Nvidia 8400 gs problem or pcie problem.

[DARKSHOT]

Hi, i have a intel dq35jo motherboard with pcie slot x16.
I tried a nvidia 8400 gs card and monitor shows no signal.

Card work on another mob, but in this mob fan works and all works but shows no signal.
I reseated the bios and still not working.

In dq35jo i have a PSU 350W (Win 7. c2d e8400, 4gb ram, 80gb samsung and dvd rw) and in the other mob where the video card work i have 240W PSU and i have win XP with 2gb of ram and pentium 4 3.2 ghz and 80gb WD.

In bios says when video card is in pcie slot the onboard automated turned off. But in my case, video card shows nothing, black screen.

I searched on google 5 days and no answer ...
Sorry for may bad english.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
Could be the monitor is set to the wrong port
Onboard graphic's is usually a VGA port so the monitor might be set on that port,
If the card which I have not looked up uses a DVI port you might need to switch on the monitor usually with the monitors settings buttons.

 

[DARKSHOT]

Video card have VGA and DVI, i use VGA, and monitor is set for VGA. And nothing ...

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
If this is the card
EVGA 8 GeForce 8400 GS 01G-P3-1302-LR 1GB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card - Newegg.com
There could be an issue with the pigtail on it,
See if switching to the DVI port does anything
You can also try the hdmi port too :/

 

[DARKSHOT]

I have Nvidia MSI 8400 gs 512 mb 64 bit, i have only a cable for VGA.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
512mg is probably the same as your onboard graphic's uses
Using that low of a gpu is I would imagine a net gain of zero :/

The only advantage would be if you were wanting to use dual monitors which it does not sound like you are doing ?

 

[DARKSHOT]

I have intel gma 3100, is ....

Video card work in another mob, but in this mob wont turn on ... but fans work ...

 

[ThrashZone]

Pretty weird :/
If you're sure it's seated all the way in try a dvi cable that's about the only test I know of
Besides trying another card ?

 

[DARKSHOT]

I will try Ati Radeon 6450 in few days.

 

[ThrashZone]

Yep if it fails I would suspect a bad pci-e slot

 

[DARKSHOT]

In this site Nvidia 8400 is not listed, my motherboard is not compatible with nvidia 8400 gs.
Intel DQ35JO Mobo Compatible PC GPUs

 

[ThrashZone]

This is a better card and was on the list
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 - Best Compatible GeForce GTX 660 GPU

 

[DARKSHOT]

Hm, i try to install win xp in onboard video, nvidia 8400gs is working in win xp, maybe will work now.
Is a diference for video card, operation sistem?

 

[ThrashZone]

Not that I'm aware of os shouldn't make any difference
I'm not even sure why the card it's self is not compatible besides being low end and your onboard graphic's is equal or possibly better

 

[DARKSHOT]

I will buy a new video card later. I will test the pci-e slot ...

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Good deal,
I would however at the least get a 1gb card so it's an upgrade from onboard graphic's

 

[DARKSHOT]

I will test another video card, maybe will work, maybe not.

But if will work, i will buy a 1gb+ video card and a PSU ...