New system problem

[Chris A]

Abit IS7
ATI Radeon 9500 pro
2 sticks of Kingston Hyper X 3500 at 512MB each.
Pent 4, 2.6C
120 gig western digital SE
Yamaha CD burner.

Ok I hooked it all up and hit the power button. Everything seems to be going fine until the monitor starts showing a image. I can read the text but it is pretty hard in some places. There are lots of little colored boxes all over the screen spaced about 1/8th inch apart.

I have tried this with two monitors one was kind of old the later was a newer Sylvania 19inch.

 

[shootinyou]

Did you forget to plug the power connector into your 9500?

Might try reseating the vid card also.

;edit; which power supply do you have? could be a power issue.

Take a lookhere mechbgon's
post especially.

hope this helps.

 

[Chris A]

Did the reseating Damn lever is soo close to everything... Changed power connectors... Same little colored boxes all over the screen. I can make out the words Dual channel mode enabled.. Hyperthreading enabled.. and a few other words no errors at all as far as I can tell...

 

[shootinyou]

Do you have a PCI vid card to try? Or have you tried one.

 

[Chris A]

Sorry that is the only card I have.. I might have to borrow one tomorrow. I cleared the bios last time...

 

[shootinyou]

Originally posted by: shootinyou

;edit; which power supply do you have? could be a power issue.

Some new power supplies are coming with special low voltage 4 pin connectors
for case fans only.

 

[Chris A]

Good Idea I had tried there different leads coming off the power supply this morning.

Power supply is a Enermax 330 watts.

I even tried the DVI output with the adapter with no luck.

I am thinking the Video card might be bad.

 

[shootinyou]

could very well be,
is fan on the 9500 spinning?

 

[Chris A]

Fan is spinning real good pulled it out and stuck in a PCI card...

PCI works fine... Loaded right into the bios on a PCI card..

I need to try a different AGP card...

Edit.
I read on ATI's Web site that there were some 9700's that were doing this same thing with certain power supplies.. I wonder if this could be the problem?
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4075.html

 

[Vonkhan]

my first guess wud be the power supply itself

else the power connector

or faulty fan

or maybe a bad card

i wouldnt say heat becuz the problem is there in 2D, and overheating wud cause it to fail or display little blank pixels randomly all over the screen

 

[shootinyou]

can you try your 9500 in another system?

 

[Chris A]

Good Idea I am calling right now... Bet it costs me a six pack though..

If it works on another system is there any power supply that might be better?

 

[Chris A]

Tried it on my brothers system with the same garbage. Time for a new card. Thanks for your help....

 

[mechBgon]

Could the card be only half-way into the AGP slot? They have two layers of connectors, unlike PCI, and can be darn stiff when they're brand-new. If you can see the card's contacts peeking over the edge of the slot, it's only halfway in.