Fear and Loathing in my computer case
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Akashio
- Joined: Sun Nov 25, 2001 6:46 pm
Fear and Loathing in my computer case
So I just bought the new Radeon x1900xt 512mb ram video card, right? I installed it. And I installed the drivers. I was curious and immediately opened AtiTool. For some reason, AtiTool read both my core and mem as 0.0 mHz. I thought "huh?" and I clicked Find Max Core to see if that would fix it. Immediately the screen turned a digital gray. I was forced to shut down my computer. Ever since then, it has not booted up. The power will turn on and the green motherboard light shows up, but nothing shows up on the screen at all. I tried switching videocards, but that didn't help. So could it be my motherboard that fried? The only clue I have is that on startup the motherboard doesn't make that reassuring beep after 2 secs.
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Kionon
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Yeah, well, there are a few things at play here that could be a possibility.
1) You fried your mobo, your cpu, or both.
It's happened to me, and it sucks.
2) You merely tripped a wire, and you'll need to find it.
This is more likely what happened. It's happened to me, so here's what I suggest, assuming you built the computer and know what you're doing. Unplug every wire that and one by one plug them back in (with the computer off, unplugged, yourself grounded etc, etc). The try to boot up. If this is the issue, then it should boot up fine, detect the card, and it will be like nothing ever happened.
3) Your RAM is funky.
Again, this may be a situation where you just need to pull out the ram, blow on it, and readjust it. This has also happened to me, and sometimes issues the same results you are describing.
Yeah, well, there are a few things at play here that could be a possibility.
1) You fried your mobo, your cpu, or both.
It's happened to me, and it sucks.
2) You merely tripped a wire, and you'll need to find it.
This is more likely what happened. It's happened to me, so here's what I suggest, assuming you built the computer and know what you're doing. Unplug every wire that and one by one plug them back in (with the computer off, unplugged, yourself grounded etc, etc). The try to boot up. If this is the issue, then it should boot up fine, detect the card, and it will be like nothing ever happened.
3) Your RAM is funky.
Again, this may be a situation where you just need to pull out the ram, blow on it, and readjust it. This has also happened to me, and sometimes issues the same results you are describing.
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oldwrench
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Could also be a power supply issue, If the new vid card overloaded the PS it could have failed. Some of those cards take huge amounts of power. ATI manual says 450 watt minimun PS. Also did you plug in the six pin power supply cable to the video card? If you don't the motherboard supply can't handle the watts needed for the card.
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Akashio
- Joined: Sun Nov 25, 2001 6:46 pm
My PSU is a 680W and yes I did connect the 6-pin cable. Otherwise the mobo would be beeping all over the place.oldwrench wrote:Could also be a power supply issue, If the new vid card overloaded the PS it could have failed. Some of those cards take huge amounts of power. ATI manual says 450 watt minimun PS. Also did you plug in the six pin power supply cable to the video card? If you don't the motherboard supply can't handle the watts needed for the card.
