PSU issues?

tophee · 12 May 2008 at 17:51

Hi,

There seems to be a few"Booting Issues" today, so I'll go for a different tack.

Just upgraded my rig!

Very happy with the result, however I have yet to OC it. Reason being I'm having an annoying little problem with booting up that I want to sort first.

The symptoms are this:

I press the power button and it appears to begin to do something. Then switches off. I press the power button again and it seems to get a bit further, however then does nothing - no hdd activity or anything. Third time: Boots into windows and all seems fine.

Rig details:
Q6600, Abit IX38 QuadGT mobo, 2g Corsair ram, ATI 3850, PSU Tagan 480w. The manual suggests a min of a 400w psu for a single card install and min 500w for crossfire setup.

So I should be in the clear?

I need to check the boot codes on the mobo, but as I'm up and running atm I'm inclined to leave it for a few mins (mostly to post this).

Regards Chris

tophee · 12 May 2008 at 18:55

Solve my own problem... it turns out it was nothing to do with PSU, more the graphics card. The post code was 26. Here is what the abit website had to say:

26 1. If Early_Init_Onboard_Generator is not defined Onboard clockgenerator initialization. Disable respective clock resource to empty PCI & DIMM slots.2. Init onboard PWM3. Init onboard H/W monitor devices 00->C1->C3-> Stop at 26 BGA or Graphic card errors Change graphic cards or unplug card and plug card back in again

So, went into the BIOS and changed the intial display option to PCIx. Easy

Blackhawk47 · 12 May 2008 at 19:09

so its basically using onboard graphics instead . glad you solved anyway

gt_junkie · 12 May 2008 at 19:28

Was gonna say that your PSU should have been fine.

I run my GX2, overclocked C2D and watercooling off a fanless 550 watt Yesico PSU with no problems whatsoever. Nvidia recomends a minimum of a 600watt PSU for this graphics card - think it's aimed more at people with cheaper PSU's as it attempts to guarantee a certain amount of performance.

Glad you got it sorted though matey. Have fun!

gt

tophee · 12 May 2008 at 21:01

Yeah thanks. Am enjoying it. Now to OC the be-jesus out of it.

Just to clarify tho: it wasn't onboard graphics, the board was trying to look for a pci slot card first, and I had to tell it to stop being silly, and go with the pci-express card.