nephews pc

scubes · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:49

hello my wee nephew just got his new asus geforce 550 ti graphic card when i try and install windows onto his pc it hangs and gives randow blue screens ive tried the following.

1 stick of ram at a time got further then usal still wont install just sorta hangs.
2 discoonected his floppy drive ( yes i no its old lol)
3 checked all cables and so on..

anything esle you guys suggust everything is at stock on his pc....

thanks for reading this...

regards colin.....

T345 · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:50

PSU not powerful enough?
Faulty GPU?

Sparx · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:50

What power supply is in the rig? Could well be a severe lack of amps if it is quite an old rig (you said he had a floppy drive)..

jamesfreddie · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:51

Could we have the full specs?

scubes · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:51

its antec 750 watt brand new... thanks for the quick replys

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T345 · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:52

the GPU must be faulty?

scubes · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:53

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-149-AN&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1088

here the psu here...

Sparx · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:53

Is the 6-pin connector plugged into the GPU?

jamesfreddie · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:53

scubes said:
its antec 750 watt brand new... thanks for the quick replys...

Could we have the full specs?

scubes · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:53

it was bought off this site and he only got it on wednesday

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jamesfreddie · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:53

Sparx said:
Is the 6-pin connector plugged into the GPU?

It wouldn't post with out it being connected.

T345 · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:53

the psu is fine, overkill actually, but the GPU must be damaged?
try it in another pc

scubes · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:55

yep no problems

xfx 780i sli motherboard
crucial ballistix rqam 3gig
audigy 2 zs sound card
dvdr writer
coolermaster nvidia editon case.
samsung 400 gig hard drive

Sparx · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:55

jamesfreddie said:
It wouldn't post with out it being connected.

Never personally tried it myself as I don't like to fry my components.. But I'm sure I have read a few threads were people have booted their rigs up and forgot to connect the 6-pin connector and boots up but just BSODs, hangs/freezes, etc..?

Scubes - What graphics card did he used to have previously? Could be a driver conflict issue, try boot into Safe Mode and completely wipe all traces of the previous ATI/NVIDIA drivers and then boot back into normal Windows and install the latest drivers fresh.

scubes · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:56

some if i can remeber right one or 2 of the bluescreens sayed something like irq not less than equal and the there pagefault something or other...

scubes · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:57

the power to the card is connected ..

scubes · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:58

i hope he doesnt have to rma the card cos hes been waiting for a while he saved the money up for this wee card..

T345 · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:58

plug it in, check if it works
EDIT: The plug on the PSU might be faulty

scubes · 2 Jun 2012 at 18:59

ill try the card in his bros pc when im up in his house again ..

Sparx · 2 Jun 2012 at 19:10

scubes said:
ill try the card in his bros pc when im up in his house again ..

Sparx said:
What graphics card did he used to have previously? Could be a driver conflict issue, try boot into Safe Mode and completely wipe all traces of the previous ATI/NVIDIA drivers and then boot back into normal Windows and install the latest drivers fresh.

Just incase you missed this post of mine ^^