Hello,
I have P5W DH Deluxe mobo and I had a problem with a graphic card (7900GS) a few years back. Lots of artifacts and was only getting worse. I decided to use my laptop back then and the desktop hasn't been used ever since (I dont know ~3-4 years?). My laptop MB crashed a few weeks ago and I decided to check my desktop PC, because I prefer big, old-fashioned pc rather than laptop. I drove to my friend with the pc and we used his 8800GTS with my motherboard/cpu/ram/hard drive set and everything seemed fine (windows xp booted all right). So I went back home, did some digging and decided to buy Asus HD7770 DirectCU. It's not brand new, but it has ~1,5-year warranty left. The guy who sold the card to me, was said to be fair. Some guy bought a graphic card from him and wrote that everything went fine. Besides it would be stupid to sell broken card which has warranty, wouldnt it? So I believe that the card is ok (Ill drive to the same friend tomorrow to check it 100%) BUT:
1) We both have mobos with PCIE 1.0, which MIGHT be the cause of the problem. So if the card wont start using my friends mobo (P5B non-deluxe), it might be the PCIE version problem, not faulty card. And I don't have anyone nearby who has at least PCIE 2.0 port.
2) I know that PCIE 3.0 card might not work on PCI 1.0 slot, but I found a guy or two on the Internet who claimed that they got Asus P5W DH Deluxe and Asus HD7770 and everything is fine. I even found a guy who has HD7870 and it's doing just fine. Maybe they got some newer revision of the mobo?
3) What about my PSU? I've already tried 2: Chieftec (I dont remember model, but it has ~380W and 14+15A on 12V line. Probably 500W the whole PSU) and Tagan with 30A+30A (together 48A) + 500W on 12V line, IT HAS TO BE ENOUGH! That card is not high-end, after all. And the Tagan is brand new. So it simply can't be the problem.
My spec:
E6600 with Scythe Mine ver.B
P5W Dh Deluxe newest bios
Asus HD7770 DirectCU
2*1GB PDP Patriot 800Mhz LLK
3x SATA + 1x IDE->SATA hard drives (Im using just boot drive for testing)
Audigy 4 (not plugged for now)
no dvd/floppy plugged
What else did I find?
1) I plugged broken 7900GS and then pc boots normally with lots of artifacts and the card is overheating DAMN FAST, I can barely remove it. But like I said earlier, the card is broken. But it shows that mobo is not totally broken and I flashed BIOS that way a few hours ago.
2) I used 3001 BIOS, nothing. I installed 3002 called beta, still nothing. No changes.
3) With HD7770 the mobo seems to work just fine. I mean signals are normal (1 beep like always, like it should be), but display just stays off.
4) Display turnes on SELDOM, but it does. When it happens, I see VERY SMALL booting stage (it's like display was scaled to 10%) and it's full of artifacts, sometimes I can't read anything and sometimes I can even proceed to BIOS and make some changes. I tried setting POWER SLOT in Advanced/Chipset to Heavier, didn't work at all.
5) Northbridge covered with a radiator connected to a heat-pipe is getting pretty hot in a short amount of time, BIOS showed about 48-50 C. In a stage of booting it seems to be too hot, but I'm not any expert.
