I installed a new card:
GIGABYTE GV-NX86S256H 8600GTS (basically a nVidia 8600 GTS)
to replace my old card:
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE
While I was at it, I put on a new CPU COOLER “ARCTIC COOLING|ACF64LP”
to replace my old tiny and dirty one.
I also put in a PCI fan to blow circulate under the pasively cooled new card.
Now, I plug her up and get nothin’. Green LED in front is on is on, fans are on, thats all i can tell. There is nothing on the screen.
Any Ideas what to do? When I replaced the heat sink on the processor, as I removed the old one the processor came out, stuck to it. This kinda wierded me out, b/c when I put it back in (I’m pretty sure you can’t do so without having the pins aligned . . .?) there was a little lever that I pulled up first then pushed down after puting it in which I assume should have had kept it from coming out in the first place. Do you think maybe I screwed up the processor? or the mother board? If so, how can i be sure?
Perhaps I need a larger power supply?
here is the invoice from cyberpwer when i ordered it, so you can know what i’m working with:
CAS: TURBO X-DREAMER CASE 350 WATT W/ WINDOW & LCD Temperature Display
CPU: (Socket AM2) AMD Athlon(TM)64 X2 3800+ Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport TechnologyCD: (Special Price) 18X DVD+/-R/+/-RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)CD2: 16X DVD ROM FAN: AMD ATHLON64 CERTIFIED CPU FAN & HEATSINKFLOPPY: 1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE (BLACK COLOR)HDD: Single Hard Drive (160GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD) MOTHERBOARD: (Socket AM2)MSI K9N4 SLI-F nForce 500 SLI Chipset DDR2/800 SATA-II RAID MBoard w/ Dual 16x PCI-ExpressMEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)1GB (2x512MB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Value Select or Major Brand)
Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM) Home Premium
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1
Built-in USB 2.0
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE Turbo Cache supports up to 512MB PCI-Express (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)
and i installed anoter 2 gigs of ram awhile back, thats worked fine for a few months.
Thanks for any help,
