Start-up Trouble

[hondo23]

Having an issue starting up my computer. Left it unattended briefly, the cat knocked the tower over, and now it will not start up with the PCI-E connected to the video card. I was able to start up fine using onboard video. Do you think this is an issue with the video card, or the power supply?

Running: Asus M3N78-PRO, AMD ATHLON 64 X2 DUAL CORE 6000+, ULTRA LSP 550W power supply, Geforce 9800 GT 512MB

 

[Tedster]

reseat the cards and re-try. Also with cats you will need to clean the insides with canned air as hairballs are terrible on electronics.

 

[hondo23]

Have reseated everything, and reset CMOS to no avail. When connected to the power supply via a PCI-E connector, the video card van twitches... then nothing happens. CPU fan doesnt start, no beeps, nothing. When video card is unconnected, starts up fine. Is it possible for just the PCI-E connectors to fry? I would think with a bad video card the PC would still boot up.