Graphics card issues

[robbrad08]

I have quadro k600 graphics card that I plugged into the PCIE2 x 16 slot that has the fan spinning when i power the computer on but no display appears on the monitor using a DVI cable. Please advise

 

[Darkbreeze]

You sure you plugged the monitor cable into the graphics card, and not the outputs on the back of the motherboard?

What is you motherboard model number, and the rest of your system specs?

 

[robbrad08]

The dvi cable is plugged into the graphics card... not into the intergrated graphics VGA port. The computer is a dell optiplex 960 and the board is an lga 775 slot for a core 2 duo quad cpu

 

[cryoburner]

If you were using a different port on the back of your monitor before, does your monitor have an button or menu option to switch to the other input?

 

[robbrad08]

On the monitor I set it to DVI input as source and the monitor went into standby. When I completely unplugged the dvi from graphics card the monitor stated check signal so it was detecting something but nothing displayed

 

[Darkbreeze]

Did you buy this card used, or is this a brand new card?

Tried the card on a different system?

Tried a different card in this system?

Tried a different slot?

 

[robbrad08]

Bought it used off ebay

 

[Darkbreeze]

Have you tried it in another system to verify it even works? I am very doubtful. We see a lot of fleabay cards here that people have purchased that are either not what they were supposed to be, or are faulty. I suspect yours may be faulty. Not terribly surprising. I hope you didn't pay much for it or can invoke the ebay guarantee and return it if it turns out to be bad.

Might also want to make sure your motherboard has the most recent bios version installed.

 

[robbrad08]

I'm assuming at this point the card is faulty. When I mentioned to the seller the card was not working... they immediately refunded the money

 

[Darkbreeze]

Well, that's good at least. I'd always stick to new when it comes to graphics cards. Next to power supplies they are the most likely component to be ridden too hard so they are usually one of the first components in a build that dies.