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6600 GT problem

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jkthomas79

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I've had a new system for about a month, and have had no hardware problems whatsoever. I've got a Gigabyte motherboard, GA-K8NS Ultra-939 (nForce 3), Athlon 64 3000+, and used to have a Radeon 9600 pro. I have only one game, Call of Duty, and it has a problem with the 9600 Pro, so I decided to get a newer video card. I bought the Gigabyte 6600 GT AGP, received it today. I installed it but my system wouldn't boot up. I searched the forum but none of the problems others have had seem to be the same. I connected the extra power cable to the video card and I have a 400w power supply. When I came home after class, I just re-did everything and tried again, and it did boot up. I installed the drivers, and re-started, but my system didn't. Now it won't start again.

Any suggestions?
 
Oh, I guess I should mention that when I physically re-installed the card, I noticed that one of the round capacitors was pulled out a little bit. Not sure if that says anything about the card.
 
Did you uninstall the ATI drivers before installing the 6600? Try going into safe mode and remove all the drivers and then try to reinstall them.
 
Originally posted by: AristoV300
Did you uninstall the ATI drivers before installing the 6600? Try going into safe mode and remove all the drivers and then try to reinstall them.
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Yeah I uninstalled them before I took out the old card. I'm not sure it's a driver issue though, since it won't even post. I'm guessing I'll just have to send the card back and try another.
 
That could be. But isn't 400w more than enough. I have one pci slot filled with a wireless network card, one SATA hard drive, floppy drive, cdr, two case fans, cpu fan, and that's pretty much it (other than the video, cpu, and motherboard).
 
I know that my system with 6600GT wouldn't always post with a cheap 400W PSU that I have. in this case, it was oe of those cheap, super-light 400W psu's.
 
Originally posted by: kmmatney
I know that my system with 6600GT wouldn't always post with a cheap 400W PSU that I have. in this case, it was oe of those cheap, super-light 400W psu's.
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So did a new psu work? Or did you switch video cards
 
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