Help with New Radeon 9600 Pro

[TWF318]

Hey guys, I'm having some trouble with my new video card. I bought an AGP Sapphire 9600 Pro (256). I bought it to replace an ATI 9600 Pro that crapped out. I uninstalled the old drivers, took the old card out, and put it the new one. It powers up but I get no signal whatsoever. It's just a blank screen and windows doesn't seem to boot. Any help would be appreciated.
My specs:
Windows XP SP2
Compaq 6027US
P4 2.0GHz
1.5 GB of RAM
PSU: 220w (Its very weak but I used to use older 9600Pro)

 

[Tmagic650]

How did the old 9600 crap out? Burned up or just stopped producing video? The motherboard may be damaged now

 

[TWF318]

Well it's not truly dead but it artifacts like crazy and I can't any games most of the time (Direct 3D not available) and when I can load up a game, it's unplayable. Tried different Catalyst Drivers but no luck. Could it be that the card is bad or is it probably a problem on my end?

I can put the old card in and it displays artifacted but the new one doesn't display at all. Monitor is in a standby-like situation.

 

[Tmagic650]

The 9600 is old video technology, but I'm using a Sapphire Radeon 9600 256MB DDR myself. I need a better card to play the new games though...

I'd say that both video cards are defective at this point

 

[Blind Dragon]

Have you tried updating the chipset drivers

CPU to AGP2.0/3.0 or whatever you have

and did you go all the way back to catalyst 7.7

 

[TWF318]

Thanks for help so far guys. My mobo is a crappy Compaq one and I can' seem to find new drivers for it. And yes, I even went all the way to CCC 6.11. The new card is DDR2; could that be a problem on my ancient pc?
Tmagic:Could it be defective even if the card itself powers on? If so, I'm going to RMA it back to Newegg while I still can.

 

[beef_jerky4104]

ATi Radeon 9 Series cards are very old, I'd guess they are both defetive.

 

[Tmagic650]

Yes Beef they are old... My 9600 works perfectly, and it was an "open box" item from Newegg about 1 year ago...

and TW318, I'd bet it's your motherboard/memory or processor combo that's dieing, not the video cards

 

[TWF318]

:blackeye: I can't replace this PC for a whole so I'm screwed. I'm going to RMA it on the chance that this one is defective. Since I can run the other 9600, I'm hoping this one was just bad. Thanks anyways guys. Hopefully the other one works.