Zotac GeForce 210 doesn't work

[abhi007]

Hi,

i purchased Zotac NVIDIA GeForce 210 ZT-20301-10L 512MB DDR2, and it is not working on my system. i see distorted image on screen, text is unreadable. it is not a driver issue since i cant even see the bios screen correctly. it is detected correctly on windows 7. the fan is spinning and i also disabled my onboard graphics. it is a HP PC model SG3510IL, motherboard is ECS Iris 8, AMD Athlon 64, 2 GB RAM. I have 19'' LCD connected using VGA cable.

here is the homepage for my PC (h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3801536)

i searched and found this page, it shows many corrupted screen - (playtool.com/pages/artifacts/artifacts.html) my problem was similar to the 'Bus artifacts' he described.

any suggestion why it is not working, or should i get a refund. <_<

thanks

 

[Tmagic650]

Try the monitor on another computer before you return the video card

 

[SNGX1275]

Yep, sounds like a bad card, but definitely do what Tmagic650 says and try a different monitor - OR try a different computer with that monitor.