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Offline Raptor

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Video Card Problem
« on: September 20, 2009, 05:24:14 PM »
I have not been able to really use the video card someone recently sent me. I put it in my PC and when I put in the installation CD it says it cannot find any ATI Hardware and cancels setup. Any ideas as to why it may be doing this?

(Sidenote) My PC has 2 PCI-E slots, a blue and a black one. I cannot fit this card in the black video card slot because it is so long it extends to where the Hard Drives are, so I put it in the blue slot. does this make a difference?
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2009, 06:33:25 PM »
maybe the wrong cd.  I got a 9800gt 3 or 4 weeks ago brand new but had the wrong cd.  did you try to download drives from website?  also is your ps supply enought to accomodate it. and does it require a separate power other than from the mother board.

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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2009, 06:57:12 PM »
I have 650 watte power supply. Yes it requires additional power than that from the motherboard, and yes I have it plugged into the powersupply to get that additional power.
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2009, 07:49:11 PM »
It would be handy to know the video card and motherboard models.
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2009, 09:01:57 PM »
ASUS P5N-E SLI NFORCE 650 IDE LGA775 INTEL Motherboard

ATI x1950 Pro 256MB PCI-E card
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2009, 09:08:05 PM »
According to the manual, only the blue PCI-E x16 slot may be used if you're only installing one card.
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2009, 10:06:59 PM »
Ok well my video card is placed in the Blue PCI-E slot
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2009, 10:07:52 PM »
Have you changed that strange jumper-like thing between the two slots? Is there something else in the other slot?
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2009, 10:23:05 PM »
I have tried it with another video card in, I just tried it with just one video card in. I have tried it with the ship in between set to single card and dual card.

Right now I am running with just the one card in, still says can't find appropriate ATI Hardware and closes the setup.
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2009, 10:25:22 PM »
Hmm...ya got me, so far. I'll ponder it unless someone else comes along and fixes it.
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2009, 10:41:15 PM »
I have that motherboard as a backup. When I first used it I had the same problem. You want to make sure the configuration card is inserted on the single side and that it is snug on the socket and once inserted properly that it is pushed down until the snap locks are in place.

Now for the bad news: that video card suggests 30 AMPs on the 12V rail and if you are using a 4-pin molex + 4-pin molex adaptor to PCI-e plug to get power to the card it isnt going to have enough juice (I dont believe).
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2009, 10:48:03 PM »
Quote from: Chalenge on September 20, 2009, 10:41:15 PM
Now for the bad news: that video card suggests 30 AMPs on the 12V rail and if you are using a 4-pin molex + 4-pin molex adaptor to PCI-e plug to get power to the card it isnt going to have enough juice (I dont believe).
This is not an issue, I am not using an adapter between the video card and the power supply.

I am currently using the video card as we speak, but the CD won't install the drivers so I can't play AH and simple things such as scrolling a web browser just doesn't run smoothly. So it is putting an image on my monitor, I would assume it should recognize the ATI Hardware yes? When I turn on the PC, it says I have new hardware I need to install.
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2009, 10:51:35 PM »
Its working but its a mystery to me why it cant install the drivers.
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #13 on: September 20, 2009, 10:55:42 PM »
I've never had a card that needed to be recognized before installing, but I've always had nVidia chips. You can install those without a card installed.

It's loading the standard VGA adapters at least. Right click My Computer, choose Manage, then open the Device Manager from the tree on the left. There should be one item with a yellow exclamation sign. It should either be the name of the card or "Video output device" (or something like that...heh). Can always try right-clicking it, choosing "Update Driver,' then pointing to the CD. If that works, I'd try setup again from the beginning.
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Re: Video Card Problem
« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2009, 11:06:34 PM »
now does it matter that video card uses DDR3 memory and your motherboard uses DDR2.

another thing i read on that video cards is it is crossfire and x8 speed if this is the case you need another x8 to make it the x16 speed just means that card is reliant on the second video card

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RADEON X1950PRO GPU
Designed to run perfectly with the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture. This new bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X delivering over 4 GB/sec. in both upstream and downstream data transfers
Integrated with 4-Channel 256-bit 256MB DDR3 memory (1380MHz Effective! )
Lossless Z Compression & Fast Z-Buffer Clear
Hierarchical Z-buffer with Early Z test
Support for Microsoft DirectX 10 & Shader Model 3.0

also make sure you have the latest DirectX because its saying you need DirectX 10 or higher to run it. i will keep reading some more but this is some of the things i have found
 
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