craziej78

I just recently bought a new Nvidia 8500 GT card w/ 512 vid ram for my desktop PC. I purchased it to replace an older Nvidia 7300 GS card that I thought had burned out after a little over a year of use.

When I went to install the new card I followed the manufacturers installation instructions exactly. I uninstalled the old video drivers, removed the old card from the PCI express slot and installed the new one in it's place. When I turned the PC back on everything looked good. The new card had power to it because its cooling fan was running. I then installed the new video drivers and rebooted again. But when I connected the monitor to the card the monitor went black. I checked the display adapter settings under device manager, but the new card wasn't listed. All it showed was the onboard Nvidia 6100 card. I disabled the onboard card to see if it would then default to the 8500, but that didn't work.

When I called the card's tech support all they said is that either the card was bad or the PCI slot was bad and basically he couldn't help me with that. He also said to make sure my power supply was providing enough power to the card.

My suspicion is that the PCI-e slot might be bad because the PC isn't seeing either card when they are plugged in and yet the cooling fan on each card is working. Any suggestions or insight into this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

My PC is an eMachines T6532. Here are the specs:

AMD Athlon™ 64 3500+ processor with AMD 64 Technology
(2.2GHz, 2000MHz system bus, 512KB L2 cache)
Operating System: Genuine Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
Chipset: NVIDIA® GeForce® 6100
Memory: 1024MB DDR (2 × 512MB), 400MHz (PC3200), dual-channel
Expandable to 4GB
Hard Drive: 200GB (7200rpm, 2MB cache)
Onboard Video: NVIDIA® GeForce® 6100 GPU
Up to 128MB of shared video memory
PCI Express (PCIe x16) slot available
Power supply: 300w max output

dai

for pcie you need to be up here
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...air%2b550w

craziej78

Are you saying it is a power supply issue? The 8500 GT card requires a 300w power supply which I have, but I wasn't sure if it was not able to pull enough power. Any suggestions on a way to find this out or is it another issue alltogether? Thanks!

dai

see if you can borrow a psu to try

craziej78

I can't borrow one, but maybe I'll buy a less expensive one from a PC store assuming they have a decent return policy.

dai

cheap ones are a waste of money
up to xp just about anything would do
since xp
quality

craziej78

bump!