New XFX 6850 - no display.

[solado]

Greetings to everyone here on the forums.

I recently purchiced an XFX 6850, when installing this card the fans run at maximum and there is no display / Post from the computer (no beep). I have gotten a display out of the card twice. One i actualy got into windows, the second time it froze in the bios.

The strange part is that i had another ATI card that did the exact same thing think it was 5700 series. So im not sure if its the motherboard its self which is playing up because i put my old GTX 260 back in and it worked first time.

Could this be a conflict with the Nforce chipset on my motherboard ? I have updated the bios to the latest release from the Asus website and still no joy.

My specs are:
700W Ocz PSU
AMD phenom 9950
Asus M3N-HD (Nforce chipset)
4 GB DDR2 dominator running at 1066 Mhz

 

[solado]

Yea plugged the PCI-E power cable in, made sure it was secure.

I have uninstalled the nvidia drivers from device manager than ran driver sweeper (but this shouldn't stop the display not working during post).

PCI-E 2.0 i checked the motherboard manual and online specifications.

No on board graphics.

Tried both PCI-E lanes; same with the fan running at 100% and no display.

This is confusing me to no end as to why its not working

 

[solado]

Yup, even removed my raid

 

[solado]

Anymore ideas on what the problem could be ?

Should i RMA the card ?