I just got a new videocard off newegg and its a X1650XT 256mb AGP: http://www.hisdigital.com/html/prod... Essentially I need a good card to carry my system for another year. My system specs are as follows: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (@2ghz) 1024mb pc2700 333mhz Radeon 7000 550W power supply (38A output on +12v total) So here's the deal, I plug in the card to the agp slot and turned the computer on. The light on the video card lights up and the fan on it turns on, but the computer doesn't give me the POST single beep like it should, and no output on the monitor. So I turn it off and look around and forgot that I have to plug in my floppy drive connector sized power plug into it (duh). So I did that now when I boot up I get the same symptoms except even with that, the LED on the video card doesn't turn on and just the fan spins. I've went into the bios while using my old card and change AGP to 8x\4x respectively to no avail. Any other ideas on what I can do?

Which motherbaord do you have?

Mainboard Manufacturer : Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. MP Support : 1 Processor(s) MPS Version : 1.40 Model : GA-7VT600 1394 Version : 1.x System BIOS : 08/04/2004-KT600-8237-6A6LYG0SC-00 Chipset : VIA KT400/A, KT600 Chipset 1 Model : Giga-Byte Technology VT8377 Apollo KT400/A/600 CPU to PCI Bridge Bus(es) : ISA AGP PCI IMB USB i2c/SMBus Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 134MHz (268MHz data rate) Maximum FSB Speed / Max Memory Speed : 2x 200MHz / 2x 200MHz It's a (Gigabyte)GA-7VT600 1394.

Make sure you remove old drivers before you setup the new card.Go to Control Panel/Add Remove Programs.A rule of thumb is to use hardware with similar or close specs when you do an upgrade.The video card is probably way too fast for the computer you have.Memory is a possible issue but try the video drivers removal first.