Stopped booting with 7950 GPU

Is the computer posting and beeping and then starting to boot windows or does nothing happen at all? try the card in another pc if possible it could be faulty.

try clearing the cmos aswell and see if it makes a difference.

if you have a friend with an adequate power supply i would check it with theirs in your normal system just to rule out the power supply, it could be the psu has suddenly developed a fault and cant supply enough power to the gpu and the motherboard.

2X150 Watt 8-pin PCI Express power connector is required
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1157&pid=1841&psn=&lid=1&leg=0#

As per the spec sheet of the Kingwin PSU, it only has 1 x 8 pin PCIe connector and 1 x 6 pin Pcie connector.
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=168

Your video card requires 2 x 8 pin connectors, how did you manage that?

Thanks for the info, I wasn't sure which one you had.
Are both connectors connected to the video card?

You had 3 monitors connected, were you gaming or doing some other deed? What were you doing when the system crashed?

How do you "force" the bios to boot from the video card? Isn't there an option to set the Primary video display to PEG1?
Are you actually using the first PCIe slot?

Without drivers, you are using VGA Safe mode, although the display is going through the video card, the system is using the onboard gpu for its resources.

"So if the video card works in another computer that says it is good correct?"
Well, it is operational, it gives a display however, you need the drivers and the display utility, that are comaptible with your OS.
Not sure about IGPU, must a be new addition to the bios.

You can't use both onboard and a video card, it's either one or the other unless that, too, is a new addition. You can't have a cable with the onbaord and another cable for the video card, to switch between the two, you only get one or the other unless the IGPU enables that option, I'll have to go search.... In the mean time, if you enable the highest amount of vram for the onboard video out, say 1gb, that will be deducted from your available ram volume ... still looking ...

I think I'v found something on the manufacturer site (sorry, this is new stuff for me) -

"LucidLogix® Virtu - Universal Switchable Graphics Technology
LucidLogix® Virtu is designed for the Intel® Sandy Bridge platform's powerful integrated graphics. Its GPU virtualization dynamically assigns tasks to the best available graphics resources based on power, performance and system load on Windows® 7 based PCs. It allows users to fully utilize the unique capabilities of advanced Sandy Bridge multimedia features alongside the high end 3D rendering performance provided by installed graphics cards. When no discrete graphics are needed, the graphics card is put in idle mode to lower utilization, heat, fan speed and power draw down to near zero, making the system more environmentally-friendly. For users with diverse needs, LucidLogix® Virtu GPU virtualization provides great flexibility and efficiency. "

So basically you need to install the "LucidLogix® Virtu " utility that came with your motherobard or download it from Gigabyte.
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8Z68V_PROGEN3/

Yes, I'm writing this on the fly and making amendments as I go so you can see that I'm actually researching my own ideas.

Just a side note, your bios version is BIOS version 3603, how did you manage that? The cpu list states only 0301.
The Intel Pentium series cpu are the only ones with the bios version 3603.
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8Z68V_PROGEN3/#support_CPU

However, the GO option for your cpu does infer the 3603 as suitable but it does seem rather odd that the Intel Pentium CPU had it first, your cpu is much more advanced, it's just doesn't seem right.
http://www.asus.com/support/Cpu/LatestBios.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=1&m=P8Z68-V%20PRO/GEN3&cpu=Core%20i5-2500%20(3.3G%2CL3%3A6M%2CiGPU%2C4C%2Crev.D2)&pcb=ALL&sincebios=0301&memo=

If you're not having problems with the bios then forget what I just said in this side note.

Back to the IGPU - The only thing that I can think of is that you need to download the latest Intel Drivers for the motherboard, considering the bios update.
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8Z68V_PROGEN3/#support_Download_30

I'll get back to you the IGPU, perhaps someone else could enlighten us in this thread?

Back in ye olde days, Intel and AMD were rivals and their motherboards were different chipsets. They still are in most cases but Gigabyte (AMD-based) and Asus (Intel-based) do have chipsets of the other manufacturer occasionally, trying to be more compatible with each others video cards.
Intel and Nvidia went hand in hand while Amd and Ati went hand in hand.

Your Asus motherboard is Intel-based. Your video card is AMD chipset. If the Nvidia video card works in your motherboard then it could be that your motherboard is Intell/Nvidia preferred (but not exactly exclusively).

"So i did find an old NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GPU and plugged it into the same PCIE 16x slot and computer boots up fine."
It's all rather vague but you don't see AMD graphics cards in Asus (or Intel) motherboards on PC review sites, only Nvidia but you often see Nvidia graphic cards used on AMD motherboards.

Your motherboard supports both - NVIDIA® Quad-GPU SLI™ Technology & AMD Quad-GPU CrossFireX™ Technology, however, Quad-GPU is using two video cards bridged together. It would be interesting to see if two AMD video cards would actually work on this motherboard. hmmm...

I'm stll not being very helpful, sorry about that. I do like to add my extra unwanted details, it makes for good references later on.


As best as I can understand, the LucidLogix IGPU uses the video cards power to boost performance, you don't actually use both the IGPU and the video card as separate display output. When you boot up, the onboard video out would probably be the primary video out option.

http://www.lucidlogix.com/product-virtu-gpu.html

As to why the AMD video card will not post is probably the quirkiness of Intel and Asus.