6600 GT problem

[jkthomas79]

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?

 

[jkthomas79]

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.

 

[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.

 

[jkthomas79]

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.

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.

 

[rogue1979]

A 9600 Pro uses relatively little power, maybe the 6600GT is overtaxing the power supply?

 

[jkthomas79]

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).

 

[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.

 

[jkthomas79]

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.

So did a new psu work? Or did you switch video cards