GeForce xfx 9600 GT video card wont work

i bought a 9600 GT nvidia xfx geforce  video card, the CD it came with says go to nvidia.com for latest drivers. i go to the site and install latest drivers, dosent work. i go to xfxforce.com register my vid card and get the drivers specific to my card and it says cannot read the hardware. nvidia says its not a nvidia driver. ive tried other drivers and nothing has worked. i spent a hundred dollars on a video card i cant return or get to work. please help.

i bought a 9600 GT nvidia xfx geforce  video card, the CD it came with says go to nvidia.com for latest drivers. i go to the site and install latest drivers, dosent work. i go to xfxforce.com register my vid card and get the drivers specific to my card and it says cannot read the hardware. nvidia says its not a nvidia driver. ive tried other drivers and nothing has worked. i spent a hundred dollars on a video card i cant return or get to work. please help.

Does your motherboard have on-board video and, if so, is it disabled in the BIOS?

right now i have a 9400GT installed works perfect. just basically putting a bigger better video card in.

Ok, then did you uninstall the driver you used for the 9400 before attempting to install the 9600?

i didnt delete it the first time i tried to install but after trying several times i went in and completly removed anything with a nvida tag and tried from scratch. then i went to nvidia site and installed the series 9 drivers (with the 9600 installed) it didnt work. so i put my old video card in (9400 GT) and that worked just fine. so the drivers were installed. but my PC is neglecting to read my 9600 as nvidia or xfx

Perhaps a faulty card.

You did plug the power cable into the card, right? Some people forget that.

i dont see a spot for a power cable for the video card but it is running fan is spinning and a little red light is on\. is there another cable im missing? and i hope it isnt a faulty card because i cant return it.

i dont see a spot for a power cable for the video card but it is running fan is spinning and a little red light is on\. is there another cable im missing? and i hope it isnt a faulty card because i cant return it.

Look at this page:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/666/4/

See the back end of the card? There's a 6-pin plug there. There should be a 6-pin power cable coming from your power supply specifically for PCIe cards, or you'll need to use an adapter that converts 2 molex plugs into the 6-pin plug you need.

well i pluged that in and the red light went off lol i will try installing the software again.

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i tried installing software again and got this error

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i restarted my comp and lost all displays tried the dvi ports one worked, i was successful in installing my software and it is now running smoothly. it was the simplest of things just a missing power cord. ty very much for you help =)

well i pluged that in and the red light went off lol i will try installing the software again.

Please tell me you turned off and unplugged the computer when you did that.

lol yes i turned it off when i did that =)

lol yes i turned it off when i did that =)

Oh, ok. For a second there I got the impression that you just plugged it in while it was still going haha

Anyway, so all is working properly now, right?

yes everything is working fine. when i pluged the cord in and turned it on it prompted me to install and i did. now i have a much faster computer. =)