On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:13:27 +0000, kato while doing time wrote:

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Any help with this one would be very gratefully received:

I have just installed a new Graphics card and Motherboard in my PC:

GeForce 5600 and Gigabyte GA-7VA.

The trouble is, nothing (nothing!) is displayed on the monitor unless I
remove the graphics card and refit it just before I switch the machine
on. If I leave the machine off overnight - in the morning the graphics
card has to be removed and refitted before it will boot up. The
harddrive and power light come on but there is no video.


I have cleared the CMOS and loaded the fail-safe defaults but I am beat
with this one...

...does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Jo

I just had the same problem trying to fit an MSI fx5600 - on closer
examination it turned out that the fan / heatsink was too close to the
contacts and would not let the card sit fully in the slot (you can
actually feel it 'rocking' on the heatsink as you try to press it into the
slot).

I removed it (just two clips), filed the edge of the heatsink down and
refitted back onto the card. Plugged it back into the pc and it worked
perfectly.

Power supply okay? Might try exchanging that GF for another card just to
make sure you don't have a dud.


What make is your card?