What do you think I can do right now? I'm angry as hell. If it's the motherboard then it's pointless buying another LGA775 mobo, because it costs about 150-200PLN, used one (I'm from Poland) and Asrock H61M+G2020+4GB DDR3 costs 480PLN (it's 3 times more, but it would be a good setup for future modernisation while LGA775 is so old that only my new graphic card and tagan PSU would be useful if I decide to go for a newer Socket). And I don't want to spend so much money. That PC I have is still far better than laptop I've been using for about 3 years. I would just buy another 2GB of DDR2 which is extremely cheap right now (80PLN ~= 25 USD, if u wanna count 1USD = 3,18PLN)
Do you think that this is:
1) faulty mobo
2) PCIE 1.0 is not enough
3) broken card (I can use a warranty, I got a purchase evidence from the guy I bought the card)
Thanks in advance for some help,
you are my last hope
I have P5W DH Deluxe mobo and I had a problem with a graphic card (7900GS) a few years back. Lots of artifacts and was only getting worse. I decided to use my laptop back then and the desktop hasn't been used ever since (I dont know ~3-4 years?). My laptop MB crashed a few weeks ago and I decided to check my desktop PC, because I prefer big, old-fashioned pc rather than laptop. I drove to my friend with the pc and we used his 8800GTS with my motherboard/cpu/ram/hard drive set and everything seemed fine (windows xp booted all right). So I went back home, did some digging and decided to buy Asus HD7770 DirectCU. It's not brand new, but it has ~1,5-year warranty left. The guy who sold the card to me, was said to be fair. Some guy bought a graphic card from him and wrote that everything went fine. Besides it would be stupid to sell broken card which has warranty, wouldnt it? So I believe that the card is ok (Ill drive to the same friend tomorrow to check it 100%) BUT:
1) We both have mobos with PCIE 1.0, which MIGHT be the cause of the problem. So if the card wont start using my friends mobo (P5B non-deluxe), it might be the PCIE version problem, not faulty card. And I don't have anyone nearby who has at least PCIE 2.0 port.
2) I know that PCIE 3.0 card might not work on PCI 1.0 slot, but I found a guy or two on the Internet who claimed that they got Asus P5W DH Deluxe and Asus HD7770 and everything is fine. I even found a guy who has HD7870 and it's doing just fine. Maybe they got some newer revision of the mobo?
3) What about my PSU? I've already tried 2: Chieftec (I dont remember model, but it has ~380W and 14+15A on 12V line. Probably 500W the whole PSU) and Tagan with 30A+30A (together 48A) + 500W on 12V line, IT HAS TO BE ENOUGH! That card is not high-end, after all. And the Tagan is brand new. So it simply can't be the problem.
My spec:
E6600 with Scythe Mine ver.B
P5W Dh Deluxe newest bios
Asus HD7770 DirectCU
2*1GB PDP Patriot 800Mhz LLK
3x SATA + 1x IDE->SATA hard drives (Im using just boot drive for testing)
Audigy 4 (not plugged for now)
no dvd/floppy plugged
What else did I find?
1) I plugged broken 7900GS and then pc boots normally with lots of artifacts and the card is overheating DAMN FAST, I can barely remove it. But like I said earlier, the card is broken. But it shows that mobo is not totally broken and I flashed BIOS that way a few hours ago.
2) I used 3001 BIOS, nothing. I installed 3002 called beta, still nothing. No changes.
3) With HD7770 the mobo seems to work just fine. I mean signals are normal (1 beep like always, like it should be), but display just stays off.
4) Display turnes on SELDOM, but it does. When it happens, I see VERY SMALL booting stage (it's like display was scaled to 10%) and it's full of artifacts, sometimes I can't read anything and sometimes I can even proceed to BIOS and make some changes. I tried setting POWER SLOT in Advanced/Chipset to Heavier, didn't work at all.
5) Northbridge covered with a radiator connected to a heat-pipe is getting pretty hot in a short amount of time, BIOS showed about 48-50 C. In a stage of booting it seems to be too hot, but I'm not any expert.
What do you think I can do right now? I'm angry as hell. If it's the motherboard then it's pointless buying another LGA775 mobo, because it costs about 150-200PLN, used one (I'm from Poland) and Asrock H61M+G2020+4GB DDR3 costs 480PLN (it's 3 times more, but it would be a good setup for future modernisation while LGA775 is so old that only my new graphic card and tagan PSU would be useful if I decide to go for a newer Socket). And I don't want to spend so much money. That PC I have is still far better than laptop I've been using for about 3 years. I would just buy another 2GB of DDR2 which is extremely cheap right now (80PLN ~= 25 USD, if u wanna count 1USD = 3,18PLN)
Do you think that this is:
1) faulty mobo
2) PCIE 1.0 is not enough
3) broken card (I can use a warranty, I got a purchase evidence from the guy I bought the card)
Thanks in advance for some help,
you are my last hope
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