After graphic card installation, pc won't boot properly

nutstae

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Dear Community,

I recently purchased a brand new pc (http://www.frys.com/product/7717438) and it worked fine and it works fine.

However, after I installed my new asus gtx650 ti boost 2gb, everytime I turn on my pc, it would stop booting (nothing shows up on screen while its 1st booting, the monitor can't even detect the signal) and rebooting itself and then everything loads up properly on the 2nd booting.

It does this every time I turn my pc on after completely turning it off, and shows me an error message that there was something wrong with pc that if I want to send it to microsoft or not.

I can't figure out what is causing this, but I didn't have this happening before the graphic card. (I am not even sure If I had this issue right after the installation)
When I bought my graphic card, not sure if it's suppposed, but it didn't come with the 6pin power connector so I had to buy one from Fry's Electronics that has 2 6pin ending instead of one like normal power connector with two of 4 pin endings on the other end.

When I installed my graphic card, I connected the power pin like below

PC→Graphic Card→Last 6pin chain from the power connector→Two of other 4 pin endings, which one has 2 pins only and 3 pins only for the other→Two available 4 pin power connector from the main power of pc.

Everything is installed perfectly, and graphic cards' dual fans work fine and it has green light on it indicating that the power is being supplied well. (Nothing shows up if you don't install the card properly)

Can anybody help me with this? this issue is driving me insane!

If you need more info, please let me know!

Thank you
 
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The double reboot thing is done whenever new hardware is installed, it's the motherboards way of checking what's in there. You could try changing your CMOS battery and see if that helps, it could be that it's just not saving the information.

benjii

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The double reboot thing is done whenever new hardware is installed, it's the motherboards way of checking what's in there. You could try changing your CMOS battery and see if that helps, it could be that it's just not saving the information.
 
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nutstae

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Thank you for your response.
Can you teach me how to fix this?
I just don't like how it is a forced shut down and reboot that I get an error message every time.
Thank you