First post, by Woolie Wool
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As people who saw my build thread may have read, I'm having problems with the nVidia GeForce FX 5900 I selected for this build. The first time I had failed to recognize the Molex connector in the back, so of course it didn't work. So today I opened it back up, added a Molex extension cable to reach the card and...it still doesn't work!
What happens, precisely is that the card will display a video signal in the BIOS, but it will hang at "Verifying DMI Pool Data..." and then when I press the reset button, the screen blanks and the monitor goes to sleep. If I power it off, wait a few seconds, and turn it back on again, the same thing happens again. Yesterday, the fan didn't turn when the screen was blanked, but this time it does and there's a blue LED in the middle of it, but regardless it's not giving me any video. Should I buy a more expensive Molex extension cable (this one is pretty flimsy, but it's the only one I've got)? Is it really dead?