Motherboard Incompatibility?

[asianmaster]

Some friends and I just made up a computer for my younger brother; it has been working fine with the one exception of video card compatibility. The computer is running on a Seperon 2800+ with an ECS K7VTA3 motherboard (nothing fancy I admit by any means). Anyway, we originally purchased a Radeon 9600LE to go in it but it didn?t work. Now I?ve been trying to get it to run with a new 9550 and it doesn?t want to take that either, just the old Radeon 9000 that I got from a friend. When I turn on the computer with either the 9600 or 9550 they monitor continues to register ?no feed.? The computer seems to be booting up and proceeding as usual. I just don?t get a visual feed. It works just fine with the 9000; I just want to put a better card in it. Does anyone have an idea of what the problem might be? Someone suggested that the mobo might not be giving the card enough power but I tried unplugging everything and running it and it still doesn?t work. I doubt that it is an incompatibility issue as large as ?no radeons.? Anyway, any help would be appreciated. Thanks guys

 

[LTC8K6]

I don't think the 9600's and their cousins work very well in that mobo. I remember hearing about it. If you google it, you'll find discussions on it with opinions varying about how to get them to work.

 

[Unforgiven]

the issue is a signaling issue with the AGP port and that specific card. this thread will show you a tech support response from ECS regarding this.