New XFX 6850 - no display.

[solado]

Greetings to everyone here on the forums.

I recently purchiced an XFX 6850, when installing this card the fans run at maximum and there is no display / Post from the computer (no beep). I have gotten a display out of the card twice. One i actualy got into windows, the second time it froze in the bios.

The strange part is that i had another ATI card that did the exact same thing think it was 5700 series. So im not sure if its the motherboard its self which is playing up because i put my old GTX 260 back in and it worked first time.

Could this be a conflict with the Nforce chipset on my motherboard ? I have updated the bios to the latest release from the Asus website and still no joy.

My specs are:
700W Ocz PSU
AMD phenom 9950
Asus M3N-HD (Nforce chipset)
4 GB DDR2 dominator running at 1066 Mhz

 

[welshdragon]

Have you plugged the pcie power cable into the card?

Have you removed the nvidia drivers as there may be a conflict?

Also, may be worth checking the pcie slot is compatable and has the right speed set.

Also, if you board has onboard grx are they disabled? It may be defaulting to that, change the priority in bios to pcie.

If I am looking at the right board it has dual pcie? Try the other pcie lane.

 

[solado]

Yea plugged the PCI-E power cable in, made sure it was secure.

I have uninstalled the nvidia drivers from device manager than ran driver sweeper (but this shouldn't stop the display not working during post).

PCI-E 2.0 i checked the motherboard manual and online specifications.

No on board graphics.

Tried both PCI-E lanes; same with the fan running at 100% and no display.

This is confusing me to no end as to why its not working

 

[Orcvader]

Have you tried a CMOS reset?

 

[solado]

Yup, even removed my raid

 

[solado]

Anymore ideas on what the problem could be ?

Should i RMA the card ?

 

[LiamJ]

Being a Nforce chipset, I would think that the most likely source is the motherboard. especially as you say you've had problems with previous ATI cards. Unfortunately, the motherboard is the most inconvenient to test, and your best to just make sure that it's nothing else first.

Is there another system in which you can test the new card?

 

[-Aura-]

Just had a quick butchers on Google, there is a guy on another forum who was told by XFX that the 5xxx series had problems with certain nforce chipsets (prior ATi cards were fine however) and some mainboard manufacturers had issued an updated bios and/or chipset drivers which may or may not sort the problem :\

Your first stop: http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

PS, Pls don't shoot the messenger!