general issue with the rig

Jobey292 · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:16

hey ,

when i start my pc the gpu does not kick in straight away, but then about 3-4 sec later it boots with full fan speed and does not stop doing this (have a mentioned that it gives me no screen =/)

i have changed my cpu, motherboard, gpu and have tried with one stick of ram with my set, the only thing i have not tried is my psu, do you think it could be this ??? :mad:

stulid · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:19

system specs including model names, numbers would help.

Jobey292 · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:23

tis

160 gig hitachi
8800 ultra
q6600
800 mhz ram sorry no brand
Gigabyte GA-EP41-UD3L
modxstream 800watt

stulid · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:30

so you have no display at all?

have you tried pulling the pcie connector from the card and reinserting it.

Jobey292 · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:34

Yeh have tried that about 4 million times but no luck :/

roddypoddy · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:38

I had an xfx hd4890 that was d.o.a. did exactly the same thing,no display,just set off like a jet engine.

stulid · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:40

is there no display at all?

or is it only during the boot sequence, but comes on when windows loads.

can you hear the windows welcome tune?

try booting without the pcie connector, the graphics card I believe should scream a loud noise alerting you to not enough power.

try booting with just one ram stick at a time, alternate the sticks.

disconnect the harddrive and try booting, if the display suddenly works it should hang on the boot screen due to no disk drive.

Jobey292 · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:51

no welcome tune,
screams like me getting run over by an articulated lorry
tried the ram sticks too but no luck :/

ishoeyi · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:54

wild guess

graphics card is dead

i've had a few dead graphics card too... game too much....

stulid · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:56

try disconnect the drive.

also pull the power on the optical drive too, you won't need it

stulid · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:57

ishoeyi said:
wild guess

graphics card is dead

i've had a few dead graphics card too... game too much....

but he says he tried a gpu in the OP.

Jobey292 · 9 Sep 2010 at 18:57

i havnt got an optical drive,
and have tried the hard drive message
@ishoeyi have tried 3 graphics cards

stulid · 9 Sep 2010 at 19:02

time to borrow a psu.

stulid · 9 Sep 2010 at 19:10

and you have tried pulling out and sticking back in the 24pin and 8pin atx connector.

Jobey292 · 9 Sep 2010 at 19:12

yeh tried that too :/

RJC · 9 Sep 2010 at 19:14

Do you ever get to the point the pc boots, do have a multimeter to check the voltages on the psu.

ishoeyi · 9 Sep 2010 at 19:47

stulid said:
but he says he tried a gpu in the OP.

oh sorry
i better get to specsavers

ishoeyi · 9 Sep 2010 at 19:55

may be the ram?
see if it does the exact same thing without ram booting up

Jobey292 · 9 Sep 2010 at 21:31

have two sticks of Ram, have tried them both seperatley :/