The continuing saga of Pun's bad luck with Video Cards.

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:18 am

Well, I received my third BFG FX5900 in the mail yesterday. Some of you who have read my other post may already know that I was experiencing strange blue vertical lines at startup and in the windows loading screen, followed by the computer autorebooting after less than a minute in Windows.

This time I went directly to BFG for a replacement, rather than the retailer. So, I removed the drivers through, add/remove programs, went into the device manager and uninstalled the Ti4600 I was using at the time, shut the computer down and did the card swap.

Upon firing up the computer, no blue lines! I was like "Yes! It works! It works!" I proceeded to install the latest Nvidia drivers and rebooted. This time, no blue lines, but nothing else either. just a black screen. The mobo was powered up and all the fans were running, but just a black screen on the display. I am not certian if Windows actually loaded and the card just wasn't sending video signal or the machine was hung. I did notice the HDD activity light was on for a period of time, but I'm not sure if this actually indicates that Windows booted or not.

So, I thought, "hmm, that's strange. Let me try to power the comuter down and do a cold restart." I did that and it worked. I proceeded to tweak the driver settings and also ran D3 and UT2K4. Both ran and looked beautiful.

After about 20 minutes of gaming, I decided to try the warm restart again. Once again, nothing but a black screen. Powered down for a cold restart again and it fired up once again just fine.

I tried a few more times to get the machine to warm restart. After a couple of tries, it wouldnt even start when powered down completely. At that time I yanked the 5900 and put the Ti back in. Worked perfectly.

It seems to me that I wasn't getting the short beep from my mobo on warm restart, but when I powered down the machine and did a cold restart, the mobo would beep. Also, when this happens, the monitor goes active for a short time immediately after restart but then goes into standby.

I'm running a Fortron 420 PSU. There's only one CD drive and one HD in the machine at the moment. No PCI cards are in the machine. I'm running the onblard LAN and Sound on the Abit NF7-S v2.0. So yeah, I feel the 420 watt Fortron should be more than enough.

What could be causing this to happen? Voltage? Another bad card? Some sort of Bios setting? Corrupted Bios? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I'm at my wit's end with this crap.

Thanks!

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:01 pm

Thats really odd....

Ok, put the 5900 back in and see if you can get it to POST. Go directly into your BIOS and check your voltages. Compare them to what you're supposed to get and report back.

Did you plug in the molex connector into the card?

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:22 pm

Yes, and the voltages look good.

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 1:00 pm

Unplug the power cord, turn PSU OFF, push power button on case to discharge caps, reset CMOS, place CMOS to normal, plug in cord, switch on PSU, boot to bios, if still not working they say to try up to 3 times (in manual) as well as removing CMOS battery.

Under agp settings: disable fast rewrites, still in BIOS look for PnP/PCI Configurations Menu, toggle Force Update ESCD to Enabled, reboot.

Hope this helps, if not go here and update the bios, looks like they have very recent updates.

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/man ... =1&model=6

Hope this helps.

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 8:26 am

Well, I guess 4 is a charm. Got the 4th card from BFG yesterday and it runs like butter. 3 bad cards in a row; two from the retailer, one from BFG. Imagine that...

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:57 am

Heh, I wouldnt buy cards from that supplier again.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 11:16 am

aint that the truth. id grab a PNY or a LeadTek

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:46 pm

he said supplier, dumba$$, not manufacturer.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:53 pm

Well you did get one bad one from the manufacturer correct? He's not incorrect in suggesting looking at other manufacturers instead of BFG.

And dollar signs are ugly; call him Dumbace if you have to.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 5:38 am

punisher wrote:he said supplier, dumba$$, not manufacturer.

and does naming to makers specifically point to, getting from a certain SUPPLIER???

no it doesnt so stop assuming

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:02 am

Uhhh... I said supplier, as in reseller, as in the people you buy the card from but they dont make it. They assumed correctly because they understand english.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:39 am

I really think we should just ban ace from the tech board...he lowers the IQ of everyone here just by his presence...

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 8:42 pm

and why dont you just STFU. they did assume one thing when i meant another so stop throwing crap in my mouth.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 6:53 am

No, you pathetic moron. What happens is you change your tune when someone points out your idiocy...

All I know is that a village somewhere is missing it's idiot. Why don't you go home Ace.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:05 am

and you wonder why i fire shiz at you like this. your the one always bringing it up.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:45 am

OMFG STFU!

Just shut up!

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:35 pm

man Pun that really sucks... you should stop trying to save a coin or two and buy a real card! j/k

goes one more time just go NV40!

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Sidenote : And I felt like it was only me who thought Ace was the Village Idiot!

He will prove otherwise later in this thread

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:49 pm

oh shutup bubblelou........im waiting for the NV40 aswell