What's wrong?

[CuriousGeorge]

I inserted my new 8600 GT card into my PC's PCI-Ex16 slot, turned on the computer, but the monitor remained blank. (Yes, it was on.)

The computer and fan started up fine, I even heard the Window's login music.

Why won't the monitor receive the signal?

I operate a http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=T5212.

The PSU is http://www.impactcomputers.com/hp-p3527f3.html.

It's 300W, but I heard that 8600GT only draws 50W of power, so it shoulda been fine.

 

[werner]

go into the bios, you'll find some setting for graphics priority or similar, with the option of

integrated or pci first

set it to pci first.

 

[CuriousGeorge]

My BIOS has no video settings in it.

I looked everywhere.

I manually disabled the integrated card in Device Manager.

 

[CuriousGeorge]

I should also mention that I have a card in one of the short white PCI slots.

 

[kevinswan007]

I inserted my new 8600 GT card into my PC's PCI-Ex16 slot, turned on the computer, but the monitor remained blank. (Yes, it was on.)

The computer and fan started up fine, I even heard the Window's login music.

Why won't the monitor receive the signal?

I operate a http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=T5212.

The PSU is http://www.impactcomputers.com/hp-p3527f3.html.

It's 300W, but I heard that 8600GT only draws 50W of power, so it shoulda been fine.

do you have the 6-pin power thing plugged in from the psu to the card? some cards require that extra cable. should come with the new card.

 

[Glordit]

That PSU is just fine, 8600GT requires a 300Watt.
Have you pluged in the 3/6 pin plug to give the card power?

Your motherboard has:
ATI Radeon® Xpress 200
"The integrated graphics are based on the ATI Radeon X300 GPU with full OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0 support"

that is probably onboard display, do you know which make your motherboard is?

 

[hxc87x]

you probably already checked this, but in case you are like me, check if you left your signal cable in your motherboard instead of plugging it into your card. i forgot to do this and spent half an hour trying to figure out what was wrong

 

[HavocXphere]

My BIOS has no video settings in it.

I manually disabled the integrated card in Device Manager.

Check your bios again. I'm 99% sure that you can disable the integrated video in the BIOS on just about all mobos.

Disabling it in the device manager wasn't a good idea...but should make much of a difference.

 

[QX6700RULZ]

I should also mention that I have a card in one of the short white PCI slots.

ummm that is a pci slot and will not take a pci-e card, what is your mobo's brand and name ?

nvm saw the specs, the card has to be plugged in to the pci-e slot

 

[feo]

I inserted my new 8600 GT card into my PC's PCI-Ex16 slot, turned on the computer, but the monitor remained blank. (Yes, it was on.)

The computer and fan started up fine, I even heard the Window's login music.

Why won't the monitor receive the signal?

I operate a http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=T5212.

The PSU is http://www.impactcomputers.com/hp-p3527f3.html.

It's 300W, but I heard that 8600GT only draws 50W of power, so it shoulda been fine.

Is your monitor an LCD?

If so, try pressing the "source" button. Your LCD might be looking for the video from the wrong source (i.e. DVI, VGA etc).