Why does my video card not work?

i just purcahsed the sapphire radeon 9600 pro 256mb and today i tried connecting it. everything turned out smmothly until i turned it on, when i turned it on no image appeared i tried eberything makign sure everyhting is connceted good but still nothhing. i tried installing my old video card and ebvetyhing was fine. i am sure i met the requiremtns but i still wonder why no image won't appear. i am sure its not my power supply because if it was my computer would overheat i purchased this video card from newegg.com|||I think you need to uninstall the drivers for the old video card that you had and then you should try installing the new Video card. Or maybe your Video card isn't compatible with your Mobo.|||First, uninstall the drivers from the old video card, and install the drivers for the new video card. If necessary, disable the first video card in Device Manager or BIOS (this is really only if it was an onboard graphics card). If all else fails, you might have a bad card and should then RMA it back to newegg.|||is the card compatible? and is the monitor compatible? and did you use the right driver for your OS?|||You should get a new Driver for the Card before installing the card and have it on the desktop. Also I would go to your Control Panel then Appearance and Themes, then Change Your Screen Resolution then Advance, then Adapter Tab(this is where your video card is) then click on Properties for old card, then Driver tab and then hit RollBack Driver(this clears the driver from the card you have in now.) So just install the new card and driver.|||If you get no vid at all, even at initial boot up then a driver is not the issue.



Also did you ground yourself before touching the card to avoid static discharge?



I looked up the specs on that card and if I got it right it is a AGP with DVI-I output. Should be compatible with PC and monitor.



If your old card was using the same slot then you have a bad vid card.



They should replace it.