Need help badly!

[waterpolojustino]

Okay here's the scoop:

I'm building a system:

Dual 6000 AMD X2 processor that came bundled with an ECS motherboard and 2gigs of ram.

I put it all together and ran it fine for a while with the onboard video card. Today I finally acquired a newer video card because I want to play games. I bought a brand new EVGA 8600 GTS card. I put the card on the board correctly and tried to start up. When I tried to do this, however, the monitor received "no signal" and gave me no sign of my comp starting up at all. The computer sounded normal and before plugging it in i tested to see if all the fans worked and they did (even the fan on the card). Anyways, I called evga and the guy said that the problem was likely caused by a conflict in the driver (I didn't uninstall the old onboard ones) and told me to take the card out, start in safe mode, uninstall, reboot, and put the card in.

So I took the video card out and plugged the monitor into the old onboard port and still I got no signal. At this point I'm really frustrated. I managed to screw up pretty good unintentionally. So I called ECS (the mobo maker) and they told me it could be a variety of things including memory, power, and processor. He told me to try resetting the CMOS. Now I'm not sure if I did this right (power down, change cmos plug thing, wait 20 seconds, change back, power on), but it didn't solve the problem and I still get no signal when I try to boot up. Does anyone know what the problem is and better yet how to fix it so I can use my computer?

The only problem I can think of is that the power is only a 350 watt supply, but it is brand new and my dad said that shouldn't matter. All the fans and stuff work when powered on.

Thanks a lot for your help!

[Chazell29]

I don't know what the problem is, but it won't be the power supply, because after you took the card out, it no longer needs to power that, so it wouldn't be a problem of not enough power. Make sure that you didn't knock a power cable, or anything else loose.

[waterpolojustino]

Everything seems to be plugged in properly...

[waterpolojustino]

could someone move this to the build your own pc forum

[Chazell29]

Originally Posted by waterpolojustino could someone move this to the build your own pc forum

A mod will do it as soon as they see it. Use the edit button next time too.

Chaz =)

[LeftyAce]

That card requires a minimum 400 watt powersupply, and the video card is on a sepparate rail than the fans, so fans turning on doesn't tell you much.

Take a look at our recommended powersupply list here: http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=131195

I'd get something closer to 450 or 500 watts, so as to have some headroom to add harddrives or an upgraded vid card down the road. 400W is the bare minimum.

*EDIT* Make sure to get an ATX 2.0 or better compliant PSU to support that PCI-Express video card.