hawkmoon269

Hi again, Thanks for your help but no joy, no picture presume no boot. Put the old card back in and booted fine, during the boot I got the message saying BIOS was reset. One thing, you did mean reset the bios and put the new card in and turn on at the same time? I am sure so, but just checking. Thanks again, step2? (Btw I do have a bios update for my mobo but couldnt get it to install due to 'checksum issue' and I was then informed that the update wouldnt alter anything anyway). Paul

Hi, I bought a ATL HD5870 (GV-R587D5-1-B) and I cant get it to work. After buying a new power source and a case, installing my old set up and getting that to work fine, when I put in the new card in my pc will not start up. The lights on my keyboard flash, the fans including the one on the card work but nothing else, I don’t think windows starts because there is no welcome sounds. I am as sure as I can be that I am powering the card properly, but I have no experience with this. Computer: Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista Home Edition OS Service Pack Service Pack 2 DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c) Computer Name PAUL-PC User Name Paul Motherboard: CPU Type Unknown, 2666 MHz (8 x 333) Motherboard Name Unknown Motherboard Chipset Intel Lakeport-G i945G System Memory 3584 MB (DDR2 SDRAM) BIOS Type Award (02/16/07) Display: Video Adapter Radeon X1650 SE (512 MB) Video Adapter Radeon X1650 SE (512 MB) Monitor HP w1907 Wide LCD Monitor [NoDB] (3CQ827247X) Monitor Sony SDM-HS94P DVI-D [19" LCD] (6205202) Multimedia: Audio Adapter Intel 82801GB ICH7 - High Definition Audio Controller [A-1] Storage: IDE Controller Intel® 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF SCSI/RAID Controller Intel® 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller SCSI/RAID Controller Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Disk Drive SAMSUNG HD320KJ (298 GB, IDE) Disk Drive ST980811 AS USB Device (74 GB, USB) Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GSA-H30L SMART Hard Disks Status OK Partitions: C: (NTFS) 298347 MB (245191 MB free) D: (NTFS) 6895 MB (2 MB free) F: (NTFS) 76308 MB (57888 MB free) Total Size 372.6 GB (296.0 GB free) Input: Keyboard Enhanced Multimedia PS/2 Keyboard Mouse HID-compliant mouse Network: Network Adapter Intel® PRO/100 VE Network Connection (80.193.44.114) 　 Do you think I will be able to get this card working by changing my bios on my motherboard and other drivers (some are old). This is what I hope/think the solution is but I need some advise before I do anything risky, I would be happy paying for a program to help me do this, recommendations would be welcome. Or do I need to upgrade more things? Any help would be greatly appreciated please, and if you need more information please say. Cheers, Paul