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Originally Posted by Stoker
A couple of months ago I purchased a second hand video card (nvidea 6600GT) to replace my old FX5200. It all seemed to work fine but now and again the monitor goes black (no video signal) and I have to hit the reset button to get it going again. Sometimes the whole computer just turns off completely. My PSU is only 400 watt, could this be the problem or did i buy a dud second hand video card?.
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Unlikely your video as such, would cause the whole system to shut down, the first thing I would check, not being familiar with that card, is that the power connector to the card is properly inserted and what is more likely is that the card is seated in the slot properly. I would never buy a video card second hand in case the reason he got rid of it because it was causing problems, did you check that the card edge connector was clean as well as the slot before inserting? What brand is the PSU
