I recently won a Sapphire X1900XTX Toxic in a competition, it was shipped from America to Ireland. I bought a Antec Sonata II case ( Antec 450 W Smart Power 2 PSU incl) and a Asus A8N SE motherboard and a AMD 3700 from overclockers.co.uk to go with the new graphics card. I used the RAM (2x512 PC3200 DDR) and IDE hard drive from my old computer to save on money. I managed to get it all assembled with no problems. I then booted and got 1 long beep and 2 short. I checked up what it meant (Asus A8N SE has Award BIOS) and it means that the graphics card either isn't seated properly or is dead. I really hoped i wasn't dead as I just want to get it up and running but after reseating it a couple of times I'm starting to think that it is dead. Is there any other explanation for this ie my PSU isn't good enough? I have 15A and 17A on the 12v rails. I assumed this was the bare minimum but enough to boot at least. Please help. Sending it back will be expensive as it will be at least $40 to ship and I will probably have to pay for other charges too and it may work out cheaper to buy another graphics card.
-Dev
So yeah the rig in my sig is the broken one.
-Dev
So yeah the rig in my sig is the broken one.
