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Camoe · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:04

Just testing something that i built and both screens died, and the red warning light appeared on my HD3870x2. I have tried to turn it on again with no luck. On the 20pin motherboard connecter I patched the ground and the negative and the power supply and case lights worked fine. What is my problem??

MeatLoaf · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:08

Sounds like ur cards borked

Brizzles · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:08

Camoe said:
Just testing something that i built and both screens died, and the red warning light appeared on my HD3870x2. I have tried to turn it on again with no luck. On the 20pin motherboard connecter I patched the ground and the negative and the power supply and case lights worked fine. What is my problem??

Kinda depends on ' Just testing something that i built ' ?

Frankenstein had a similar problem

Camoe · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:10

When I put the kettle cable in nothing happened at all???

Guru · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:11

are both power connectors plugged in on the gfx card?

What PSU?

Is the fan spinning on the card?

Camoe · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:12

standard PSU, nothing is powering on at all. Nothing

Tr Insanity · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:13

What brand/wattage of PSU is what he means, I think

Camoe · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:14

Its not named.

SteveB · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:15

Start by checking the PSU powers itself up. Unplug all the connectors from your pc, then bridge the green wire to one of the black ones. I use the wire tie wrap things that are twisted around new cables for this. This is from memory but I'm sure someone can confirm this is the way to do it.

If nothing then maybe check the fuse in the 'kettle' lead.

Camoe · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:16

I have done that and the PSU is fine??

SteveB · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:18

Does the PSU still power up when connected to the mobo? If not that might be as far as you can investigate without another mobo to try.

Guru · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:18

what mobo? Possibly it needs more than just the 20 pin connector? is there another socket on it for a 4 pin?

Camoe · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:19

If it did get the mobo would it have damaged the grapihics card, CPU and ram??

Camoe · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:19

and both are plugged in.

Brizzles · 18 Mar 2010 at 20:45

red on the gfx card is usually a sign of no power/not enough power.

Camoe · 18 Mar 2010 at 21:16

yeah, i have come to the conclusion that i have well and truly frazzled my mobo..

Guru · 18 Mar 2010 at 22:21

Take it all apart and start again. far too little information in this thread for us to be of any real use

PhillyDee · 18 Mar 2010 at 22:23

Firstly,
No brand PSU? unknown wattage? Get rid. Buy a decent one for starters.
Red light on graphics card?
Confirm what the light means first. Is it power, not enough power etc.

Have you used the card before?

Yurihyuga · 18 Mar 2010 at 23:16

well the fact you used a bad power supply on a X2 graphics card = your pretty much screwed just gotta hope that it just powered itself down and didn't take any of the parts with it.

first thing you can really only do is buy a new BRANDED power supply put it in and see if everything works from there people can work out what parts are faulty if it doesn't.

Camoe · 18 Mar 2010 at 23:30

i have used the card before, was working fine on crysys 10 mins before..