No signal?

PC eye said:
Are you running an eide or Serial ATA drive? On an ide drive there is a rectangular opening on the back of the drive with 6 small pins in the opening there. The small plastic cap has a metal contact on the inside that determines what the bios will see when it detects the drive and assigns an address to it. The operating system is installed to the master on the cable due to the bios looking there first to load it. Generally you have to use a pair of tweezers or a small pair of pliers to lightly grab ahold of it to pull out and move over to one of the other positions.

One thing that you haven't been able to try is going into the bios to check the agp/pci setting is correct. Clearing the cmos by removing the battery on the board for a few seconds and replacing it would set the board back to the factory defaults. That would also set the agp/pci to pci. You would then have to set the time and date followed by moving with the arrow key to the exit and save position to then press enter or press F10 for it to leave the bios and restart the system. But you would still need something onscreen after the cmos was cleared. If the card is good when tried in another case then try clearing the cmos to see if that gets something onscreen. Otherwise you are probably looking at a bad board rather then bad card. The other video card that is known good didn't work either.
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I have a SATA drive. I have tried removing the cmos battery and putting it back in after like 30 min, but still nothing. It's really weird because now I'm guessing it is a faulty motherboard or something...

Well, now that I thought about it, what if my motherboard doesn't support the video card? It says nforce 4, and doesn't that mean it only works with nvdia based graphics cards? I mean, I have an ati XT850 XT.
 
Were you able to try the card in your friend's case to see if the card was good? It's not the brand of chipset that determines whether a card will work if the board uses that type of card to begin with. Your board runs PCI-E 16x cards like the one you have. Even if you only check your email that card should be working without problems on that model board.

Does your neighbor run an NVidia chipset on the system there? If you put in there and it works ok your question is answered. The other card know to be good failed to work on your board. With the cmos cleared and defaults returned you should at least seen the request to set the time and date with just the basics. Try your card in the other case. When you see the screen come up normal you will know right there the board has to go back.
 
PC eye said:
Were you able to try the card in your friend's case to see if the card was good? It's not the brand of chipset that determines whether a card will work if the board uses that type of card to begin with. Your board runs PCI-E 16x cards like the one you have. Even if you only check your email that card should be working without problems on that model board.

Does your neighbor run an NVidia chipset on the system there? If you put in there and it works ok your question is answered. The other card know to be good failed to work on your board. With the cmos cleared and defaults returned you should at least seen the request to set the time and date with just the basics. Try your card in the other case. When you see the screen come up normal you will know right there the board has to go back.
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Hey, PC eye, I was able to try it, and to my amazement, it worked. My neighbor's pc was a dell xps 400 that he bought from dell, and I'm not too sure what the mobo is because when I tried to check at the dell website, I couldn't find it... So, my last three things that I can come up with is:
Incompatiable Video Card (Unlikely)
Faulty motherboard, (Could be, because when I tried to hook up my neighbor's video card, it didn't work)
Or, Incorrect wiring.
I really need to solve this soon, because the warranty that newegg has is 1 month and I have had it for 2 weeks...
 
Assume the worst since the board is the most likely candidate at this point. I would email or call Newegg direct on the problems you are seeing on the board and lack of any video to even update the bios. With the card seen working in another case that can be ruled out since the model board you have should run that card even if only with the basic Windows vga drivers. Swap it in now while the warranty is still in effect.
 
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