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Installing 4870 right now few problems!

danceforfreedom

danceforfreedom

danceforfreedom

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Installing a Radeon 4870 right now and bumping into a few problems. After install takes twice as long to get signal on moniter, to the point where you can press del to enter bios, writing all slightly blurry, then there's two strips down the centre at the XP loading screen, where a lot of the pixels are white. After XP loading screen when desktop would normally load the screen goes black and theres white squares all over the screen!

I have no idea why have to use internal GPU to write this! Any help would be appreciated. Swapped this 4870 for a 5670 with a friend as he wanted DX11 now playing games on internal GPU which is ****e!

Rest of setup is as follows:

OCZ 600w Stealth Stream
Biostar GF8200e Mobo
AMD Athlon2 x 4 2.8ghz
2 GB DDR2 Ram
CDR/DVD Combi
Sata Harddrive

Please help!
 
Yeah, it was set to external PCIe first, Above happens when I have moniter connected to 4870 and with this setting no display signal from iGPU. Right now its connected to internal GPU, with that selected as first option in bios just while I figure this out!
 
Sounds like the card is broken IMHO. Lines on the screen before windows and screen artifacts usually indicates this.
 
Based on the fact that this issue seems to be happening even at BIOS level, I'd say it has to be a bios setting or a hardware fault.

Is there an option to completely disable the on board VGA rather than just setting which has priority? Would usually be under the integrated hardware section of the BIOS if it has one.

I'd reseat the card (use some clean air to blow out the slot as well), double check all the card power connectors are in firmly and theres no dodgy conections or anything. I suppose theoretically it could be a power supply issue? I'm only guessing here, but I wouldn't be suprised if the 4870 drew a fair lump more power than the 5670. Saying that though, 600watt should be ample unless your PSU is not well? I run an overclocked i7, a 4870x2 and loads of drives on only 700watts quite happily, so theoretically yours should fine.

Good luck!

E-I
 
yeah I can disable on board video completely. Im beginnig to think It is a dodgy card. Heat from it in idle is extreme altho I hard these cards can be. PSU is fine I think, runs like a beaut. Will try from start like evil-i says will post feedback. Just unistalled all catalyst and booted in safe mode and ran driver sweeper. Will start from scratch...
 
This is what I can get it to so far (and how im working!)

desktop.JPG
 
dodgy card thb...your matey done you over or you broke it in transit.....maybe your vga cable broke? sounds stupid but my cable dvi cable broke 2 days after i swapped monitors and i though its the monitor
 
It sounds a wee bit dodgy to me... he wanted a 5670 for DX11, yet it's a fairly carp card that can barely run DX11 features and more of a sidegrade than anything. Dunno though, might just be me.
 
VGA cable fine, moniter works fine from the Internal GPU Output.

The first try, which was black screen loads of white dots, then taking out Catalyst and Drivers, Running Driver Sweeper, Taking out card, resetting after blow out of slot, reinstalling Catalyst the picture above is best I can get.

Time to have a go at matey I think, and back to the internal Gforce 8200 iGPu with Starcraft 2 all on minumum at 1024x768 for a week. Sweet.
 
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