- Aug 11, 2013
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Hi all,
My specs are listed in my sig. I am having a MOBO/GPU(?) issue, and I am out of ideas. Recently, I removed the 8800GTS I was using as a dedicated PHYSX processor for my GTX460 768MB. I had noticed it was quite dusty, and so I pulled off its heat sink, giving it a clean, and re-applied thermal compound. I put the card back in, plugged in the supplemental power connector, and fired off my system. It posted improperly. I tested the wires, moved them around and tried again. This time it worked, and I went into the BIOS, booting into start up repair to fix any issues that might have arose from the improper POST. After it completed, I booted windows. Everything went fine, but after the "Starting Windows" screen passed, I lost all monitor out. A simple press of the power button for a proper shutdown did nothing, so I was forced to hard shut down the computer. I tried start-up repair again, and it told me the problem could not be fixed automatically. So I removed the 8800GTS, and attempted to boot. It worked first try, and I was in to the OS. Naturally, this peaked my curiosity, and so I removed the GTX460 and put the 8800GTS in its place, booting with it. It went, but I had odd random ASCI characters as a screen after POST, which quickly vanished. I was left with the normal "Starting Windows" screen, but it had random green dotted lines in clusters across it. I installed the drivers for the card (for some reason they were missing and windows did not try to find them), then restarted. Everything went fine, until I had the same issue with no display out that was the problem in the first place. So I put the 460 back in, this time with a 7800GT in the second slot to test. I booted fine, but windows never recognized the 7800GT. So my question is, is it a bad PCI Express slot?
My specs are listed in my sig. I am having a MOBO/GPU(?) issue, and I am out of ideas. Recently, I removed the 8800GTS I was using as a dedicated PHYSX processor for my GTX460 768MB. I had noticed it was quite dusty, and so I pulled off its heat sink, giving it a clean, and re-applied thermal compound. I put the card back in, plugged in the supplemental power connector, and fired off my system. It posted improperly. I tested the wires, moved them around and tried again. This time it worked, and I went into the BIOS, booting into start up repair to fix any issues that might have arose from the improper POST. After it completed, I booted windows. Everything went fine, but after the "Starting Windows" screen passed, I lost all monitor out. A simple press of the power button for a proper shutdown did nothing, so I was forced to hard shut down the computer. I tried start-up repair again, and it told me the problem could not be fixed automatically. So I removed the 8800GTS, and attempted to boot. It worked first try, and I was in to the OS. Naturally, this peaked my curiosity, and so I removed the GTX460 and put the 8800GTS in its place, booting with it. It went, but I had odd random ASCI characters as a screen after POST, which quickly vanished. I was left with the normal "Starting Windows" screen, but it had random green dotted lines in clusters across it. I installed the drivers for the card (for some reason they were missing and windows did not try to find them), then restarted. Everything went fine, until I had the same issue with no display out that was the problem in the first place. So I put the 460 back in, this time with a 7800GT in the second slot to test. I booted fine, but windows never recognized the 7800GT. So my question is, is it a bad PCI Express slot?
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