When i install my new video card (from a weaksauce asus geforce 6200 agp to a bfg geforce 6600 oc gt agp) my computer has all of the fans running very fast and the hard drive light is orange but it is not doing anything ( because i could hear it doing nothing) and it just does not boot . It could be my power supply because the card requires 350 watts and mine supports 600 watts but the card also requires a 18a rating and i dont know if mine supports it. ( and yes i properly removed the old drivers and everything so its not that)
(when i go back to my geforce 6200 it works fine)
What is the problem?
System specs: 2.08 ghz amd athlon processor
1.5 gb of RAM
120 gb hard drive
windows xp home
i dont really know what motherboard it is but it is an asus motherboard with 3 pci slots and one agp 8x slot( yes it does have onboard graphics but as i said earlier i uninstalled them a long time ago and i have been using a geforce 6200|||The problem is most likely you're not giving your new video card enough power. 600 watts is pretty beefy, but if you don't have a dedicated rail for your video card, your card may not be getting enough power because it's having to "share" the power coming from your PSU with all the other components in your computer(e.g., hard drives, CD/DVD drives, etc.).
Alternatively, it could just be that for whatever reason, the new card is not compatible with your motherboard. Go to your motherboard's website, and see if you can find any documentation of what is compatible with it. If you have an ASUS, you should be able to ascertain what model it is by looking at the board, and finding the model number which is usually printed right on the top somewhere.
Good luck! :o)|||seems to me that you have enough power going to the card. don't worry about the 18a rating your power supply isn't the problem. i know that you uninstalled the on board video drivers but that doesn't mean that the integrated video is disabled. you need to disable it in the BIOS. you enter the BIOS by pressing DEL (usually) . then go through all the options and look for something that says primary display and change it to AGP. if this doesn't work then the card could be DOA. just return it and make them send you another one. and you should install the new video card drivers first before physically installing it chances are your motherboard isn't reading it.|||email i can help you jcottini90@yahoo.com
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