a couple of weeks ago, the lone 8800gtx in my pc decided that heaven was a real place to go to, and conveyed that message to me by displaying the BIOS boot screen with rather funky pixels all over.
I bought a Powercolor 5770 from OCUK, which was duly delivered in record time. Installed it, booted my Windows operating systems into safe mode to remove the nVidia display drivers, install the ATI drivers and all is well.......almost.
On power-on, or during any reboot, the PC insists on doing a reset exactly eight times, before the BIOS loads, and the PC continues starting up.
The motherboard is an ASUS Striker Extreme. CPU is a stock Intel Q6600.
Nothing is overclocked. The OCZ memory is underclocked at 800MHz (in order to prevent this motherboard cooking the modules).
The PSU isn't the best (a 700watt Jeantech job I had to grab from another firm sometime in the past.) but I'm not convinced that this is the culprit, as once the PC Posts and boots, everything runs fine, and it's been hammered with some very heavy gaming sessions without any crashes or hiccups.
Has anyone with a similar setup experienced this wierd booting feature before? I'm just a bit concerned that I'm allowing another fault to creep in over time if I don't sort it out. I've gone through the bios settings, there appeared to be only one nVidia GPU-specific setting, which I disabled, to no effect.
Thanks in advance.
I bought a Powercolor 5770 from OCUK, which was duly delivered in record time. Installed it, booted my Windows operating systems into safe mode to remove the nVidia display drivers, install the ATI drivers and all is well.......almost.
On power-on, or during any reboot, the PC insists on doing a reset exactly eight times, before the BIOS loads, and the PC continues starting up.
The motherboard is an ASUS Striker Extreme. CPU is a stock Intel Q6600.
Nothing is overclocked. The OCZ memory is underclocked at 800MHz (in order to prevent this motherboard cooking the modules).
The PSU isn't the best (a 700watt Jeantech job I had to grab from another firm sometime in the past.) but I'm not convinced that this is the culprit, as once the PC Posts and boots, everything runs fine, and it's been hammered with some very heavy gaming sessions without any crashes or hiccups.
Has anyone with a similar setup experienced this wierd booting feature before? I'm just a bit concerned that I'm allowing another fault to creep in over time if I don't sort it out. I've gone through the bios settings, there appeared to be only one nVidia GPU-specific setting, which I disabled, to no effect.
Thanks in advance.
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