Aegis Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 I've been having a bad day as far as computers go. Never having had used a PCI-E card before, I plugged in my card hoping all was good to go. But then I noticed that I forgot to plug in the power connector from my card to the power supply. So I fetched the plug, but noticed that the yellow wire on one of the connectors had somehow detached itself. Not thinking much about it, I reattached it into one of the free slots in the connector. Then I power up my computer and...nothing. I recheck everything and I still get a blank screen. Isolating everything worked, so I thought it might be the video card. It turned out that my carelessness reinserted the yellow wiring into the wrong place !!! So now my question is, is there any way to detach the yellow power connector wire and reattach it into the right place?On another note, something (I'm not sure what it's for) on my motherboard burnt down...Could it be possible that turning the power supply on and off to shutdown the computer is a bad idea?
spazmire11 Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 a slight tug and push should fix the yellow wire, turning on and off the computer with the psu's power switch poses no real threat other then data lose, you could check with another pc to see if the video card still works tho it might not depending on where you put the yellow wire. if it dosent work just rma/excange it and say it was dead out of the box.
Aegis Posted December 31, 2005 Author Posted December 31, 2005 I've tried tugging and pulling, but it's still stuck...
Vitalix Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 (edited) On another note, something (I'm not sure what it's for) on my motherboard burnt down...Could it be possible that turning the power supply on and off to shutdown the computer is a bad idea?What type of PSU is it? The PSU may not have enough juice to fire up the mobo with the video card.Are you running SLI? Some boards need a molex plugged into the board itself or they behave goofy (at least my eVGA NF41 needs one for SLI/OK with a single card). Edited December 31, 2005 by Vitalix
ripken204 Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 Rosewill Value RV450S Power Supply - $26.99that what he go, and thats prolly why
Aegis Posted December 31, 2005 Author Posted December 31, 2005 http://www.crystalfontz.com/software/cryst...es/hd-molex.jpgI switched the wire from the first hole to the fourth. Any way to buy a replacement cable? Going through the RMA process is overkill to fix such a simple problem. And I ran my video card without the power connector at all, though I didn't notice any change.
Vitalix Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 I switched the wire from the first hole to the fourth. Any way to buy a replacement cable? Going through the RMA process is overkill to fix such a simple problem. And I ran my video card without the power connector at all, though I didn't notice any change.I would just skip that molex. This is for the 6-pin PCI-E to molex adaptor, right?Is this a similar adapter?
Aegis Posted December 31, 2005 Author Posted December 31, 2005 Indeed! I'm not sure it's safe to skip it though, since my monitor output failed to appear. Then again, I don't even know if two molexes are required, or if the lack of output is due to me not having inserted the processor yet .
Vitalix Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 Hmmmm.....have you tried to finagle the flux capacinator?
LLXX Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 (edited) According to your explanation, you just fried your video card. You connected the +12v to the +5v input.On another note, something (I'm not sure what it's for) on my motherboard burnt down...You fried your mobo too. Putting 12v into the video card also put 12v through the PCI-E and into the mobo's 5v circuitry. Edited December 31, 2005 by LLXX
Aegis Posted December 31, 2005 Author Posted December 31, 2005 (edited) ! If I fried it, then why was the fan onboard the video card operational? And the chipset fan was running also. The Port 80 code was FF. Edited December 31, 2005 by Aegis
nfm Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 @LLXXI think you're correct,You can easily fry mobo by just shorting extra fan plug on mobo
ripken204 Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 wow this sucks, you havnt even been able to play with it, now your xp gamer edition gets delayed i dont suppose that you have a pci vid card to test?
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