Halp?
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That's pretty dumb <_<
You can get a 500-600w PSU which is more than enough for the large majority of users' needs that is way more efficient than a 1000w PSU for the same price!There's no reason to get a 1000w PSU. Get a 600w 80+ Gold certified PSU every time. You'll even struggle to use all that unless you're overclocking or have dual cards.
Back on topic though, I doubt you need a new PSU as well, at the very least you would boot to the desktop and crash when you played an intensive game or something with a sub par PSU. Try the card in another machine, that's your best bet. If you've reset your cmos, disabled onboard gpu, plugged in the axillary power (if necessary) and done all the obvious things, then it's likely just a dead gpu. These things happen from time to time. It's probably not your PSU, as that would at least get your computer to beep a few times.
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Oh, I thought this was about fixing up a gaming rig. Not a piece of shit.
Like SI's PC
Granted, I'm just now wondering to myself why a GT 240 in the first place when 9800's were round the same price tag.
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Also, if the original video was an on-board video, you may need to disable the on-board video before any other video card would work.
I'm guessing that's probably it, but my system uses CMOS instead of BIOS, and I can't find any options through it to disable my on-board card.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS
I could not reply to your question due to this, you normally have to press a key during boot to get to the BIOS , some common keys are ESC, F12, or DELETE
If I am getting to my BIOS I normally spam the key I am pressing to make sure I get it, hope this helps.
If you found some other way to try this then feel free to ignore this post.