Installation Problems!!!

[Bungral]

Howdy people,

I need your help. Just spent the last couple of hours

ing around trying to get my 4870X2 to work. I insert the card and plug in plenty of juice and when I turn on the computer, all I get is a blank screen and no bios or anything. I know it's still loading up in the background as I get the welcome noise.

I thought I had better not have received another dud so I tried to cram it into my dads computer and had to use all sorts of power adaptors to get it powered up but low and behold it worked first time no bother what so ever.

Take it back to my computer to try powering it via adaptors rather than direct 6 and 8 pin power leads but nope nada.... Just wont bloody work in my computer.

I uninstalled my 7900GTO drivers before installing the new card and ummm is there anything else you need to know... Oh yeah I stuck my GTO back in and it's working fine so I didn't break the slot either.

Is there something blindingly obvious I'm missing... I just need a fresh perspective.

Time for bed now after I've installed my bloody 7900 drivers again... Will catch the thread in the morning.

Night all.

 

[Bungral]

Ok had a thought... I know I read somewhere about DFI X38 boards having serious issues registering the X2... Perhaps my X38 isn't happy with it either... I will try a beta bios or something tomorrow.

Any other ideas welcomed

 

[Ham]

Reset the CMOS?

 

[Rastalovich]

I`d be inclined to change the source of power to it and see what happens.

Classic example of an inadequately powered gfxcard is to give u a blank screen, whilst the pc looks as if everything is loading up fine. (pressing caps-lock gives u led on/off etc)

They have a molex adapter thingy in the packaging ? might be worth a try.

 

[zzhang]

Try the other dvi port, you never know...

 

[nepas]

Ok had a thought... I know I read somewhere about DFI X38 boards having serious issues registering the X2... Perhaps my X38 isn't happy with it either... I will try a beta bios or something tomorrow.

Any other ideas welcomed

you have hit the nail on the head mate

 

[Mr. Smith]

Well you bumtard have you sorted it out?

 

[Bungral]

Reset the CMOS?

Will try that if a bios update fails.

I`d be inclined to change the source of power to it and see what happens.

Classic example of an inadequately powered gfxcard is to give u a blank screen, whilst the pc looks as if everything is loading up fine. (pressing caps-lock gives u led on/off etc)

They have a molex adapter thingy in the packaging ? might be worth a try.

"Take it back to my computer to try powering it via adaptors rather than direct 6 and 8 pin power leads but nope nada."

I tried different ways of powering it with molex converters as well as all combos of 6 and 8 pin. If it isn't getting enough juice it has a red light that goes on. The PSU is powerful enough too... For a card just to start up it doesn't take that much power. It's a 700W Coolermaster.

Try the other dvi port, you never know...

Tried that... Used them both with both my monitor and my TV.

Well you bumtard have you sorted it out?

Nup... Been working all day. Will give it a bash in a little while and let you know how I get on.

 

[Diablo13]

I had the same thing happen to me yesterday after I had installed a new cpu. Now this was on a Gigabyte P45 board, which has the drop down type pci express clips for the card. Well after scratching my bits and taking the 8800GTx card in and out a few times, I pushed it in harder! It felt like it was pushed home fully and the clip dropped in, but giving it an extra shove made it sit in tighter and work straight away?

I am not new to this so I was surprised that it felt like 'in' and then 'fully in' if you get my drift.

I know it sounds daft but worth a try as it could be just a tight fitting, while your dads socket may be more worn in?

I hope this helps?

 

[Bungral]

Ok this sucks.... Nothing worked....

I'm a little bit at a loss

Heeeeelp meeeeeeeeeee!!!!

 

[Bungral]

Bwahahahahahahah BwuahahahahahahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[JN]

C'mon then...what did you do...

 

[Bungral]

C'mon then...what did you do...

Lots...

The amount of times I've swapped those cards out is gay!

Nothing would work so I tried everything at once in one last ditch effort.

I totally took of my overclocks and set the bios to default settings, pushed the card in as hard as I could, gave it a cmos reset, made sure it was the most up to date bios, double and triple checked the power connections and it bloody worked.

Ya know what I think might have had something to do with it?? I noticed that the PCI-E frequency was at 120MHz for some crazy reason... No idea why... I wouldn't have set it to that :S

That said my other card was obviously running at that setting.

 

[Diablo13]

Glad you got it sorted Bungral.

Sometimes there just seems no logic to what works and what does'nt. I think setting your bios to default cleared all the settings from your other card and allowed the new one to settle in.

I swapped from a core 2 duo 8500 to a Q9450 and could only get 2 cores seen and half my 4gig of ram. Not sure if a dual bios system on a Gigabyte or any other board saves all your hardware settings, so that you have to completely clear it to install something new? Seems to make sense to me.

At least you got there in the end.

 

[Rastalovich]

Lots...

The amount of times I've swapped those cards out is gay!

Nothing would work so I tried everything at once in one last ditch effort.

I totally took of my overclocks and set the bios to default settings, pushed the card in as hard as I could, gave it a cmos reset, made sure it was the most up to date bios, double and triple checked the power connections and it bloody worked.

Ya know what I think might have had something to do with it?? I noticed that the PCI-E frequency was at 120MHz for some crazy reason... No idea why... I wouldn't have set it to that :S

That said my other card was obviously running at that setting.

Some mobos still link the pci frequency as a factor of the fsb unless u tell them not to.

I wouldn`t be too eager to discount a psu being "more than powerful enough" to kickstart a gfxcard in the future. Even some of the renouned massive watt psus don`t deal enough juice through the pcie connectors that the cards may want. Particularly x2s and very particularly a card that is newer than the psu. Sure they have the power, but not through the right channels.

 

[Bungral]

Yeah I get what your saying Rast but it was plenty enough power and of a decent quality to power up and run my ol GTX280 at full load which was faulty so probably sucking up a little more than it should anyway. Thing was booting out 105 degrees for even the Far Cry starting screen.

 

[PV5150]

Regardless, tis good to see that you got it sorted in the end mate. You've gotta be loving the X2 goodness now :drool:

 

[Bungral]

Regardless, tis good to see that you got it sorted in the end mate. You've gotta be loving the X2 goodness now :drool:

Well as above when I actually get some time I'll give it some loving but just now I can't

Changing the thermal paste to MXII has really had an impact on temps I think... They are a good 5 or so degrees cooler than what has been reported elsewhere.

If I watercool it which I wanna do I am just worried that all I'll hear from my computer is the horrible squeal it gives off when at extreme FPS or under some weird loads.

 

[Toxcity]

The squeal is normal for high end chips.

I have had it for years on a number of GPUs/Motherboards I have just put it down to being young (hearing high pitch noises) and have high frequency FSB/GPU.

I have experimented with it but it seems to stay even when underclocked.

 

[°TheMadDutchDude°]

Yeah I got the same problem and it is for sure the graphics card in my case. Must be the way the PCB is done or something but I am really clueless to that problem. I really wouldn't worry about it.. mine has been running for 4 months now *TOUCH WOOD!* and is still going without a problem and has been overclocked to the max and benchmarked for a couple of hours a number of times so..