HELP! I am at my wit's end.

[Alsainder]

Okay, here is the deal. I have an ABIT KV8 Pro Motherboard, and I am trying to run a Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card. When I boot up, I get the Windows logo, then it goes to just a black screen, no display whatsoever. I hear the Windows startup sound, and when I power off, I hear the shut down sound. But no display. I know the card is good, I have tested it in other systems. And I have run other (low end) cards in my system with this motherboard. I have updated all the drivers, motherboard, bios, video card, processer, etc, etc. I do not know what to do. Anytime I try to run any high end card I have all sorts of problems. I do not want to have to replace the board, as I will have to go to ABIT directly to do so. I am hoping there is something stupid and simple I am missing or can easily fix myself. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Alexander
The Clueless

 

[mailpup]

You didn't mention it so I'll ask. Did you plug in the molex power supply to the card? If so, perhaps your power supply is inadequate.

 

[Alsainder]

Aye, the card is plugged in to the power supply, and I have a 350W supply, which should be more than adequate according to specs. Hmm, I wonder if it could be the power supply, considering I only have problems with higher end cards that need to hook up to it. :onders:: I may have to try and eliminate that, anyone have a spare power supply floating around? ::Grins::

 

[YellowC4S]

Have you set up Video/AGP settings correctly in the Bios/Cmos?

 

[Alsainder]

Aye, all the bios settings are correct, and I have ruled out the power supply being buggy. I have tried everything I can possibly imagine. I am thinking at this point I just have a bad board with a wacky AGP slot. ::sighs and goes off to try and get an RMA # from ABIT::

Oh, great icon, by the way, Yellow. Those boobs are quite mesmerising. ::grins::