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Hi there everyone!! " AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL"

I just recently purchased a ATI RADEON 9250 128mb graphics card for my son, I tried to put the card into my son`s pc in the agp slot..but was very tight fit,i got it in but the pc wont boot up !! it shows his lcd monitor a black screen...
so i tried moving the card about to see if it was not in properly but again the same thing happened..I took the card out boot his pc up again and it was back to normal as he has 64mb onboard graphics..
I then disabled the onboard graphics and replaced the card once it had shut down but again there was just a black screen..so i took the card out again and tried my g/force mx 64 in his pc but again did not boot up!!
so then i tried putting his new card into my pc and it worked with no problem...


Has anyone got any ideas as my son cant play high profile games without it being slow??

Why wont his pc take a graphics card in the agp slot ??
will i have to buy him a pci graphics card?

I do not have all the spec of his pc just yet but if u need it to help me i will write it down and reply??


thanx for ur time!


agoldeneye

PS .. i have built pc s before but never come across this yet!!

post the specs of the computer. what is the motherboard? is it even AGP (as you considering buying a PCI-E card which is not compatible with AGP)?

there's that, and also is AGP enabled in the BIOS? That can also cause a black screen (had it happen to me before when I had an Xtasy 5964 GeForce 2 Ti on an iWill P3 slot mobo). If not, and the mobo is kinda old, you might not be able to use it on that board, because I think that card requires at least 4x AGP to operate. Let us know what you find

oh yeah, and.......

Welcome to the Forums!!!!!

From: http://www.ertyu.org/~steven_nikkel/agp ... ility.html

AGP connectors are physically keyed to specify the signalling voltages the device is capable of operating at. AGP specifies two keys, a 3.3V key and a 1.5V key. Unfortunately they added a third voltage, 0.8V. If a device operates at 0.8V it uses the 1.5V key and must be tolerant of 1.5V signalling, but not necessarily capable of operating at 1.5V. A key is manifested as a raised area in a female connector and a gap or absence of pins in a male connector. The key physically prevents an electrically incompatible card from being inserted into a slot.

The ATi specs makes this a non-issue so it does have me a little confused on what is happening.
http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9200/ ... specs.html

i got same problem at him :S

i bought the sapphire radeon 9250 APG(or whatever) and i only get black screen... i tried other cards aswell but only my broken radeon 9800 pro works.. this computer expert said this radeon 9250 should work and he dont get it :S i got good enough computer and my motherboard supports it... but why doesnt it work? do you guys know?

Can you post your system specs please.

Dan

DMB2000uk wrote:Can you post your system specs please.

Dan

mmm..... i'll poist what i know

amd athlon 2800+
1 giga ddr ram
motherboard is ASUS A7n8X
not sure about naything else haha i know nothing about computers....

Are you sure that the 9250 isnt broken? Do you have another computer that you can try it out on?

Dan

nevermind... i think i know whats wrong, the computer thinks im using my old graphic card so i have to go into windows with my old card and uninstall the drivers and so on for it so it goes to default but thanks for help