Dodgy PCI-E slot?

Munky1080

Munky1080

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I bought the Powercolor 3870 late last month, and It failed to POST so I sent it back. I just recieved my new one, (great job OCUK RMA Dept by the way!) and again, same problem. I can't even enter my monitor's OSD. Is there a chance my PCI-E slot is borked? Otherwise, am I just unlucky enough to have gotten two bad cards?

Pulling my hair out here, as I have to wait until the end of the month to buy a new motherboard, and I don't know anyone with a PCI-E slot in their computer I can test it with...

I just want to turn everything up to high and start playing!!!
 
Still having troubles I see. What did OcUK say, that the card was fine? As I have a PCI-e hd38 series card working fine in this motherboard do you want to compare BIOS settings?
 
Yeah - I sent the old one back, and they sent me a new one...I'm not even sure that they tested the old one. Something I noticed on both cards was that the anti-static bag had a hole in it in roughly the same place, where the bracket with the DVI connections are pushed against the inside of the bag. Do you think I'm unlucky and got 2 dud cards?

Basically I upgraded my BIOS to 2.30. My PSU is fine; it's an Enermax Noisetaker 600w with dual 12v rail w/ 18A each. I reset the CMOS while the AGP card was plugged in and switched the Primary Display Adapter to PCI-Express in the BIOS. When I switch the graphics cards I just get a black screen when I power the PC up. I can't even enter my monitor's OSD.

There wasn't a jumper or something on the motherboard you had to change to get it to use PCI-E was there? I know Scouger has the same motherboard as we do, and he has the same PowerColor 3870 as I do and it seems to be working for him.

This is really frustrating. I'm going to buy a new motherboard at the end of the month anyways I think, but I would love to get this working...

I hear setting PCI downstream to disable helps with problems, but it seems like the people who needed that setting were ok at getting into windows anyways.
 
Yeah, I hear PCI-downstream disabled just helps with stability. If I were you, I'd take your PC into a local PC shop and ask them to try your card, or to try another card on your board. You'll get your answer that way for sure.
 
Strangely enough i seem to be having this problem with a s939 msi board and an X1800XT, turn on the computer and get no screen output. Take side off, wiggle the card about in the socket, power back up and up it comes. But it seems to be happening a lot more recently, last night it just randomly locked up after about 15 minutes several times, so i think the PCI-E slot can sometimes be dodgy. Need to borrow another gfx card just to check that it is that..
Hope you get this sorted.
 
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