- Dec 6, 2013
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Hey guys, registered to ask for support with my PC.
Today I got a new graphics card, ATI 5870. Went to swap out the card and boot back up, but it resulted in some scary booting up with artefacts until the screen eventually goes black, you can see in this video. https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcaax0gi8ptvejv/2013-12-06%2021.29.28.mp4
After this, it refuses to boot up and the LED is giving a "b2" error message, black screen and no bios access. If I take the GPU out and plug into my on board graphics it boots up fine, no problem, and I can then re-insert the graphics card to repeat the behaviour in the video.
My specs detailed below:
MOBO: ASRock Z68 Gen3 Extreme3
CPU: Intel i7 2600K
PSU: Antec vp550p 550W
Old GFX: Nvidia GTX 275
New GFX: Ati Radeon 5870
Things I've already tried:
I tried to unplug the HDDs to see if that had an effect, it didn't.
I upgraded my motherboard bios 3 times from original version -> 2.10 -> 2.20 -> 2.30, no effect. (except my pc now doesn't boot up, with a blue screen but w/e)
I pressed the glowing "reset" button on the motherboard both normally and for 10 seconds.
Tried both of my PCI-E slots to see if that might make a difference, it didn't.
I checked the specs requirements of my GPU and it says a 500W or greater PSU is required, and I have 550 so it should be ok. It can run my old GTX 275 and that takes more power than this 5870.
Does anyone have any idea what could be the issue, things I could try with it?
Thanks in advance,
Regards.
Kris
Today I got a new graphics card, ATI 5870. Went to swap out the card and boot back up, but it resulted in some scary booting up with artefacts until the screen eventually goes black, you can see in this video. https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcaax0gi8ptvejv/2013-12-06%2021.29.28.mp4
After this, it refuses to boot up and the LED is giving a "b2" error message, black screen and no bios access. If I take the GPU out and plug into my on board graphics it boots up fine, no problem, and I can then re-insert the graphics card to repeat the behaviour in the video.
My specs detailed below:
MOBO: ASRock Z68 Gen3 Extreme3
CPU: Intel i7 2600K
PSU: Antec vp550p 550W
Old GFX: Nvidia GTX 275
New GFX: Ati Radeon 5870
Things I've already tried:
I tried to unplug the HDDs to see if that had an effect, it didn't.
I upgraded my motherboard bios 3 times from original version -> 2.10 -> 2.20 -> 2.30, no effect. (except my pc now doesn't boot up, with a blue screen but w/e)
I pressed the glowing "reset" button on the motherboard both normally and for 10 seconds.
Tried both of my PCI-E slots to see if that might make a difference, it didn't.
I checked the specs requirements of my GPU and it says a 500W or greater PSU is required, and I have 550 so it should be ok. It can run my old GTX 275 and that takes more power than this 5870.
Does anyone have any idea what could be the issue, things I could try with it?
Thanks in advance,
Regards.
Kris
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