F417 17" TFT 2x 1GB PC3200 400MHz 184Pin DDR RAM DIMM 2.5V 3.2Gb/Sec (novatech) sparkle Nvida 6600 AGP
Is that an eBuyer 'extra value' PSU? I am suprised the computer boots at all with that thing for a power supply. Be aware, all of eBuyer's extra value stuff are cheap knockoffs. I've got none of it to work. You would get a few beeps if the graphics card was dead or faulty. The fan spins as you say, so the Geforce is getting power. Can you test with a different PSU?
Cheers for the reply!! Yeah I have tried it a few times, ensuring it is inserted correctly, also without screwing it in because the screw can tend to tug the other end of the card out. Also there are no beeps indicating this problem, the only audible noise appears to be the hard drive doing something it wouldnt normally i.e. clicking about once a second for about 5 seconds then stopping then starting again??? Any thoughts ?
Yeah the psu was bought for me so didnt have a choice, must say not my first choice. Not sure if it has the load capability for the 6600 even though it is not a high end card, but as you say the fan does spin so that might not be the problem. I have just looked at the Foxconn (motherboard) website and it says that the AGP slot is 1.5v only, is that a possible problem. No at the mo I cannot test with another psu, am thinking of buying a new psu anyway, any recommendations. I am a bit of a newbie at this stuff so any help is appreciated, thanks.
The card is about 6 months old and was being used in my old hp machine but the psu in that is only 200 watts and I kept getting the error message in windows that the Nvida control centre has limited the cards performance due to low power, or something like that so i resorted to the factory installed radeon 9000. So it was working on there i.e. it would boot. However I did try the card in that machine a few days ago and I was getting the same problem of no boot up but fan on card spinning, which I had been wishfully putting down to the old 200w psu. You think perhaps that somehow my card has got damaged, it has been sat in a box for a few months but it's all in it's original packaging ?? I should also add that the system won't always power up first time with the 6600 card in, the power light flashes then nothing, I have to switch the psu off at the back, switch it back on and try again. This leads me to think that the cheap psu is to blame.
Pretty sure it's not static, firstly I have an antistatic wristband and took all the necessary precautions, secondly I am beginning to think it is not the card at all because of what I said in my last thread about booting up. I havent knowingly been throwing it around and it has been sitting on a shelf well out of the way so not been handled badly. I have decided anyway to buy a new psu as the ebuyer psu is to put it bluntly, crap. Any ideas on psu's ? Akasa were recomended to me but not really heard much about them. This should probably be a new thread in the psu section but sod it.
Thanks for the link, now ordered a hiper psu after seeing it on the link as a recommended psu. Will let u know when that arrives as to it's success. Thanks again, appreciate the effort P.S. Will be watching the rugby tomorrow
