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hey guys well i got my christmas money and i start buyin upgrades for the computer, so i bought a LED Fan and a Stealth ATI Radeon 7000 64MB graphics card well i shut down the computer to put in the graphics card and that went fine but i went to turn it back on and it did nothin, i have no idea what went wrong i was wonderin if anyone else does. i checked the power cords switched em, switched the motherboard, still nothin so maybe the power supply is broke?
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one way to see if it is your power supply is to dry run it. you can do this by using a paper clip and jumping two pins.
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try your old card again and see if that works. but it just sounds like you have a dead psu
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Yea thats what i thought i'm just going to put in a older power supply seenin as a spent all my money. but why did it decide to break the second i put the graphics card in?
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why dont you try opening your bios, and making sure the new gfx card is the one that is the one being used
i think you have to do this for it to work
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Did your computer boot up but you got a black screen? Or did nothing happen at all?
If everything is dead and not coming on, maybe you fried something important (always ground yourself when handling computer parts!)
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meh, frying something is pretty hard.. static isnt too much of an issue, but ya, just as a precaution, touch something metal, like your case
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i did, the only thing i havent changed yet is the power supply so it gotta be the power suply it happen to me 3 other times on diff comps