I recently got a (somewhat) new video card for an older system, and can't get it to work. I have a newer system that the card *does* work in, and an older card that works in the older system. I'm looking for suggestions of what to try next.
The problem is that I get one long beep (or maybe it's long-short, I'll have to double-check tonight) during POST and no video signal. Other peripherals seem to whir and tick appropriately afterward.
The card is an EVGA Geforce 8600 GT, a PCI-E (v1 I assume??) card. My motherboard is an MSI K8N Neo4.
I have a 380W power supply and I am a little suspicious it may not be enough. I have a 2x2 and 10x2 connector from the supply plugged into the motherboard but four pins of the motherboard's 12x2 connector are not connected. The manual suggests the right positioning for this and sure enough the connector won't fit any other way. And again the computer's working fine with an older PCI-E video card. The video card does not have a power connector.
I'm sure that I'm plugging things in correctly because I've tried swapping cards between my two systems twice so far with the same results. Could an old BIOS be a problem? Could the EVGA card not be "v1.0a" PCI-E bus compliant? The newer system that it does work in also supports PCI-E v2.
Does anyone know what I might try next? Or could there be a genuine incompatibility? If so, what other card should I try?
The problem is that I get one long beep (or maybe it's long-short, I'll have to double-check tonight) during POST and no video signal. Other peripherals seem to whir and tick appropriately afterward.
The card is an EVGA Geforce 8600 GT, a PCI-E (v1 I assume??) card. My motherboard is an MSI K8N Neo4.
I have a 380W power supply and I am a little suspicious it may not be enough. I have a 2x2 and 10x2 connector from the supply plugged into the motherboard but four pins of the motherboard's 12x2 connector are not connected. The manual suggests the right positioning for this and sure enough the connector won't fit any other way. And again the computer's working fine with an older PCI-E video card. The video card does not have a power connector.
I'm sure that I'm plugging things in correctly because I've tried swapping cards between my two systems twice so far with the same results. Could an old BIOS be a problem? Could the EVGA card not be "v1.0a" PCI-E bus compliant? The newer system that it does work in also supports PCI-E v2.
Does anyone know what I might try next? Or could there be a genuine incompatibility? If so, what other card should I try?