Geforce4 mx440 (PCI) not being recognised by PC

[hougtimo]

I have an old emachines (1.1Ghz celeron) that I am turning into our families media center pc, and the 32mb onboard graphics won't work with MCE. I went out and bought a 64mb Geforce4 mx440 PCI card. I have put it in and set the primary graphics adapter to PCI in the BIOS, but I get NO output from it at all. Nothing. When i boot using the onboard windows does not recognise that the new card is there, the BIOS doesn't. What have I missed?

The computer is an Emachines 140dvd - a.

Thanks

HougTimo

[hougtimo]

Nevermind. Just noticed the huge scorch marks, and dried on thermal paste on the underside of the card. Looks like the card wasn't new, as they said it was.

[bonestonne]

just to be curious, was it actually new or open box, or from a person selling it?

also, what was cooling it? it takes really poor cooling to kill a graphics card..my fx5200 just has a big heatsink on it [still working on a fan] but i haven't had an issue with it at all.

[puntoMX]

Most GF4 440 have just a 4(d)x4(w)x1(h) cm heat sink with no fan...