New video card help

[mewjr1]

I just got an ati r9000. I've tried every pci slot and the PC doen't recognise it. When i tried to install the driver from the disk it says that the hardware isn't there. Any suggestions??

 

[spynoodle]

I just got an ati r9000. I've tried every pci slot and the PC doen't recognise it. When i tried to install the driver from the disk it says that the hardware isn't there. Any suggestions??

So you're talking about a Radeon 9000, right? Try making sure that it's bottomed out in the pci slot. When it slides all the way in, you can tell. I've had a similar problem with a Radeon 7000 before.

 

[mewjr1]

I've tried reseating it in three different ports. Could it be a bad card?

 

[spynoodle]

I've tried reseating it in three different ports. Could it be a bad card?

Well, when you try to boot with the card in does it display off of its VGA port?

 

[CrayonMuncher]

maybe a dumb question but are sure it is a pci card and not an agp, i believe the radeon 9000 was released both as agp and pci