I am building a new system with a gigabyte ep45 dq3 and a gigabyte 4870 x2. initially, it would not boot at all... so I tried a variety of other cards (including a gtx280 and 9500gt) which both booted up fine.
So it would make sense that the x2 was down. I went to return it, but when the shop tested it, it booted up fine. I brought it back home and it booted fine on my room mates machine. I went to far as to even play 30 mins of spore on it... i think we can take it as a reasonable supposition that the vid card is ok.
so I updated the bios on the dq6, and that helped a little... now at least I got SOME picture from the boot up, but it would still freeze in the middle of the boot (right after it detected the ram)
I have no idea what to do. There are no lights on the 4870 x2, and the board itself works fine with other video cards. I am using a thermaltake 750 watt psu. I have tried swapping out the the cables supplied from the psu, and using the converter to get the 6 pin, but that yields the same result.
can anyone offer any suggestions!?
So it would make sense that the x2 was down. I went to return it, but when the shop tested it, it booted up fine. I brought it back home and it booted fine on my room mates machine. I went to far as to even play 30 mins of spore on it... i think we can take it as a reasonable supposition that the vid card is ok.
so I updated the bios on the dq6, and that helped a little... now at least I got SOME picture from the boot up, but it would still freeze in the middle of the boot (right after it detected the ram)
I have no idea what to do. There are no lights on the 4870 x2, and the board itself works fine with other video cards. I am using a thermaltake 750 watt psu. I have tried swapping out the the cables supplied from the psu, and using the converter to get the 6 pin, but that yields the same result.
can anyone offer any suggestions!?
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