What is wrong with my graphics card?

[Jorici]

Alright, I'll keep this short and sweet. This isn't for my good PC, but for my horrible one. It has a PCI-E port, and I have an ATI radeon 4650 to put inside of it. But whenever I do, I plug the monitor into the card and it just says no signal. I can hear the graphics card working inside, and I did disable the current integrated graphics, the Nvidia 6100 while putting it in, but still, nothing happened.

Also, don't say how stuffty the 4650 is, I know that, knowing you guys, you like to pick apart everything and then ignore the actual topic.

Can someone help me?

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[HellHound]

Take out the card's connector to the pc/monitor or whatever and blow on it, it might have dust blocking some connectivity.
Or just try and buy a new one.

[Otis Da HousKat]

There are usually two output connectors on a card. You're probably plugging it into the wrong one.

[Jorici]

There are usually two output connectors on a card. You're probably plugging it into the wrong one.

I don't really see how I could do it wrong, it fits and everything.

[HellHound]

Take out the card's connector to the pc/monitor or whatever and blow on it, it might have dust blocking some connectivity.
Or just try and buy a new one.

I don't really see how I could do it wrong, it fits and everything.

[Jorici]

Take out the card's connector to the pc/monitor or whatever and blow on it, it might have dust blocking some connectivity.
Or just try and buy a new one.

It's pretty new, I got it for Christmas.

Anyways, I got it to work ONCE a few weeks back, but I restarted my PC and I get the same problem.

[HellHound]

It's pretty new, I got it for Christmas.

Anyways, I got it to work ONCE a few weeks back, but I restarted my PC and I get the same problem.

Have you tried blowing on the card and the connectors? Or maybe it's not compatable with your PC, I'm not a supernerd like a lot of people.

[Jorici]

Bump?

[Tokthree]

Computers are fickle creatures, anything that shouldn't go wrong, will go wrong.
Now try every single little thing you can think of, and don't forget to install drivers

[KoopaScooper]

Even if you forgot to install drivers, it should be sending a signal (unless ATI video cards are gigantic friends) because your OS should be recognizing it as a GDI Generic video adapter.

Something's wrong with the PCIe port, the card itself, or you didn't protect it (or the computer) from ESD.

[Tokthree]

Even if you forgot to install drivers, it should be sending a signal (unless ATI video cards are gigantic friends) because your OS should be recognizing it as a GDI Generic video adapter.

Something's wrong with the PCIe port, the card itself, or you didn't protect it (or the computer) from ESD.

You do know that without drivers a graphics card is generally unable to interface with your motherboard, right?

[Jorici]

The card works, I can hear it inside when the PC is on, Nothing is wrong with the PCI-E port because the card worked, once.

Also, I made sure to protect it from ESD.

Idk if it recognizes it in the hardware manager when I put it in, but I guess it's worth a shot.

[Tokthree]

The card works, I can hear it inside when the PC is on, Nothing is wrong with the PCI-E port because the card worked, once.

Having power going into your graphics card causing the fan to spin does NOT mean that it is interfacing with your motherboard like it should

[Jorici]

Well, it was, because one time the monitor allowed the card to work, as in, the monitor detected the card and didn't have the signal not found error, and I could get to my desktop with it in, monitor plugged into the card and whatnot.

Once.

[Tokthree]

Well, it was, because one time the monitor allowed the card to work, as in, the monitor detected the card and didn't have the signal not found error, and I could get to my desktop with it in, monitor plugged into the card and whatnot.

Once.

Lots of things work once and never work again, that doesn't mean that it's immune to one problem just because it worked once