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Originally Posted by Sean
Since when do video cards require power coming straight from the PSU? Newer video cards including a GeForce 7800GTX, do not.
SLI, on the other hand, does. But that plugs into the motherboard, not into the video card.
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It's a weird mix of cards that require things from the PSU. Any of nVIDIA's recent "leafblower" designs require direct power from the PSU, as do most of nVIDIA's other new cards, such as mine - the FX 5600GT, which isn't a leafblower but has a high-powered cooling fan/heatsink on it, and does more onboard processing and pixel shading to take the load away from the CPU and RAM. Some newer ATI cards also require direct PSU supply.
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Originally Posted by Sean
Million dollar question: Did you actually plug the monitor into the video card, and not just the onboard video adapter?
I've had this issue before. The card may be bad, or the AGP slot may be bad. Or you may have not even plugged it into an AGP slot at all, but a PCI slot by accident.
"Brown slot" doesn't tell us much.
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As for your first point - yes, that would be a problem. I did it when I first installed my 5600GT, and it caused me endless grief until i realized my silly mistake (this was also, coincidentally, the time that i realized that the card required a PSU connection - three prong for mine)
As for the slot issue, the slot colors, interestingly enough, are standardized. PCI is white, AGP is brown (and also has a locking clip), RAM is either white, brown, or magenta, and situated away from the card bay, and PCI-Express is bright yellow. AGP and PCI-E have similar connection layouts, so they could look similar. I've heard rumors about cards that cna somehow connect to either, but I doubt that's true.
Anyway, brown does mean AGP, so hopefully that part was right.