Asus 5870 prbs

[blueMonkey]

Hi all,

Just taken delivery of my new ASUS EAH5870.

One slight problem though, I installed it this afternoon and when I powered up all I got was one long beep followed by three short beeps and a no video message on the screen.

It was seated properly and both six pin cables were plugged in. The only culprit I can think of is the 450w corsair PSU. It just may not be powerful enough any more.

Can anyone think of another reason or is it time to take old yellow to the shed and give it both barrels!


Cheers in advance

The Monkey

 

[Raikiri]

It depends on the rest of your system, if it's not overly power hungry the PSU should be ok.

 

[coupe69]

How many amps does it have on the 12v rail(s)?

 

[blueMonkey]

Sorry should have posted spec.

CPU: E6600
Mem: 2*1 Gig ballistix
Hdd: 750 Gig spinpoint

Plus fan controller, creative sound card and wireless NIC.

Nothing fantastic, the psu wattage calculator rates the system at 445W with the new card in place.

The Monkey

 

[el Kuarlos]

450 if it is <actually> 450 is right on the theoretical limit. If it is less then you have issues. It could well be- if you are using the calc i am thinking of it even takes into account psu capacitor degredation. 1% and you are boned!

Perhaps try

Taking anything you dont need to boot out.
Downclock cpu as far as can go in bios.
Safe mode and see if it boots- if it does you can downclock GPU in CCC and see if the card will at least freewheel.

Seriously though, and dont mean to be mr retrospective. An asus 5850 would have given you a card that goes to within 6% of yours and you could have a daddy psu, with resell value of old psu... a corsair tx650 even

 

[blueMonkey]

@ Coupe69

I have no idea bud, I don't even have a multimeter to check it.

Thinking about it, the reason I'm upgrading was that when I was playing games on the old card (1950 pro) I used to get crashes all the time.

Could this have been a dodgy psu rather than a duff card?

Might have to take the psu into work for the sparky to look at.

 

[blueMonkey]

@ el Kuarlos

Cheers bud I will give that a try first thing tomorrow.

The Monkey

 

[el Kuarlos]

Dont stress if it doesnt work...like I say if the online calc says you have a 1% margin with a brand new psu...you are probably in trouble. Be careful. If you get buzzing or anything else, shutdown, unplug, leave it and don't tempt fate.

In my opinion, and I know I repeat myself, shop the 5870 back if you can, and use the credit for an msi/asus 5850 and good psu (whatever you like round 650watt mark.) You can clock the 5850 up to 5870 standards, suffer no practical performance loss, esp with your current setup as far as I can see and that pays for your psu. You should also look at 4gb of ram.

As a hollistic solution if you are evaluating your rig right now, post a general thread with specs, photos, usage and budget and see what you get back- won't hurt.

 

[hyperst]

Hi all,

Just taken delivery of my new ASUS EAH5870.

One slight problem though, I installed it this afternoon and when I powered up all I got was one long beep followed by three short beeps and a no video message on the screen.

It was seated properly and both six pin cables were plugged in. The only culprit I can think of is the 450w corsair PSU. It just may not be powerful enough any more.

Can anyone think of another reason or is it time to take old yellow to the shed and give it both barrels!


Cheers in advance

The Monkey

Should that be a 6 pin and a 8 pin connector, if you have only two 6 pins, I would think that is the problem.

Then again I might be talking rubbish lol as I thought all 5870's needed 1x6 and 1x8 but it seems it might not be the case, something to check anyway.

 

[Mr Paul]

amps on 12v rail please.

 

[kitch9]

Sorry should have posted spec.

CPU: E6600
Mem: 2*1 Gig ballistix
Hdd: 750 Gig spinpoint

Plus fan controller, creative sound card and wireless NIC.

Nothing fantastic, the psu wattage calculator rates the system at 445W with the new card in place.

The Monkey

O,O That rig will throttle the hell out of that video card.......In some games anyways.

 

[555BUK]

450W will be enough to boot up and display the BIOS splash. If the PSU was insufficient you will more likely experience crashes during gameplay.

If your mobo has a sencond PCI-E, try the card in that. Otherwise, you will need to test it within another system.