Well spotted. Could be the cause!
No, the photo is misleading. There is quite a gap there
Well spotted. Could be the cause!
Did you reset the CMOS when you put the card back in? Reason I ask is the bios might have a daft setting for the speed of the PCIe slot the gcard is sat in with it overclocked or something. Long shot but you never know lol. Would definitely cause instability if it was.
What's the model and wattage of that Lepa PSU, OP? Had a quick browse through the thread and can't seem to find it mentioned.
Can you do re-install of Windows?
Its worth a try.
One question,
The PC doesnt work with the graphics card in it and the monitor connected to the graphics card?
The PC does work without the graphics card fitted and the monitor connected to the motherboards video outputs?
When you did your Windows install, did it ever get to the desktop? or has it always crashed at the password screen?
Dont suppose you ever installed the Lucid software?
Do a fresh re-install with the card fitted and the monitor connected to it.
It does seem like a software / driver issue. Put the card in and connect the monitor, as stulid says, and then just pop the DVD in and go through the Windows 7 install process again, as you did before.
Make sure the BIOS boot order is the DVD drive first, put the disk in the drive and boot up, it will say "press any key to run from disk etc"
So press any key and wipe the boot drive and start a fresh install.
Also before this can you try getting into windows in "safe mode" as the PC currently is?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Start-your-computer-in-safe-mode
You need to:
- put the clean windows DVD in the DVD drive
- Enter the BIOS and ensure the DVD drive is set as the first priority boot drive
- save and exit from the BIOS
- wait for "press any key to boot from CD/DVD"
- press any key
- install windows as a custom install (not upgrade)
- format your existing primary HDD (unless there is important data on there - if there is, stop the install, retreieve the data and start again).
Im wondering if Lucid has cocked your install up TBH, its a bit of a juggling act as it is to get it to work.
Delete everything you see on the SSD, delete the partitions, the lot.
Take no prisoners.
Yes.
Put the asus disk in, but be a bit more selective with what you put on.
Intel chipset INF.
SATA etc
Audio driver
USB and ethernet driver.
Then stick the latest nvidia driver on for you operating system.