*HELP* GeForce3 TI200 won't let system boot *HELP*

[nitrogen69]

I'm putting together my first computer (laugh here), and i just navigated my way through the realization that i got sold dead ram (enter warning against buying from sofistic.com here). I quickly alleviated the problem by getting some crucial ram (love these guys). I booted up the system (well, the mobo, the processor, and hsf, and the ram) and the led's on the mobo indicated that it made it past the ram check, and halted at the video initialization, obviously because i had left the vid card out until this point. So i drop in my MSI Geforce3 ti200, and boot up again. This time, it hangs at the ram check (according to the led's on the mobo) and does nothing. no beeping, nothing. I was wondering if there have been any issues with geforce3's doing this before? If so, please help. If not, still, any help would still be greatly appreciated. I can be reached here. Thanks a ton. Oh, btw, important thing, the specs of the system...

CPU: AMD AthlonXP 1800+
mobo: MSI K7T266-PRO
ram: Crucial DDR PC2100 2x256mb
hsf: thermaltake volcano 6cu+
video: MSI G3 ti200-pro (geforce3 ti200 if you can't figure it out)
Power Supply: Enermax 330 watts

the rest i'll leave off, seeing as it doesn't matter (yet). Oh, btw, the mobo and chip i won at the XPP giveaways by AMD in boston - any known issues with those packages? *shrug* i'm a total newbie when it comes to building comps from scratch, so feel free to educate me (even if you gotta throw in a couple "you're an idiot" comments). Any help is greatly appreciated. thanks.

-nitrogen69

 

[gariig]

You may laugh at this..but prolly you don't have the vid card situated in the AGP slot. Try pushing down on your video card until you think you can't anymore then maybe a little bit more. Hopefully, you don't run into my problem and CAN'T get it in there! My motherboard isn't high enough in the case and about 1/10th of an inch of the back plate is making the card not sit tightly in the slot. Thinking of going to Wal-mart for some screws to keep it a little higher.

Gariig

 

[anime]

make sure your ram modules are seated correctly into the slot and also ur agp card.
My new msi 266a board is using POS ram slot- so I have to really make sure everything is seated properly.

 

[Dunbar]

Ya, make sure it's seated, it should click. I made this mistake my first time around and luckily my Soyo MB told me it was the AGP slot (it actually talks.) You wouldn't think you should have to push down so hard on a flexible motherboard but you do.

 

[LukFilm]

Yep, push it down. I had a similar problem until I firmly seated it and then everything was honkey dorey

 

[nitrogen69]

The card is definitely seated properly - it's locked in (little back tab clicks in) and all that jazz, and the ram chips are definitely in tight. I've installed new cards before, and never had this problem. I've heard that it may be my powersupply - don't know for sure tho :-/.

Thanks,
-Nitrogen69

 

[DN]

I don't think this would be detected as an "issue" until the OS boots up, but make sure you have "assign IRQ to VGA" set to TRUE in your BIOS settings.. The other thing to do is try your video card in another PC to make sure it works -- it eliminates it as being the problem.. Either that or borrow someone else's AGP card and try it in your PC just to see if it gets past the video card init.. If it does, replace it with yours and try again.. If you do all those tests, you should be able to figure out whether it's your AGP port or video card that is faulty or if it's not that at all..