PLEASE HELP. please

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Since no one Gamefaqs wants to answer me for some reason, you guys are my last hope.

eh...small problem guys, I'm on my old Pentium 3 now because I was installing a new video card and it worked and everything, I slid the side of the case back, and put the tower back into upright position...and the monitor went blank........

I unplugged all the power cords and everything and plugged them back in and reboot it and it still wouldn't do anything. Please for the love of GOD, anyone help me...I will leave everyone alone, I swear, I just want to play World in Conflict...please anyone please
 
have you tried re-sitting your video card (and memory) back in place ? (just to test) ?
Do the video card first and turn pc on, if no display, do the ram.
Does your side casing have a fan vent ? cause mine does and it sometimes hit the CPU fan
 
patrickv said:
have you tried re-sitting your video card (and memory) back in place ? (just to test) ?
Do the video card first and turn pc on, if no display, do the ram.
Does your side casing have a fan vent ? cause mine does and it sometimes hit the CPU fan
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I dont; think it has anything to do with the CPU, it's been fine this whole time. Nothing is hitting it. I think it's the video card.

I reseated both the video card and memory, and still nothing. Whenever I boot it up, all the fans are running (CPU fan, power supply) except for the video card fan. It runs for the first second then stops........
 
hmmm.
Not sure if your card has damaged in such a short time !!
do you have on-board Display ? have you tried it ? am pretty sure it'll work.
So if you're so sure it's the card, then why not get another one , so you can trace where the problem lies ?
 
If you boot into safe mode it should automaticaly be using onboard display, mine does.

Give it a try and see if anything comes up on your monitor...boot into safemode with networking then you will be able to get on the internet and update drivers as well but I kinda doubt it is a driver issue. It sounds like a bad connection - short somewhere. Did you have everything unpluged when you installed new card? Did you drain the power by holding down the power button for 15 seconds once it was unpluged? Was you wearing a ground strap? If you said no to any of these questions you could have fried your card...it dont happen often but I have seen it happen more than once! I seen someone fry their Mother Board installing a new video card because he did not take the precaution steps mentioned above!
 
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It may just be a short circuit, if your mobo has a built in vga connector remove the video card and try it without the video card. Awhile back I had a switch that short circuited my computer. Funny how just plugging something into the USB port can prevent your computer from starting up, but it did.
 
Your video card may be damaged or the fan on it may be broken! Try that video card in another PC maybe? Have you installed the drivers for your new card. Try doing it in safe mode... maybe that'll fix it!

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