Problem booting..

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Well I took my PC apart today to update my watercooling and when I put it all back together it won't boot properly.

I gets past the first post screen then gets to the AHCI screen where it loads my harddrive and the screen just goes black and it won't go any further.

The post screen shows up but I can't get into the BIOS as it has to go past the AHCI screen to get to it.. I have tried resetting the BIOS but that hasn't done anything either..

My specs are.. Q6600, Gigabyte P35-DQ6, 4GB OCZ RAM and an Radeon HD2900XT.

Any help is appreciated!
Andy

EDIT: I managed to dig out a spare PCI graphics card to test and it boots fine so it looks like the problem is my graphics card.. Any ideas? It just gets to a certain point, the red light comes on and the screen cuts out.. It wouldn't be overheating would it?
 
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Have you checked the power to the card?

Have you placed in the correct slot. I know that some motherboards must have the graphics card in the primary slot (usaully the blue one) if only using a single card.

Just first thoughts.

What PSu do you have.. If you have added extra components are you sure it's upto the job? The PCI card will take less power than the PCI-e card you have.
 
All the components are the same, I just changed one of the waterblocks.. I'm using a Seasonic 500w which did the job before..

I've got both the PCI-E power connectors plugged into the 2900.

One thing I did notice was that on the new block I attached to my 2900 one of the screws holding it to the back plate wouldn't go in all the way so wasn't quite flush. Not sure if the 2900s are designed to cut out of they over heat but it didn't feel very hot.. Unless I have just borked my card! :(
 
Here is a picture of the bracket..

bracket.jpg


That screw on the left won't tighten past that, does that look like it will cause the GPU to overheat?
 
Well i brought my stock cooler into work today to try it and it works perfectly! Been playing TF2 on it flawlessly.. So it must be that bracket that is causing the issue.

Hopefully DTek or the company I bought the block off of will supply me with a new bracket without me having to drain the whole loop to replace the block!
 
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