video card problems.......

[WT SAVAGE]

i just bought a 256mb agp x700 radeon. i put it in installed the drivers, but when i shut off the computer and turn it back on its says. video card POWER CORD not pluged in, please refer to "getting started". well THERE is NO spot for a power cord on the video card. so i dont know wtf that means. there is an install manuel but it only says uninstall ur drivers b4 installing, and says put it in blah blah and thats it. any advice?

 

[Dirty Clint]

Is the card plugged all the way into the motherboard or are there any extra plugs that need to go into the vid card? Other than uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, I don't know what to say. That is odd.

 

[TONY206]

What motherboard and power supply do you have?

 

[DJ LOON]

just found this for your card...


Box Content: Radeon X700 PRO graphics card, Set-up CD, Composite and S-Video cables, HDTV out cable, DVI to VGA adapter, Manuals, Power cable connector, Software Suite

power cord should hook up to the power supply somehow....might check that..

 

[WT SAVAGE]

ok check this out, i opened up my computer and i noticed a lil white connector with 4 lil prongs (male connector) coming off my video card, and i looked at my dvd drive and it has 3 black and yellow cords with a 4 hole (female) that will fit right onto the video card and it is the exact length to connect to the video card, but i dont wanna hook this up and fuck up my computer... so i was thinkin maybe this is the power cord? or adapter?

im still having problems when i boot my computer, sometimes it wont detect my drivers, i uninstalled em 3 times and reinstalled em already.

 

[Rich]

Does your computer have a 400-watt power supply?? You need a newer power supply to power the latest generation of video cards.

 

[DJ LOON]

^ true could be it too...


reason i havent got a 256MBer....

 

[WT SAVAGE]

i dont think it does, can i buy one?

 

[karloz]

Are you talking about the plug in the picture off to the right (It says P5)???

If so, those cables come from your power supply, which is at the top of your tower and has a fan in the back. It has a main cord that hooks up to your motherboard, then cords for hard drives and cd-roms. If your video cord needs power then you'll probably need to use one of the cords from the power supply also.

If there are no extra cords, then you can pull out the power supply and put a new one in there. I've seen them in computer stores for as little as $14, but I also saw one in Best Buy for like $45.. They just overprice some of their shit.

 

[karloz]

Or wait, is like this? If so, just pull out the one from your cd rom, plug it into the female cord, than plug the male into the cd rom.

 

[WT SAVAGE]

can u get a pic of my video card? i tryed to take one but the light reflects to much of the card. ^ in this pic the plug im talkin about is the one not outlinded in blue, its coming off my dvd player, it extends perfect to my videocard and plugs in perfect, if i plug this in is it going to fry my pc?

 

[karloz]

Something like this one??? It should have came with that same cord.

This website had this one, and they explain how to install it.

http://www.mysuperpc.com/build/pc_install_video_card.shtml

 

[karloz]

You can put in the cord from your dvd player, but you won't be able to use your dvd drive anymore. You can probably find one of those cables at the store, and that would fix your problem.

 

[WT SAVAGE]

^ this cord isnt connected to anything, there is a plug in the dvd and this one is coming out not plugrd to anything here a pic of my card, and the 4 prong male side im talkin about.

 

[Rich]

Did your Card come with any cables that would connect to your circled piece??

 

[WT SAVAGE]

nope nothing, and on the website, it doesnt show anything but the svideo/comp. cable and 2 yellow wires (which dont even hook up to pcs)and a couple discs

 

[karloz]

I don't know what to tell you man.. Call NewEgg or PowerColor. The instructions didn't mention any steps that you might have missed, or couldn't figure out how to do? Was your previous card an AGP, or onboard, or PCI??? Is this error inside of Windows, or the black screens when the computer first turns on?

 

[TONY206]

Just plug it in to the power supply, use whatever free one you got. Should be fine.

 

[WT SAVAGE]

i dont have a power supply........ as for the "error" its as soon as u turn the computer on, it just flashes read and says plug in ur power cord (which there sint one, besides that lil plug coming off the card) but if i turn it of and turn it back on it works fine........ my last card was an 9600 xe AGP 128mb. my new card is a X700 Agp 256mb DDR2 with 128 MB interface

ima try and use that plug that isnt pluged injto anything and see what it does tomorrow....

 

[TONY206]

Unless you have some magical computer that doesn't use power you have a power supply. That plug (power cord) that isn't connected to anything is connected to your power supply on the other end.