Just when I thought I got it fixed...
I played around with the power leads last night, and replaced the 6-pin plug from the power supply with the 4-6 pin adaptor that came with the video card. I booted up the machine and... no message! The card fired up and ran at full speed. The next time I rebooted though, it was back.
In a few minutes I'm going to call the service desk of the store where we bought the card and see if they have any insight. I'm sure they'll just tell me to bring it back so that we can swap it out for another card. Hopefully one that, ya know, works.
I've done a bit of my own research online, but Google has been less-than helpful. Likewise the card's manufacturer site. The manual... ah. What a wonderful piece of work that is. It's about 100 pages, but it's a single manual for every video card they make (from ISA through to PCI-EX). 80+ pages of it are pictures of video cards with the caption, "If you bought card xxx then it should look like this." The rest are instructions in every language (English, German, Swahili, Sanskrit) saying little more than, "Plug the card into the only slot where it fits. If it has a hole for a power cable then plug one in. Plug the monitor into the other end. Install the stuff off the disk. If it doesn't work, here's how you RMA it."
I've never had this kind of trouble with an ATI card, but the first two nVidia-based ones I've dealt with have been lemons.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pierrekrahn's 6600 never worked straight from the box (and in the process of trying to get it working, we ended up turning his motherboard into a paperweight). Now my 6800 looks like it might be bad as well. Maybe it's not too late to trade across for an X850. I'd happily take a slightly slower card that actually works.
In a few minutes I'm going to call the service desk of the store where we bought the card and see if they have any insight. I'm sure they'll just tell me to bring it back so that we can swap it out for another card. Hopefully one that, ya know, works.
I've done a bit of my own research online, but Google has been less-than helpful. Likewise the card's manufacturer site. The manual... ah. What a wonderful piece of work that is. It's about 100 pages, but it's a single manual for every video card they make (from ISA through to PCI-EX). 80+ pages of it are pictures of video cards with the caption, "If you bought card xxx then it should look like this." The rest are instructions in every language (English, German, Swahili, Sanskrit) saying little more than, "Plug the card into the only slot where it fits. If it has a hole for a power cable then plug one in. Plug the monitor into the other end. Install the stuff off the disk. If it doesn't work, here's how you RMA it."
I've never had this kind of trouble with an ATI card, but the first two nVidia-based ones I've dealt with have been lemons.
pierrekrahn's 6600 never worked straight from the box (and in the process of trying to get it working, we ended up turning his motherboard into a paperweight). Now my 6800 looks like it might be bad as well. Maybe it's not too late to trade across for an X850. I'd happily take a slightly slower card that actually works.