Nvidia FX 5500 Not working...?

Question

I recently bought an Nvidia Geforce FX5500 PCI card with 256MB DDR memory from my friend. When i install it in my computers PCI slot the fans and hard drives and everything spin up but nothing comes on the screen and the power led does not come on. When i re-install my old AGP graphics card (a Geforce 2 lol) the computer boots up and runs perfectly. i have the driver for the card installed from the Nvidia website, so thats not the problem... I am thinking this is a problem with the card or the powersource but would like a second oppinion. my friend also said the card might of been static zapped, and i hope thats not the case, but i would get my money back if thats what happened.

My system:
1 Western Digital 40 GB hard drive
1 Maxtor 10 GB hard drive (slave)
1 CD-RW Drive
1 DVD Drive
Stock Motherboard (Emachines)
AMD XP 2200+ processor
Nvidia Geforce 2
Windows XP SP2 with all updates

Answer 1

Maybe it's because of a teeny weeny power supply. Your GF2 is just a 15 watter. The FX5500 is great in sucking out the juice from your PC. It draws about 50 watts. Upgrade the power supply to one w/ 50W or more higher rating.

Also do not expect much performance from a better card but still using the VERY SLOW PCI slot. That slot will just slow down any good card you plug in there. You could have asked the geeks here or considered upgrading to a motherboard w/ 8X AGP slot. Gaming performance improvement would have been better w/ a FX5500 AGP that may also have been cheaper.

Answer 2

If it does run (it ought to not run in any respect) it will be at a terrible, unplayable framerate, and could not even seem precise simply by older pixel shader version on your video card. So, the quick answer isn't any.

Answer 3

Sounds like the card is fried. Get your money back.

Good luck

Answer 4

I think DDR memory is too new for your pc.