Question PC not powering on after installing a sound card ?

[_TrickyLiquor_]

I just bought this Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS and every single time it's inserted, the PC refuses to boot, even after toying with the bios settings and disabling the onboard audio.

The PSU shouldn't be much of a bottleneck either, even though it is a 450W one, and plugging it in other PCI slots didn't yield any results. Although the card looks to be in good shape, some caps are slightly lifted, but none of them show any signs of bulging.
That said two of them do show what looks to be some minuscule corrosion, as shown here: https://imgbox.com/hXh0Rknu

Specs:
PSU: Gigabyte 450W
GPU: Nvidia Quadro FX 4500
RAM: 1GB single channel DDR2
MB: Intel D915PBL
CPU: Pentium 4 HT 650
HDD: 7.2k rpm HDD 500gb
Dvd-rw/cd-rw drive

 

[helpstar]

update the bios of your motherboard
reset bios after inserting the sound card and try booting afterwards
try the card in a different system
eventually replace the CMOS battery

 

[_TrickyLiquor_]

update the bios of your motherboard
reset bios after inserting the sound card and try booting afterwards
try the card in a different system
eventually replace the CMOS battery

Unfortunately I don't have a different system to test the card on. I'm on the latest Bios version available for my motherboard and my CMOS {battery} is brand new and perfectly working (and I've already tried resetting it. no luck there). I've also tried repositioning my jumper pack but that hasn't worked either. Should I try downgrading my Chipset driver and Bios? Would unplugging something like the Dvd drive to slightly free the psu help?

 

[helpstar]

I think the sound card could be faulty, cause all other things are working fine

 

[_TrickyLiquor_]

I think the sound card could be faulty, cause all other things are working fine

You're probably right. Weird thing is, every time I press the power button, the fp lights flicker and the fans start clicking; it's as if it's blocking the mb from getting any power.

 

[geofelt]

1gb of ram is likely insufficient.
Some adapters, like sound cards carve out some dedicated ram for their exclusive use.
That may leave you with insufficient ram to boot windows.
What is wrong with the included integrated audio?

 

[SkyNetRising]

That said two of them do show what looks to be some minuscule corrosion, as shown here: https://imgbox.com/hXh0Rknu

Probably broken.

 

[_TrickyLiquor_]

Would it be worth a shot to try and bend it?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Your motherboard has integrated audio.
Why do you need discrete sound card anyway?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Would it be worth a shot to try and bend it?

Hard to tell level of the damage.

If one of capacitors' leg is broken, then capacitor needs to be replaced.
Bending/unbending won't fix anything.

 

[_TrickyLiquor_]

1gb of ram is likely insufficient.
Some adapters, like sound cards carve out some dedicated ram for their exclusive use.
That may leave you with insufficient ram to boot windows.
What is wrong with the included integrated audio?

I've looked at the requirements for this card and similar ones and it doesn't seem do be too ram-hungry. There's nothing wrong with the integrated audio chipset, but this card supports EAX and I bought it for cheap so I wanted to give it a shot.

 

[_TrickyLiquor_]

Hard to tell level of the damage.

If one of capacitors' leg is broken, then capacitor needs to be replaced.
Bending/unbending won't fix anything.

Neither of them seem to be broken though.

 

[_TrickyLiquor_]

So, inserted another 512 mb of ram and that didn't do anything so we can rule that out of the way.