thanx for your help iwas.
maybe you can help more.
i took my friends graphics card out of his PC.
its an ASUS AGP card. but still no picture.
tried a flat screen and normal monitor. no signal
even unscrewed my own graphics card above and cleaned out dust.
still no joy.
my card makes all the right noises and the fan attached to it whirls rounbd nicely.
any other ideas what might be the problem???

thank you