Hey there guys, thanks for reading this. Now, as the subject says, I've got a problem. I'd been having some heat issues with the old Sony case that my RB-30 had come with, so the other night, I bought a new case, and spent the better part of three hours carefully dismantling the Sony to remove the motherboard and optical drives and install them into the new Antec that I got. Now, before we get down to it, I just want to stress how absolutely careful I am when I handle my computer components in every way. So, anyways. Long story short, I get everything safely tucked into the new case, re-attach it, and fire it up. Fans fire up, harddrive and optical drives as well, proc-fan, videocard fan.... but no video. I was more annoyed than alarmed the first time, so I disconnected it, reseated the graphics card (PCI-E Radeon), and tried again, still nothing. Then I went into troubleshooting, removing the power to the optical drives, the fans, everything, and tried again. No boot, no codes, no video. But, I did make an interesting discovery. When the system was just idling there after the power had been turned on, I had hit the F1 button, and it began to boot. No video, but it booted into my OS. I waited a moment, typed my password for my OS into the keyboard, and boom, the windows startup chime fired off. I waited another minute, and then ALT-F4'd it, pressed enter once, and 10 seconds later, the system shut itself off. Which tells me that the ram, proc, and harddrive are intact. But the fact that the video card is dead isn't something I"m ready to conceed, given its state before I disassembled the machine, and the care I took in doing so. Thoughts?

Does your video card require a separate power connector from the power supply? ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe AMD Athlon X2 4800+ 2GB RAM, X1900GT 2x37GB WD Raptors, RAID 1 1x250GB WD Storage

The SONY PSU/Case was it standard ATX or proprietary ??