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Went out and bought a new vid card today for short money. It's a Radeon x1300 Pro, 256mb, AGP8x. A step up from my old Radeon 9800.
I rip out the old one figuring I wouldn;t have to uninstall everything, because it's the same type of card. When I upgraded from a 9700 to a 9800 I didn't have to uninstall anything because my catalyst drivers just picked it up.
Problem with this one is when I have it hooked up and everything, all I get is a BLANK MONITOR. I've checked everything; everything in the machine is getting power, all the components are live, all fans running all lights blinking, etc--there's just no picture at all, no matter how I connect it. So I know it's not the connection to the power supply or anything.
Should I uninstall all the drivers and try again? Should I go get an update for my motherboard's AGP slot (the manual says to do that but I see no place to get an AGP-slot specific update for my intel i850e motherboard...in fact I couldn't find anything at all for it, as far as downloadable updates goes)?
The weird thing is, the screen goes BLANK, and the led light blinks intermittently. If I unplug it from the video card though, it then behaves like a normal unplugged monitor, shows me the little generic "There is no signal" stuff...but it all cuts the second the thing touches the graphics card connector.
I dunno if this matters but it seems my A: drive's led light stays on indefinitely when I try to boot with the new card in...I can feel both hard drive and CD roms all spinning and such, though, so again I know it's not a power issue.
What the hell man? Any help is appreciated.
(EDIT: Yes, everything is connected correctly...the thing is sitting next to me wide open and when I put the old card back in it works fine so I know I'm not doing anything wrong.)
I rip out the old one figuring I wouldn;t have to uninstall everything, because it's the same type of card. When I upgraded from a 9700 to a 9800 I didn't have to uninstall anything because my catalyst drivers just picked it up.
Problem with this one is when I have it hooked up and everything, all I get is a BLANK MONITOR. I've checked everything; everything in the machine is getting power, all the components are live, all fans running all lights blinking, etc--there's just no picture at all, no matter how I connect it. So I know it's not the connection to the power supply or anything.
Should I uninstall all the drivers and try again? Should I go get an update for my motherboard's AGP slot (the manual says to do that but I see no place to get an AGP-slot specific update for my intel i850e motherboard...in fact I couldn't find anything at all for it, as far as downloadable updates goes)?
The weird thing is, the screen goes BLANK, and the led light blinks intermittently. If I unplug it from the video card though, it then behaves like a normal unplugged monitor, shows me the little generic "There is no signal" stuff...but it all cuts the second the thing touches the graphics card connector.
I dunno if this matters but it seems my A: drive's led light stays on indefinitely when I try to boot with the new card in...I can feel both hard drive and CD roms all spinning and such, though, so again I know it's not a power issue.
What the hell man? Any help is appreciated.
(EDIT: Yes, everything is connected correctly...the thing is sitting next to me wide open and when I put the old card back in it works fine so I know I'm not doing anything wrong.)