I bought a Powercolour 5850 and it's been working fine since I purchased it. For the last two mornings it's not the machine has not wanted to boot. The graphics card fan speed speeds up to 100% with no output to the monitor. Only a power down and restart gets it going again.

Specs are:

Asus p5q motheboard (with E8500)
Powerclolour 5850 G/card
Be quiet Darkpower 850W Power supply

I've never had any problems with the machine before this, and once it has booted the first time it's fine for the rest of the day with no instability.

I've checked for bios updates but Asus asn't released any for a few months.

I also, before going to bed last night checked the PCI frequency and I had set it to 101 previously, so I changed it to 100 but it made no difference this morning as I still have the cold boot issue.

Any suggestions as to what I could do to fix it?

Many thanks.

Seems a lot of these 5800 series cards are going down...

Martini1991 said:

Seems a lot of these 5800 series cards are going down...

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Yeah what i said, i can't believe we have yet another one with this problem, ive got a one coming today as well lol, tell you, im not very confident.

Yeah, a bit worrying. But hey, warranty's are there for a reason

LoadsaMoney said:

Yeah what i said, i can't believe we have yet another one with this problem, ive got a one coming today as well lol, tell you, im not very confident.

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I flashed my 5870 and overvolted and everything, my warranty's as good as gone..=/

Martini1991 said:

I flashed my 5870 and overvolted and everything, my warranty's as good as gone..=/

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Except you can flash back to your old bios and nobody would ever know

Greebo said:

Except you can flash back to your old bios and nobody would ever know

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If it dies before then?

If it's dead, how will they know

WELL IM WELL ****** OFF HERE, JUST TURNED UP, ITS A POXY LG DVD WRITER, SAID TO THE GUY, NO WAY YOU CAN OPEN THE BOX JUST SO I CAN CHECK THAT THE CARDS NOT BEEN UT IN A DIFF BOX, SAYS CAN'T SO ITS GONE BACK. IM ******* FUMING HERE

Oh dear, just phoned them up, seems like it may have been my card afterall, they said they sometimes put them in differnt boxes (recycling), so going to check with the warehouse to see if that is the case, then try to get the driver to re-deliver, and let me know.

Just phoned while i was typing this, thats whats happened, was my card, gona try and get it back to me, if not be Monday.

I've had that before as well. Ocuk like to recycle. I had a box turn up saying it was 20 x 2gb 9200 blades when in fact it was a mouse.

Bad luck on rejecting it.

I knew your 5850 delivery was doomed.

Yeah so did i, still could've been a good omen with the amount that are borked, or borking.

I only realised after he'd gone, that i should have signed for it and checked, as i could have always sent it back if it was wrong, but when yer on the spot like that, always happens, comes to you after, i just saw the big dvd writer box and thought wtf, thats not a gfx card, still he was early (about quarter to 11), and it was only about 20 minutes later they phoned me back to say they'll get onto the driver, see if he can re-deliver, if not be Monday, so theres a chance today i guess, i just want to know if ive got a borked one, as im not confident at all.

Im expecting the black screen 100% fan straight off, or if not, im gona be going to switch it on all the time thinking, is this the time i get the switch on ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, restart ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, restart, ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR restart, ERRRRRRRRRRRRR restart....., yay we boot, as theres loads doing it now, and from all brands.

Still as well i guess, they could have at least crossed the dvd writer stuff out or something, or stuck another label on it saying it was my card.

Well ill be fitting her shortly, he came back with it about half 2.

hi
loadsa dont be so negative , my saphy is running great . it will be fine .

just a side note when i ran furmark for 30 mins with fan on 30% it got up to 90 degs so i would slap a bit more fan speed when heavy gaming and i dont mean bejewelled lol

cheers

muppet said:

hi

just a side note when i ran furmark for 30 mins with fan on 30% it got up to 90 degs so i would slap a bit more fan speed when heavy gaming and i dont mean bejewelled lol

cheers

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Minesweeper isn't much more demanding

ANyway no games stress the cards as much as furmark so only need to up the fan in furmark.

So is it DOA?

hominid said:

I bought a Powercolour 5850 and it's been working fine since I purchased it. For the last two mornings it's not the machine has not wanted to boot. The graphics card fan speed speeds up to 100% with no output to the monitor. Only a power down and restart gets it going again.

Specs are:

Asus p5q motheboard (with E8500)
Powerclolour 5850 G/card
Be quiet Darkpower 850W Power supply

I've never had any problems with the machine before this, and once it has booted the first time it's fine for the rest of the day with no instability.

I've checked for bios updates but Asus asn't released any for a few months.

I also, before going to bed last night checked the PCI frequency and I had set it to 101 previously, so I changed it to 100 but it made no difference this morning as I still have the cold boot issue.

Any suggestions as to what I could do to fix it?

Many thanks.

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Hi hominid,

I too have the same issue, but I have to power cycle about 8 or 9 times before it works, but once it works it's perfectly fine until I power off again, it even survives reboots, the problem only occurs when I power off completely.

I suspect it's an Asus mobo issue, as I have a P5N-E SLI, and looking on the intraweb many Asus users are experiencing the same issue.

On a good note, just had mine overclocked to 850mhz core on default vcore, and it ran furmark quite happily for some time. Temp were 86c-88c with auto fan, which maxed out at 44%.

All in all I'm quite happy to live with the boot issue as I'm gonna be upgrading to an i5/7 soon anyway (E6420 @ 3.2ghz currently).

Regards

Spec

LoadsaMoney said:

Yeah what i said, i can't believe we have yet another one with this problem, ive got a one coming today as well lol, tell you, im not very confident.

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mines running ok since yesterday touch wood!

Spec-Chum said:

I suspect it's an Asus mobo issue, as I have a P5N-E SLI, and looking on the intraweb many Asus users are experiencing the same issue.

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I used to have that board last summer, its not that great with new hardware, but i was using a q6600 and the board hated it.

Mr Paul said:

So is it DOA?

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Sharp see, gona be fitting it now as ive been busy, but i see we have yet another above doing it, so im expecting to have to RMA it.

The only thing that I have experienced is the fan speeding up to 100% for 5 seconds on bootup occasionally just before the login screen but I think my Vista install is messed up :/ Oh well Win7 will be through the door soon