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Video card fan spins, but no display?

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mixmandan

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I've been trying to install a 6800nu today. I was previously using an old voodoo3 PCI card. I disabled the drivers and set the bios to boot to AGP first. Installed the card and everything was fine. When I start the computer, it starts normal and even the video card fan spins, but the monitor stays blank? Any ideas?

Thanks
Dan
 
The powersupply should be more than enough to handle the card. It is an Antec Trublue 430 watt. I don't believe that is the problem.
 
Is your monitor plugged in? lol. My best guess it also the power supply...I'll see what else it could be, but that's my only guess for now...
 
Yes its plugged in good 🙂 I even tried unplugging power to everything except for video just to see if i get video, and it still didn't get video. I'm Lost :/
 
Hmm, on Gt and Ultra you have extra power needed by means of a female molex(s) on the Graphics cards (end nearest front of case normally near HDD'S (mines touch)

Im not sure if the 6800 does have 1 molex like the GT but please look and see, if so you must give it a 12v feed.
 
What motherboard do you have? Some wont accept low voltage video cards. Im assuming your mobo is older because of the voodoo card you had in there.

Does the mobo have onboard graphics? If so disable it.

Got another machine you can plug it into?
 
The mobo is not very very old, the voodoo was just a temporary card i had in there since i had to sell my other card. It is an Abit NF7.
 
I'd pop the voodoo back in to make sure that it still works.

Then review all the bios setting to make sure that you didn't miss one that pertains to having the agp card.

Also, do you have another system to check the new card in to make sure the card works?
 
Thanks for the help guys, I'm going to go the RMA route because it looks as if the GPU might be dead. Thanks again for all the suggestions.
 
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