- Mar 30, 2014
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Was having problems with a recent ebay purchase. GPU would crash, both screens would have lots of lines and games would freeze. Also windows would flicker. To determine if it was the GPU, I got one from a friend and installed the drivers for it (forgetting to uninstall the old drivers for the other GPU)
Radeon HD 5870
MSI p43-c51 7519 ver 2.1
OCZ 600W MXSP
Worked ok besides issues while playing games. Decided to stress test and saw that the temps rose very high (90C), so I created a fan curve. Solved the problem for a bit but then it came up again so I tried getting a new GPU to work. Sapphire Vapor-X HD4890
All cables have been secured, tried resetting bios and CMOS, Everything is plugged in. Tried swapping RAM.
With the Radeon card it tries to boot but doesn't get past POST. No beeps, not sure if there is a speaker or not. Got it to boot once but when I connected my other monitor and closed the case up it stopped working again.
Got a code 0037 when it tried to boot before, there's nothing in the manual about it.
Now all I get is no signal. I know it tries to boot because I have to hold the power button down for a few seconds to get it to turn off.
With the Sapphire card, it acts like it's not recognized and still no signal. One press of the power button and it turns off immediately.
All fans are spinning, no beeps, no windows sounds. Tried with DVI and Display Port cables on different monitors that all previously worked.
Thought it might be an issue with the extra drivers installed so I disconnected the HDD to try to get it into bios, but nothing.
I don't have a breadboard or postcard.
Besides trying a different PSU/GPU, what other options do I have?
Like I said, it booted up once, into Windows, and everything looked great. I think it's a bad GPU but then why does the other one not work?
I think the GPU was overclocked as it had extra fans on the rear cutout panels, so maybe it fried something?
Thanks
Radeon HD 5870
MSI p43-c51 7519 ver 2.1
OCZ 600W MXSP
Worked ok besides issues while playing games. Decided to stress test and saw that the temps rose very high (90C), so I created a fan curve. Solved the problem for a bit but then it came up again so I tried getting a new GPU to work. Sapphire Vapor-X HD4890
All cables have been secured, tried resetting bios and CMOS, Everything is plugged in. Tried swapping RAM.
With the Radeon card it tries to boot but doesn't get past POST. No beeps, not sure if there is a speaker or not. Got it to boot once but when I connected my other monitor and closed the case up it stopped working again.
Got a code 0037 when it tried to boot before, there's nothing in the manual about it.
Now all I get is no signal. I know it tries to boot because I have to hold the power button down for a few seconds to get it to turn off.
With the Sapphire card, it acts like it's not recognized and still no signal. One press of the power button and it turns off immediately.
All fans are spinning, no beeps, no windows sounds. Tried with DVI and Display Port cables on different monitors that all previously worked.
Thought it might be an issue with the extra drivers installed so I disconnected the HDD to try to get it into bios, but nothing.
I don't have a breadboard or postcard.
Besides trying a different PSU/GPU, what other options do I have?
Like I said, it booted up once, into Windows, and everything looked great. I think it's a bad GPU but then why does the other one not work?
I think the GPU was overclocked as it had extra fans on the rear cutout panels, so maybe it fried something?
Thanks
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