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Video Card Problems

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cyberdad

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I put together my first new system on May 1. ABIT KT7A, AMD TB 1.G AXIA, ASUS V7700 AGP. Couldn't get it to power up. Since this was more than this beginner could handle, I took it to the local shop. As it turned out the CPU was fried, the mother board was bad and the video card was bad. I got them all replaced (It took ASUS SIX WEEKS to send me a new card). When all the parts were back together, the technician said that the video card was bad. He put one of his cards in the PC and it worked. He put my card in his PC and it wouldn't work. I send it back to ASUS. In the mean time I buy a ATI Radeon 64MB DDR. I install it and its the same thing. No video. Could I have three bad video cards in a row? Is there something that this guy is missing? I need some help from you guys. Cyberdad
 
Something is either very wrong or you have the absolute worst luck in the world. My reasoning is that if you've gotten parts replaced and you still have the same problems that you should look elsewhere for the cause since the possibility of getting that many defective parts in a row is pretty rare. Check the monitor, RAM, power supply and any other components that may be causing your problems. Also, try the Radeon in someone elses system and see if it works. Are you getting all of your parts from the same shop? I find it pretty hard to believe you could get a defective cpu, mobo, and video card all at once. Maybe you should think about taking your business elsewhere.
 
The chances of you having all that "bad" hardware in a row are EXTREMELY remote.

Just to clarify, the current motherboard + CPU are working, just not with any of the graphics cards that you have tried except the one the technician used? If he was a good technician, he would have probably used a PCI graphics card, because this would be the most basic of setups. Perhaps your PSU is faulty, and cannt supply the voltage that your system needs to boot with an AGP card installed?
 
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