Corsair 500w | R9 380

MatzeR

MatzeR

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Picked these up for the young brother in law- to be's Birthday.

Possibly naive of myself, I didn't bother to check requirements for the Graphics card before buying

Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK)
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HIS Radeon R9 380 IceQ X2 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H380QM2GD)

Rest of his system is an i3 2100, 8gb ram, 1 hdd, 1 cdrom.

It powers up whilst the hardware is installed, but wont post.

Tried a 650ti in that tower with the PSU, works fine, and tried his r9 380 in my rig, and that works fine.

Leaves me to think its the PSU that cant put out enough power.

Am i right?

Cheers.
 
Hi Matzer,

On paper, the PSU is fine to deal with those components.

What you say reminds me of something weird that happened in my last build. Everything powered up but I couldn't get it to POST either. Checked everything, including re-attaching the display cable (a HDMI) to the HDMI port I normally use. Thankfully, I then decided to try the second HDMI port on my monitor, and it did POST. For some reason, that video card did not like that HDMI port (I tried like twenty times with it to make sure), whereas my own video card has no issues with it.

So, before sending back the PSU - try different graphics ports on his monitor, and if necessary, try your monitor with his rig (not just the 380 but his entire rig).
 
Cheers for the reply pal.

Essentially it should have been tested on different monitors, But I shall give it a a go, Stranger things have happened.


The 380 didn't come with a DVI>VGA adapter in the box, Even tho it was listed on the box contents. So initially when I put it all together I tried booting with it still attached to the o/b port. With no success.

It should post without any connection to a display unit tho?
 
The only other thing I have just noticed. Is that the mobo is PCI-E 2.0 ( GA-H61M-S2PV )

The Card is 3.0.

It will post, with the card removed, Yet still hooked up to the PSU. Just not with it in the PCI-E slot
 
MatzeR said:
It should post without any connection to a display unit tho?
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Yes. If you can actually tell it's not posting through beeps, led codes or what have you, then different story.



MatzeR said:
The only other thing I have just noticed. Is that the mobo is PCI-E 2.0 ( GA-H61M-S2PV )

The Card is 3.0.

It will post, with the card removed, Yet still hooked up to the PSU. Just not with it in the PCI-E slot
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It shouldn't matter that it's PCI-E 2.0.

Have you tried updating the BIOS? That has sometimes helped with new cards.
 
That's my current task - Currently writing new bios to chip now.

Was also suggested by OcUK Tech. - I really never considered that. I'm outta touch.

Will let you know.

Cheers.



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Bios update worked.

Cheers for the help.
 
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