Starting up with GF6200

[rudis]

Hello people.

I just bought a GF6200 gpu with 256mb gddr2 memory running on ancient agp 4X/8X slot. My motherboard is gigabyte Titan P4 556 or something. All this time I thought, that my 300W PSU was behind all the problems, but now (after buying a more stronger 550W PSU- 20A on 12v rail)) im back where I started.

1. After installing the GPU my pc wont boot. However it boots if I install back my old 5600FX.
2. Card gets warm, so at least I am sure it is powered.
3. I cant see any external power supply, which should be connected to make it running.
4. I'm connencting through the VGA monitor cable. The screen is black- no visible random stuff going on.
5. I also tried to connect the card on a video driver-clean (to avoid any conflicts) system setup, but same thing- the black screen of death.
6.I have heard, that there is some thing, that should be done in bios to make such card run, but I cant think of any... The card is pretty similar to my old 5600FX- so it should run driver-less and should be seen as "Unknown Video Controller" or something.

Im running Windows XP SP2 32bit, 640mb of ram and two HDD's.

P.S. I bought the card from some random guy. He swore that the card ran smoothly on his system, so I am starting to think, that he isn't completely honest with me.

[duplo83]

Have you tried installing the suspect card in a different system?

Also, when you say that it won't boot, do you mean that the computer itself will not turn on, or can you hear the fans going yet nothing is booting on the screen?

[rudis]

Well the fans are running (PSU,CPU and GPU), the green diode (which is suppose to mean, that the system is on) is glowing and the red LED is glowing also (it indicates the use of HDD's), but one thing is kinda strange- the red LED is glowing, but the HDD arent humming... And no, I havent tried the card on other systems, but im looking forward to do so.

[ibleet]

Sounds to me like you bought a faulty video card. You do know that some people lie, right?

An old Dell I just sold has a GF 6200 and I used to swap it out with a GF 5200 with no problem. It even found the drivers on its own. You tried using driver cleaner pro, right?

When you swap the cards, does windows report "new hardware found"?

3 - That card does not require an external power supply.
4 - Does your monitor report "no sync input"?
6 - Nothing is required to be changed in the bios to swap out those cards afaik.

[rudis]

That also seemed strange to me- if there is no signal coming in then my monitor should show the "no signal" sign but that is not happening. Its just black- not glowing black but black as it should be when the pc is not running. It is rather difficult for me to see any hardware because of my being in such- black state. And no I uninstalled the drivers mannually via monitor properties->settings->adapter and so on. Though I thought that such cleaning would be enough. I also uninstalled the built-in adapters drivers that way which forced me to reinstall windows because after that my previous instalation would start black screened.

And the thought that the bastard has been lying to me has been in my mind for past two weeks. I just asked you guys because well... I might be forced to take action that could be stepping out of boundries of the law. I just want to be double sure that it is his fault and that he swindled me on purpouse. He is not answering my e-mail and phone so ill just do some researching and have my revenge! Dont worry nothing serious- maybe some fast drying concrete by his front door or something like that.

[sbohdan]

make sure you try the card in a different AGP system and if nothing than he did lie to you. I didn't know there is an AGP version of the 6200