Im still hoping to find a solution, rather than ask for a refund!
Well I'll share my experience as I've been through "hell" then came out the other end, bear with me:
- asus p5q-deluxe, using an old Nvidia 8800GTS
- PSU SilverstoneTech Olympia 750, 12V 60A on one common rail
- got my ASUS 5850
- now the 8800 has only one 6 pin socket, as we all know the 5850 has 2
- out of my PSU there are 2 x PCI-E power cables each with 2 x 6 pin plugs daisy-chained
- I installed one plug from each power cable to the power sockets of my 5850 (thinking some sort of power redundancy, don't like daisy chain, 2 cables better than one, whatever..)
- power-on PC, fan starts spinning at 100%, image nada
- tried re-seating the card, check everything again and again to no avail
Now the good part:
- gave up and decided to put the 8800GTS back in
- I connected one PCI-E power cable, power-on PC and ... you've guessed no image!
- only then I started to sweat
- tried checking everything a few times, no change
- tried another PCI-E slot, same
- thinking I've ruined my motherboard I went up to the loft and dusted off one old PCI card, now that worked!
- then it hit me, RTFM
- got the PSU brochure and discovered the PCI-E power cables, though labelled the same, on the other side of the label is was a small "A" on one and a "B" on the other; each was meant to power up a different card, if only one cable needed then use cable "A"
- of course my 8800GTS was now fed by cable "B", swapped that for cable "A" and voila - it worked
- finally put my 5850 back, used cable "A" with both plugs and it worked
- added my 8800GTS into the other PCI-E slot on the motherboard fed by cable "B" and that worked too.
At the end I removed the 8800GTS, left the 5850 on cable A - gaming hapilly since
I'm not saying this is anyone else's case I thought I'd share what happened to me maybe it helps others.