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Old 12-30-2005, 04:04 PM   #1
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Video card woes

This is my first computer built from scratch but I have done a variety of upgrades on other computers.

I got all the components new except for the video card which i took out of my old computer. The video card is a NVIDIA RIVA TNT2. I installed everything and everything worked, I completely finished all the program instilations but I restarted my computer after installing Norton the monitor didn't turn on. Fearing I had fried my video card i put the old card back into the old computer and it booted up fine.

I then decided to put the new hard drive into the old computer and finish some program downloads, but the boot up could not find the hard drive. So i put my XP CD in to reinstall windows and it still could not find the hard drive.

What went wrong when? everything worked so well but so breifly.

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ATX Intel Motherboard- ASRock 775V88+ Socket T (LGA 775) VIA PT880
1GB DDR
300GB HD- Maxtor
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2
DVD burner
DVD/CD player
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Old 12-30-2005, 09:40 PM   #2
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My guess is the card is 2X-4X and that Motherboard has a 4X-8X AGP slot.
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Old 12-31-2005, 05:15 PM   #3
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New developments

On further inspection I realized that the computer is nolonger making the initial beep. My motherboard warned not to install a 3.3v video card. The information I could find on the NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 video card did not state if it was 3.3v or not.

Did I fry my mother board? I put in a new MSI NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700LE video card but no response.

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