A screwy kinda quandry

[sillywiz]

I've been running a 6800 GT in my 210P for the last couple of years. A few weeks back it went.... graphics corruption, and XFX won't fix it under warranty.. Luckly I managed to acquire another one at a good price, sealed and much less then sending the old one in for repair

When the new one arrived I took the opportunity of completing reinstalling all the hardware and cleaning out the system, especially removing dust etc. My new 6800GT didn't work and refuses to display anything at boot, which was kinda worrying for a new card... so I put it in my 210V.... it worked a treat..... I put the 6600GT that came from my 210V into the 210P and that works fine as well..... so I put them back....just the same... no graphics on the 210P.....

I'm pretty sure it isn't power. Firstly as the 6800GT doesn't scream or beep on start up, and secondly I booted with no DVD Drive and FDD connected, which should give me a few extra watts.

Apart from the 6600GT v's 6800GT the only difference I can see is that hte 6600GT has a VGA and DVI output and the 6800GT has dual DVI (both were DVI connected to a Viewsonic 19" TFT monitor).


Does anyone have any ideas what I am missing ?



Sillywiz

[rrussell]

Do you hear the HD booting up as if everything were normal?

Perhaps the vid card took the motherboard out with it. (scary thought)

[sillywiz]

Do you hear the HD booting up as if everything were normal?

Perhaps the vid card took the motherboard out with it. (scary thought)

HDD works fine.... infact it sounds just like normal, but without the sceen!

MB is fine, the 6600GT works fine in the 210P.boots runs etc....... it is just that the 6800GT doesn't.

Coming to the conclusion that I might have to reset the bios and see what happens...


Sillywiz

[rrussell]

Is there a "Init video first" option in there - usually PCI versus AGP - that might be set wrong?

I assume you've contacted the manufacturer of the card for clues, too?

Um. And tried both DVI outputs.

Are you connecting the cable BEFORE you power up, or after?

(I'm grasping at straws here.)

You might post this in the A/V section. It gets infinitely more traffic than the biostar forum does.

[hnyman]

My new 6800GT didn't work and refuses to display anything at boot, which was kinda worrying for a new card... so I put it in my 210V.... it worked a treat..... I put the 6600GT that came from my 210V into the 210P and that works fine as well..... so I put them back....just the same... no graphics on the 210P.....

I'm pretty sure it isn't power. Firstly as the 6800GT doesn't scream or beep on start up, and secondly I booted with no DVD Drive and FDD connected, which should give me a few extra watts.

Apart from the 6600GT v's 6800GT the only difference I can see is that hte 6600GT has a VGA and DVI output and the 6800GT has dual DVI (both were DVI connected to a Viewsonic 19" TFT monitor).


Does anyone have any ideas what I am missing ?

Roughly the same happened to me. For some reason my brand new ATI2600XTcard did not show anything in the new Shuttle SP35P if it was directly connected with DVI cable.

The card started to work, when I used the DVI/VGA adapter plug and connected then card to my monitor with the old VGA cable. After I had set the card to DVI mode from ATI control center, it now works also with ddirect DVI cable.