Trouble with Nvidia gtx 260

[Cornelius Plautus]

I just purchased the aforementioned graphics card and it made my life a living Hell. I've been trying to install the darn thing for about three hours now, and still no luck.

So far, I have it plugged in and everything. All connections seem good; however, I cannot find a place for the yellow, brown, and black power cords.

Moreover, I cannot get my computer to recognize that the card is even there. When I plug my adapter(?) into the card's output slot, it doesn't work. It is worthy of mention also that I have a -terrible- built in graphics system.

Please, I would appreciate any help or adivce; I'm at wit's end, here!

[Freddie]

What do you mean you can't find a place for the 'yellow, brown, and black power cords'? If your referring to 6 pin power connection you find a spare plug coming from your PSU and plug it into the 6 pin hole that at the side of the video card (opposite side to where the gold contact pins are). I doubt you will be able to run this video card (even boot it up) with out the extra power connection.

[Cornelius Plautus]

I'm sorry, but I am a little confused. I have two three-pin power cord outputs. Where can I plug them in/

(please, if you can, explain any terms that a person with only minimal knowledge of computers wouldn't have.)

[Freddie]

I'm sorry, but I am a little confused. I have two three-pin power cord outputs. Where can I plug them in/

(please, if you can, explain any terms that a person with only minimal knowledge of computers wouldn't have.)

Ok I can see where your going wrong here, you can't use 2 X 3 pin power connections you need to use 1 6 pin power connection. IF you don't have that then in the box it should have come with a 2x 4 pin power adaptor to 1x 6 pin connection. It should look something like this.



Just plug 2 4 pin male connections (like the ones that go into your hard drive and DVD drive) into the adaptor then plug the 6 pin into the video card.

[Cornelius Plautus]

I have those pins

Where do I put them?

EDIT: I HAVE A DELL INSPIRON 530

EDIT II: uuh... adapter? uh-oh... I don't think that I have one of those...

[Freddie]

I have those pins

Where do I put them?

EDIT: I HAVE A DELL INSPIRON 530

EDIT II: uuh... adapter? uh-oh... I don't think that I have one of those...

Check the box, they normally do come with these as a standard. If not you will have to buy one.

[Cornelius Plautus]

Well, I thank you for your time; looks like old Plautus is going to take a trip to BestBuy tomorrow.

[GasMask]

Lol.

Learn from this graphics cards are only going to get bigger with twice as many connectors.

I'm still shocked on how many people don't know what a 6 pin connector is its obvious but still quite strange if you will.