So I bought a GeForce 6600 GT made by PNY. At the time of the initial install of the video card, I was running a 350 watt power supply. When I put in the video card and powered up, I immediately smelt something burning so yanked the power to the computer. Video card fried itself, how it did that, I am not quite sure. Took the card back, got another card, same kind, same company. Toss it in my system, no frying this time, thats a good thing. However, no video at all. My computer does its little beepity beep beep thing it does in morse code to let me know therse no video being detected. So to ensure that the card isnt bad, I pull it back out, and toss it in my dads system. My system is technically superior to his, memory, prcessor and motherboard wise, the only difference is, hes running a 450 watt power supply. So in goes the card, sure enough, works like a charm. Obvious conclusion at this point would be the power supply right? So day three and we run on down to the store and pick me up a brand new 450 watt power supply, toss that baby in, toss in the card. Still no go, no video being detected. Stumped yet? Lord knows I am. The agp slot is 8x on my board. The card works fine in my dads system, but refuses to work fine in mine. The memory, cpu and motherboard, and now the power supply are all fairly new, having got most of them just this June. Going to buy a new motherboard tomorrow and see if that fixes it, but at this point, I don't see why my video card would not be working.
It probably is your motherboard. I had the same problem with my ATI ALW 9600 when I first put it in, the beeping, not the frying lol So you might want to check for compatibility when buying your new board
Yeah, well they dont even list the current board as not being compatiable with their video card, otherwise I would have been more selective in my buying choices. If the new board doesnt work, I think a sledge hammer will...lol.
I think the problem with mine was more of the chipset than the board. All I really know is that it cost me $400 and a week to get it fixed lol Well, not entirely... I embellished on the upgrades lol
I'm coming up on that 400 mark, up to about 300 bucks now and counting. We will see what that total is after I buy a new motherboard tomorrow.
I'm far from rich, just so happened I have a father that wanted my video card, and told him he could have it, if he bought me an upgrade, lol. Well anyways, I ended up buying a new motherboard and cpu. So now im running a 64 bit board with a 64 bit 3 gig cpu. Card works just fine now, so problem solved. So, either it wasnt compitable with the motheroard that I was using, or I some how damaged the agp slot, which wouldnt make sense since my other card worked fine in it. Oh well
