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Very odd problem, for savy pc owners only
This is a copy and paste of an email I sent to ATI (which has gotten no
response so far, big surprise there), NOT!! Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? thanks ================================================== ==== Hi, Last week or so I was having to turn the computer off then back on again 2 times for the machine to get into bios, post and boot. Now this morning I go to turn my computer on and it beeps a cpu error everytime I try to to turn it on. Can't get it to post no matter what I do. Disconnected everything but vid and memory but still my computer just sits there fans going, harddrives going(when connected) but no video, no post and beep msg saying there is a cpu problem. I'm posting this with my old 9800pro which I had to stick back in and works fine so obviously there is no cpu problem. I can swap my X800XT and 9800pro all day and 9800pro allows my machine to post and boot properly with no problems while my X800XT hangs my system before bios. I'm wondering if its a power supply problem? I have a decent 400watt PS though. And I don't have another laying around to test with, arg. Bios reads: 1.53,3.26,4.94,11.85,12.36,2.91,5.56 for the various voltages. SandraSoft reads: 1.53,3.25,4.95,11.92,-12.53,-5.15,5.02,2.91 voltages. (These are with my 9800pro however. Can't read my X800 voltages cause I cant even get to bios.) Well I went a bought a quality Antec power supply to try - still doesn't work, can't post, same cpu beep code. Put 9800pro back in and going to drop vid card off at friends house for them to put in their system to test card. Seems I may have a card gone bad but won't know for sure. The odd thing is, my computer was working perfectly fine for a week with my new X800XT. After a week my machine started acting odd: on cold boot I would for some reason have to turn my machine on then off then on again to get it to boot into bios and continue normally. If I didn't do this my computer would sit there beeping the cpu error never getting into bios. Well just got a call from my friend who's testing out my X800XT for me in his(2 month old) athlon64 3200+ rig and it booted and worked fine in his computer. I'm having him do some a few cold boots before giving me the card back. (It booted and worked fine each time.) It's almost as though my computer slowly degraded over a week and a half from perfect to funky cold booting error to can't boot at all. I changed nothing on my system during this time besides perhaps a few demo or program installs within winXP. I just don't get it. Its just so odd that all works great with my 9800pro and I simply put in the X800XT and blam, computer won't post. Any suggestions would be helpful, thank you. Btw, I consider myself VERY computer hardware and software savy so any tech speak is fine. Regards, Derek ================================================== ====== Edit: Since this email, I've borrowed my card to another different friend to test the video card in his system (very new Prescott system) and it works perfectly fine for him also. I'm guessing I have a motherboard problem. It's as though some component on my motherboard slowly burned up with the X800XT in my system and then degraded far enough that it prevents my system from booting up. However, at the same time something different about the 9800pro design doesn't require as much 'draw' from this degraded MB component and allows my system to work seemingly normally. This sound possible? Albatron K8T800ProII, ADATA PC4000 1 gig, athlon64 3200+, nothing overclocked |
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