I ordered a new video card for my PC...?

After installing a new video card for my PC i got one long beep and two short beeps which i read could mean the memory might not be seated or the video card is not present. So after reseating everything and trying for 30 minutes i ended up putting in my old video card.

Now that I have installed my old video card it turns on and i see my motherboard splash screen then it doesnt seem to load past that. In my bios my boot order is correct and everything, now im lost.|||One of two things may have happened:

Either your PC tried to read the new video card and just failed and is now still trying to look for it

OR (more than likely)

You may have damaged the mobo. This exact problem happened to me a while back when i tried to install a video card. I dont think the power supply was enough for it so it ended up frying my motherboard. In the end i had to get a new motherboard. You may have to also.



Sorry about the bad news!|||Another option might be that your powersupply isn't up to the job but that nothing fried. Maybe Just buy a new powersupply and try again. That you can't boot does implicate a possible hardware problem but maybe it's not, maybe getting a new powersupply is worth the gamble.



Also make sure to connect powercables to any powerconnectors on the videocard if present, if they are there you need to use them. Some videocards with 6 pins power connector may allow you to use a molex to 6 pins pci-express adapter but some high end cards realy need real 6 pins pci-express connectors. And, place the videocard in a suited slot, don't put a pci-e card in an agp slot or something, that would spell disaster, and generaly carefully follow any instructions, don't do anything without being sure what you are doing.



Of course there may be any kind of hardware problem.



I do know that having a marginal powersupply can make your videocard fail to work without necessarily causing any damage.



You can still boot into the bios using the old card, that's a good sign. Look for any peculiarities. Are all your harddrives still recognized, does a full post (power on selftest) go wel etcetera. If you see all kind of weird things going on there may be a serious hardware problem, else there might just be a bios problem or a small hardware problem like a loose cable.



Another aproach is buying a new hdd (so u can recover the data from the old hdd later) and just try to install windows again on an empty hdd.



It's a kind of gamble though, the more you observe the more educated the gamble becomes.