Just bought a ATi 9600XT today and installed it but now I am having issues running it for some reason.

I boot up and am able to run windows for a short period then the card shuts down on me and won't run. I have a 300w power supply that is in excellent working order and am running 2 hard drives 2 DVD Roms and a floppy off it.

Am I drawing too much power and it is forcing the vid card to shut down? or am I missing something here?

I installed as usual and set it to 1280x1024 resolution and figured I would drop a level but it won't stay booted long enough to let me do it.

The fan is working fine and I have another floor fan blowing on the case just in case that was the issue but it doesn't seem to be doing anything to help

Help!!!!

 

sounds like a p/s issue to me. put a 400w or better in there and i bet it cures all. gl.

300 is not enough.

 

do u have the latest driver?

 

dammit don't tell me that

Is it really that much of a power draw to run a vid card though? My last card ran fine on it which was an MX400...granted it was older but is it really that much more of a draw on the power supply?

The computer itself is still on but the vid card goes black on me.

 

i had a 350w powering 4 hd's, 2 cd roms, and a bunch of fans, and half the time 1 or 2 of my hard drives wouldn't have enough power to be read correctly and the system would randomly lock up, or turn off. after i bought my 450w p/s, i never had another problem.

 

I only have the driver that came with the card....I can't stay up long enough to DL the latest. I was in the process of setting the resolution and refresh rates when it started doing this.

 

xt cards use alot of power.

 

I am trying unhooking one of the DVD drives and see what happens.

 

i think the minimum suggested for a 9600 card is 350w. how many fans do you have? and what speed proc?

 

doesn't that card have a 4pin molex power connector for the video card?