Help me im at my wits end...

[-=HaXoMaTiC=-]

I have internet college classes and its 1 day till they are due and i've tried to fix my computer but it seems i just cant get it right... i have a moderate knowledge in computer hardware and software... I'm on a bad laptop atm so im sorry if i mispell due to this tiny keyboard.

Ok, first heres my setup...
MSI K8N Neo Platinum
Athlon 3000+ 64-Bit
2 512 MB sticks OCZ platinum revision 2 ram
Radeon 9800 SE by Xpertgamer
OCZ Modstream 450 Watt PS
2 SATA 250 GB seagate
1 IDE HD 120 GB

Ok, so I have left my computer on for a straight month and it was running ok, I rebooted regularly and have gotten no viruses. I have been having problems with my moniter (Turns off randomly and blurs in and out (signs of death)). I had 2 250GB HD's set up on as a raid and it worked fine up until a few days ago... I awoke to my moniter having streaks of rainbow looking static and locked up completely.

I rebooted and my raid manager (in bios) the raid controller is build into the mobo btw... Was flashing DEGRATED, it wouldnt mirror anymore and i couldnt rebuild my mirror raid RAID-1. I said oh well and just used them like usual...

Ok, aftwr this about 3 days later my moniter just shuts off and goes into standby but my computer remains there, not rebooting and not powering down... I hard powered it down to stop it and tried to reboot it and it would shut of my moniter the second it powered up. I let it sit one day powered down then tried again and it got to the windows screen and fully loaded then froze and after i shut it down thern repowered it up it showed ther bios and the bios screen was black and white and all blocky...

Well i borrowed a PCI card for now and it runs fine without the card but im a gamer and i cant live without graphics. I bought a X850 at my local bestbuy and put it in and heres the kicker... Its an AGP card not pci-e btw...AND IT LOADS BUT MY MONITER WONT TURN ON!!! My sound plays the windows theme and it starts up updating my softwares but i i cant see anything at all... the moniter goes into standby...oh and it beeps one long beep when it starts up.

Did my AGP fry my 9800 and fry this card too ? Did i get a bad card maybe? Is my 450w PS insufficient if i run 3 HD's 1 DVD r/w +/- 1 CD rom 1 floppy and 3 case fans??..oh and it beeps one long beep when it starts up.

I'm at my wits end and I need an answer, your help would mean the world to me.

 

[Static_11]

the long beep- is a bios beep as you probably know... but i have no idea what one long beep means.. but it also sounds like either your monitor's shot or your vid card is faulty

 

[EricB]

you stuck an agp card into a pci-e slot?

 

[joshd]

no, he means it is an agp version of the card, as he does not have a pci slot.

 

[-=HaXoMaTiC=-]

I figured out the problem... for some reason when i pushed it in it slid in on the right and partially on the left
I pushed down and it went in by just 1 tiny smidge....worked after that but im scared my agp slot may fry the 299$ card i just bought over time...

The 9800 was only a few months old... perhaps it just was a crap card? I hope? God this uncertainty is gonna kill me...

 

[EricB]

that wierd

historically amd computer wouldn't boot up if you did that. intel would, but amd's wouldn't.

 

[Apokalipse]

reminds me of the saying "it works better if it's plugged in"

*edit*

you stuck an agp card into a pci-e slot?

only the Neo4's are PCI-E, not the Neo 1's