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Faulty card?

Master Skooter

Master Skooter

Master Skooter

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I bought a used 8800GT a week ago to replace my sons aging X1800XT.

Upon installing the card and hitting the 'Go' button, PSU, chassis fans, tha HDD & the 8800GT all fire into life.....but the macine no longer POSTs. No signal to the screens, no beeps, no HDD doing stuff noises.

Tried to X1800XT again, all fine.

He did have an Enermax 350w PSU, so I thought it may be down to power. This morning I managed to source a 600w hoping that this would resolve the issue...but exactly the same symptoms. Tried the X1800XT, all fine.

I was wondering if anyone had anything else I could try please, or does the above symptoms mean a faulty card?

TIA
Skoot
 
You could try wiping the drivers with driver sweeper and try reinstalling them?

Chances are, the card is dead. Why not try another comp?
 
Check you have seated the card correctly and that you haven't shorted anything on the motherboard out, particularly near the expansion slot. If you can, also test the card in another computer.

If all else fails, try the old 'put it in the oven' trick.
 
Went to try it in my daughters PC, but it's a Dell and I couldn't see a single 3 pin fan connector on the board! (The 8800 has a Vortexx Neo)

Yeah tried reseating numerous times without joy. As soon as I pop his old ATI card in it fires up fine.
 
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Well that's a turn up for the books....the card works in my PC, and I'm running a lowly 480w Tagan PSU.

Would a driver conflict stop the machine from POSTing? Could it be his board the card doesn't like? It's an Asrock 4core-VSTA?
 
As I said in the email try clearing the cmos by removing the battery for 5-10 mins. I think some motherboards have a button that does the job :)

Just did a quick google and it appears that some people had some issues using the 8800gt in this board. That was back at release though so perhaps a bios update has solved that problem?
 
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synixx said:
As I said in the email try clearing the cmos by removing the battery for 5-10 mins. I think some motherboards have a button that does the job :)

Just did a quick google and it appears that some people had some issues using the 8800gt in this board. That was back at release though so perhaps a bios update has solved that problem?
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Good point, I misread the OP. Thought it suddenly stopped working after a week :p OP, a lot of 775 era boards had issues with the 8800, mine did the same as yours sitting on a Via P4M900 chipset - fans full blast but no one home.

EDIT: Yeah, your board has the Via PT880, probably the cause. http://forums.ocworkbench.com/showthread.php?t=68636 is your only fix really, aside from new board.
 
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Nice find Synixx, don't suppose you know who manufactured the card?

I've had a quick scout on the net, all the threads seems to be years old, any links to Gen1 bios are dead. I'll keep looking but if anyone can find one please shout.

Ta :)
 
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Looking on the ASRock website, it states that the board supports 8800GTS, GTX & Ultras?

[Edit: Just read that the 8800GT uses a different core :(

I'll contact their technical support to see what they suggest.

[Edit: No I won't, they're all on holiday 11th through to the 19th! >.<

Guess I'll need to find a card that will work and stick the 8800 on the bay...
 
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If I remember correctly ati pci-e gen 2 cards worked fine on these boards it was just nvidias cards that had issues. I ran a 3850 on a board with a dodgey VIA chipset and it worked fine. Your 4850 would proably run fine and you could use it as an excuse to upgrade :P

If you want you can return it to me and i'll refund you rather than sticking it on the bay (obviously it would have to be minus postage and you'd have to pay return postage so perhaps it would be better to just source a new board).
 
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Hiya mate, the card works fine so I'd not expect a refund - cheers for offering though :)

I've already stuck a wanted ad in trade, I'll keep an eye on the for sale forum see whats on offer. Like you say I could always give him my 4850 and treat myself ;)

What's the next step up the video card ladder after a 4850?
 
The 5850 is really worth it if you can, they're much faster than the 5830 or 5770. Failing that the 5770's would appear to be in stock, though this will still set you back over £80, good overclockers thankfully.
 
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