[evadwolrab]

Hi, newbie poster here, I've got a problem with my new graphics card.

I bought it from eBay. I used to have a Radeon HD 2400

My bits:

• ASRock 4core1333-FullHD - don't know if that's even the model name, the box has so much crazy fontage all over it it's hard to tell :-\
• INTEL CORE 2 DUO E6750
• 4 GB DDR 2 667
• 400 GB 16MB CACHE SERIAL ATA HARD DRIVE
• XFX nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512 PCI

I've tried it with and without connecting both of the power leads to the two remaining sockets in my comp. Ive also tried connecting to both of the DVI outs.

When I switch on, the fan on the card comes on but nothing's sent to the monitor. I've tried re-inserting my old card just to check I didn't break something and it works fine.

I've also tried going into Vista safe mode with my onboard card to try installing the drivers (I have the ATI drivers still installed) but it says it won't install as it can't find any nVidia hardware. Whether this is because it actually can't find it or just because it's using the onboard and doesn't register the card which is not currently being used I don't know.

Anyone ever experienced something similar? Or is my card just broken?

Thanks in advance

[dice14u]

Well if you have another computer try sticking it in there and seeing if it works. If it doesn't register in two computers and is properly seated id say do an add and remove hardware see if it finds it when searching plug and play. If it doesn't find it then there might actually be a jumper on the board itself.. which would be hell to know what it does without some sort of guide. If all of those are correct then the card probably is broken. Make sure also in device manager there arn't any unknown devices. Unknown devices means that you will need to update the drivers for the device and see if it installs correctly afterwords