Hi All,
I'm scratching my head with this one. I had some old bits that I thought I would throw together, and weirdly, I can't make them work.
I have a GTX 260 and a GTX 260 Black that won't give a signal at the BIOS when they are connected to a Core 2 Quad in an XFX 680i motherboard.
I started with a corsair 450w power supply, and then tried a corsair 750w. No signal.
If I put these two cards into another PC, they both work fine.
If I put a GTX 570 into the XFX 680i, then the card and both power supplies work and the pc boots fine.
I've tried with a VGA card alongside one of the GTX 260s, and it's like the GTX isn't in there - no hardware is detected by Windows.
I've been setting pcie as primary display in the Bios. Makes no difference.
So, the motherboard is fine, the cards are fine, the power supplies are fine, so there must be some sort of incompatibility with the 260s and the 680i motherboard perhaps. Well no, because back in the day, that was the original set up! 10 years ago, these components worked together!
Anyone got any idea what could be going on?
I'm well aware these are old parts, and I know the quick solution is to forget it and move on, but I'm now fascinated by the puzzle. I can't crack this one.
Thanks!
I'm scratching my head with this one. I had some old bits that I thought I would throw together, and weirdly, I can't make them work.
I have a GTX 260 and a GTX 260 Black that won't give a signal at the BIOS when they are connected to a Core 2 Quad in an XFX 680i motherboard.
I started with a corsair 450w power supply, and then tried a corsair 750w. No signal.
If I put these two cards into another PC, they both work fine.
If I put a GTX 570 into the XFX 680i, then the card and both power supplies work and the pc boots fine.
I've tried with a VGA card alongside one of the GTX 260s, and it's like the GTX isn't in there - no hardware is detected by Windows.
I've been setting pcie as primary display in the Bios. Makes no difference.
So, the motherboard is fine, the cards are fine, the power supplies are fine, so there must be some sort of incompatibility with the 260s and the 680i motherboard perhaps. Well no, because back in the day, that was the original set up! 10 years ago, these components worked together!
Anyone got any idea what could be going on?
I'm well aware these are old parts, and I know the quick solution is to forget it and move on, but I'm now fascinated by the puzzle. I can't crack this one.
Thanks!