I had bought a Powercolor HD3850 AGP Graphics card for my computer. Originally I had a thermaltake 420w power supply but since the card wouldnt work I figured it wouldnt provide enough power. So I replaced that psu with a 550w BFG Tech Power Supply. Basically the card doesnt display and the system doesnt boot (gpu fan doesnt spin). The fan on the card twitches when the main power is turned on, if the 6 pin pci-e power connecter isnt connected the fan will spin, sometimes if I leave the computer off for a while and then turn it on the fan will spin but I get no display at all.
The specs of this machine are as follows:
Elitegroup ECS KV2 Extreme Motherboard (VIA Chipset)
Athlon 64 4000+
1gb Ram (2x 512mb)
80gb western digital eide (7200 rpm)
250gb Maxtor eide (7200 rpm)
640gb western digital sata (7200tpm)
Pioneer DVD-RW eide
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 GS
550w BFG GX Series Power Supply
Powercolor HD3850 AGP 512MB
One strange thing I would like to mention is there are 6 pins with 2 jumpers on the card itself, I have no clue what they are for but I have tried putting the jumpers in different configurations but it doesnt seam to change anything.
Any idea what could be wrong? Could it be a setting I need to change? Could the card just be bad?


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