MSI NX6800 and corrupt BIOS POST screen

[Guest]

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Hi Guys

I just got my MSI NX6800 vanila GF6 6800 today. Unfortunately, on power
up, the POST screen is corrupted with a blocky square effect as is the
BIOS and windows boot screens. The card has a fan speed control which
doesn't seem to make things better at all.

My specs are:

P4 Northwood 2.4 GHz,
1 GB DDR266,
i845D chipset MSI mobo.
SB Audigy
Happauge WinTV
Realtek NIC
2x IDE Hard-disks
DVD ROM
CDRW
350 W Tsunami PSU.

Putting in my old GF FX 5600 works fine. I suspect 'tis either my PSU
being underpowered ( for Text modes for the BIOS seems unbelievable! )
or the card has faulty memory.

Any ideas before I try to RMA the card?

Cheers
Sharanga

 

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everybody has that problem with those cards. It seems that all of
them have bad memory. ship it back to the seller.

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:15:45 +0000, Sharanga Dayananda wrote:

> Hi Guys
>
> I just got my MSI NX6800 vanila GF6 6800 today. Unfortunately, on power
> up, the POST screen is corrupted with a blocky square effect as is the
> BIOS and windows boot screens. The card has a fan speed control which
> doesn't seem to make things better at all.
>
> My specs are:
>
> P4 Northwood 2.4 GHz,
> 1 GB DDR266,
> i845D chipset MSI mobo.
> SB Audigy
> Happauge WinTV
> Realtek NIC
> 2x IDE Hard-disks
> DVD ROM
> CDRW
> 350 W Tsunami PSU.
>
> Putting in my old GF FX 5600 works fine. I suspect 'tis either my PSU
> being underpowered ( for Text modes for the BIOS seems unbelievable! )
> or the card has faulty memory.
>
> Any ideas before I try to RMA the card?
>
> Cheers
> Sharanga

 

[tool]

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Maybe, but then again, doesn't this card take an extra power cable to
connect it straight to the power supply? Cause I thought they
recommended 480Watt power supplies as a MINIMUM for using those
cards.

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The vanilla 6800 takes a single PSU connector, which I've connected. The
machine doesn't boot without this connector plugged in. But I'm not sure
whether the machine would have a garbled POST screen and a totally
unreadable BIOS screen on power up and a weird horizontal and vertical
line artifacted Windows boot screen.
Tool wrote:
> Maybe, but then again, doesn't this card take an extra power cable to
> connect it straight to the power supply? Cause I thought they
> recommended 480Watt power supplies as a MINIMUM for using those
> cards.
>
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Tool wrote:

> Maybe, but then again, doesn't this card take an extra power cable to
> connect it straight to the power supply? Cause I thought they
> recommended 480Watt power supplies as a MINIMUM for using those
> cards.
>
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The manufacturer's site recommends a minimum of 350W.