Hi guys, my PC is being a real bitch lately. It was working fine, until I installed a new graphics card. What happens is, when I boot my PC up, I can hear the GPU fan go up to 100% and I get no display at all. I have to reboot until I hear my GPU's fan at 100% and then immediately drop to like 15%, after that, it boots fine. It's been a real pain in the ass, sometimes it takes like 20 tries. Here's my specs:
ASUS P5N-E SLI (I've had more problems with this p.o.s. motherboard)
Q6600 2.4ghz
ATI HD6870 (upgraded from 8800GT)
2GB RAM
Corsair 550Watt PSU
I've set my BIOS settings to default and I've checked my temperatures but they all seem fine:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/0OOmX.jpg[/IMG]
Any ideas?
We had a problem like that just a while ago. As it turned out, the motherboard was failing. Your remarks seem to validate this. :v:
I suppose it could be a power supply problem as well. If you have a spare PSU sitting about, you could try putting that in and seeing if you get the same problem.
Could be a faulty GFX card.
Check the motherboard and PSU for bad capacitors.
Does the PC work properly when it's finally booted? If so, a faulty PSU seems kinda unlikely. If it were the PSU, you'd experience random shutdowns of the entire PC while doing semi-intensive stuff.
I kinda doubt it being the GPU, aswell, seeing as you'd most probably experience artifacts and what not, instead of just the PC not wanting to POST. Seeing as you've had problems with your mobo before, I'm willing to bet that's the component at fault here.
[QUOTE=RixxzIV;30892299]Does the PC work properly when it's finally booted? If so, a faulty PSU seems kinda unlikely. If it were the PSU, you'd experience random shutdowns of the entire PC while doing semi-intensive stuff.
I kinda doubt it being the GPU, aswell, seeing as you'd most probably experience artifacts and what not, instead of just the PC not wanting to POST. Seeing as you've had problems with your mobo before, I'm willing to bet that's the component at fault here.[/QUOTE]
Thank for the replies guys. And yes, the PC works perfectly fine once it's booted. I think I'm going to buy a new motherboard first and see what happens.
[QUOTE=Xeloo;30896506]Thank for the replies guys. And yes, the PC works perfectly fine once it's booted. I think I'm going to buy a new motherboard first and see what happens.[/QUOTE]
Have you tried a different PSU first? You don't need to blow a ton of money on a board for just a bad PSU.
It does appear to be the motherboard causing the problem, i'd switch which slot the video card is in if you can (and make sure it's making good contact with all the pins), then sift through the motherboard bios to see if you can mess with some settings.
Third'd.
Caps
Video card is adding to the ripple formula and the VRM's are starting to feel the hit.
I've had this problem for years and years with a lot of different motherboards. It seems to be a Asus wide issue, as all my Asus motherboards have had the same issue. I found when I had my Striker Extreme mobo that sometimes the bios chip would come slightly dislodged and simply pushing it back in with my finger solved the booting issues. I'm not saying other mobos won't have the same problem but it definitely seems to be a big issue for Asus and has been for years.
[QUOTE=Xeloo;30896506]Thank for the replies guys. And yes, the PC works perfectly fine once it's booted. I think I'm going to buy a new motherboard first and see what happens.[/QUOTE]
Hi Xeloo,
I've been experiencing a similar issue for years on the same motherboard. Where you able to find a resolution to this? I've been trying to solve this literally for years.
Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI
CPU: Intel 775 Core2 Duo 6300
Video Card: Sapphire HD 2600 XT
DVD-Rom: Pioneer 18x DVDRW
Case: AZZA Xion 4 Black 450 Watt
(My Previous Graphics Card, nVidia e-Geforce 600GS 256 MB, overheated and blew out some capacitors)
[QUOTE=satara;37420428]Hi Xeloo,
I've been experiencing a similar issue for years on the same motherboard. Where you able to find a resolution to this? I've been trying to solve this literally for years.
Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI
CPU: Intel 775 Core2 Duo 6300
Video Card: Sapphire HD 2600 XT
DVD-Rom: Pioneer 18x DVDRW
Case: AZZA Xion 4 Black 450 Watt
(My Previous Graphics Card, nVidia e-Geforce 600GS 256 MB, overheated and blew out some capacitors)[/QUOTE]
Hi, I've found out that it was a problem with my motherboard. I'm using the same graphics card on an ASrock P67 Pro 3 and it works fine. So I would suggest trading in your motherboard if it still has warranty.
I decided to just buy a new motherboard since I didn't want to spend too much time trying to fix it.
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