I just purchased a NEW rig and I'm having an issue getting the motherboard to recognize my graphics card. The issue being that I get no video on my monitor when I plug it directly into the card.

My question is, is there something technical here that I'm not seeing? Maybe the PCI-E slot is broken (a way to verify this?)? I'm almost 100% sure that the card is compatible as I have seen various reviews by people using nvidia cards on this board.

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157141
Video card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121268

Note: I know that the card isn't dead as I plugged it in another board and the card worked fine.

I'll ask the OBVIOUS question - did you install the driver?

Did you disable onbaord graphics in the BIOS? To do that you will need to plug your monitor into the onboard video port.This advice is given all the time...however most modern MBoards do this automatically when an addon card is installed.when you go into your bios make sure that the right type of default slot is selected. I just rebuilt a computer for a friend that had onboard graphics. It did have an available agp slot so i put in the card, same problem you had. Went into bios and for some reason the pci slot was selected as the alternate for the onboard video. As SOON as I switched the slot to agp (in my case) it worked just fine also check to see if your video card requires ADDITIONAL power, SOMETIMES there is a plug om the board.