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Problems installing a FX5900
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Sorry this is a long post .. Ive tried to include as much relevant detail as possible. I have purchased a WinFast A350tdh FX5900 graphics card and this morning i decided to fit it into my existing system: MSI KT3 Ultra ARU, Athlon XP1700, 256mb PC2100, XP Pro (current card Radeon 8500) I removed ATI's Catalyst drivers first and then fitted the card and connected it to my PSU with the power cabling supplied. I then restarted my sys. During the POST i normally get a message saying "Detecting IDE Devices" followed by the options to press ESC to continue the boot sequence & CTRL-C to setup my RAID. I always press ESC as ive never bothered with my RAID capabilities. However - on this occasion when these options appear on screen neither seems to work... And the boot-up process goes no further. I tried several reboots (checking all connections etc) and the same thing occurs. So i removed the FX5900 and put back my 8500. I left the FX supplied power cables fitted tho. The system seemed to boot normally until the expected XP Boot-up screen failed to appear and the sys just hung. I removed the new power cables and rebooted the machine which booted normally. So ... For some reason the FX card is causing my system to fail during the POST. Could it be an AGP issue? As my board supports AGP x4 but the card is AGP x8... Or perhaps a PSU issue? My PSU is a 300w unit.. Would the FX card drain too much power from the supply to maintain motherboard integrity? (i have 2 hard drives, a CD-R and a seperate DVD drive too) Or perhaps there is a problem with the supplied cable? What about BIOS? Are there any settings which may be causing a conflict? I havent flashed the BIOS as ive never needed to ... If it aint broke then dont fix it is my motto! Or are there some other factors which im unaware of? Thanks for reading |
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on Mon January 12 2004 3:43 pm, Hogboy decided to enlighten us with:
So ... For some reason the FX card is causing my system to fail during the POST. Could it be an AGP issue? As my board supports AGP x4 but the card is AGP x8... No. The only issue that could by that is if you put a 2X card in there. That might be a problem. Or perhaps a PSU issue? My PSU is a 300w unit.. Would the FX card drain too much power from the supply to maintain motherboard integrity? (i have 2 hard drives, a CD-R and a seperate DVD drive too) Doubt it. Gateway only ships something like 240 watt PSU's with their systems and did a demonstration where they showed that during normal computing, the PSU was never taxed because you won't be using all of your peripherals at the same time and therefore not taxing the PSU enough to cause it to sag like that. Or perhaps there is a problem with the supplied cable? Highly probable, since with it, you had troubles with both cards, didn't you? What about BIOS? Are there any settings which may be causing a conflict? I havent flashed the BIOS as ive never needed to ... If it aint broke then dont fix it is my motto! If you didn't change any BIOS settings from card to card, I doubt it unless you changed your apperature grid size or something for ATi card and the FX card doesn't like it. Most motherboards ship with the setting at 64MB and that should work for all cards. Or are there some other factors which im unaware of? I suspect either the cable and possibly a bad card too. -- Big Daddy Ruel Smith My SuSE Linux machine uptime: 6:19pm up 36 days 3:04, 2 users, load average: 0.19, 0.28, 0.25 My Windows XP machine uptime: Something less... |
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