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bensully   09-12-2009 at 04:36:03 AM

So I had originally posted this problem in the video-card forum as I thought that my brand new Sapphire 4870 was defective, but I found that putting it into my roommate's computer produced a display and switching his 8600gtx into mine produced no display. So I'm leaning towards the motherboard being the issue now.

I built the damn thing today and from boot an LED on the 4870 labeled D1601, which apparently indicates when the card is running too hot, turns on and I get no display. I haven't even got a chance to install an OS on this thing. It won't even bring up the BIOS splash screen and since it has no on board video, I can't test that out.

Like I said, a different PCI-e card didn't work in my mobo either, so it might be fried. But since I have a habit of omitting crucial steps to computer building, I'm afraid of submitting an RMA before I fully investigate my available solutions.

What do y'all think?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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bensully   09-12-2009 at 04:38:38 AM
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I suppose the type of board would be helpful.

MSI P55-GD65 with an i5-750
4 gigs of Crucial RAM
Raidmax 530 Watt power
Sapphire Vapor-X 1G 4870
harddrive, cd drive, etc


Thanks

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CCKMA   09-15-2009 at 05:20:19 AM
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I am having the same problem with mine. One thing might be if you put the ram in the wrong slots, they should be in the black slots, not the blue ones. I tried that with mine and it didn't work, but I also noticed that two of the three system fan plugs on my mobo were acting up. When I turn it on the fans will spin up but then they will stop running, they work in the one system fan plug though

MSI P55 GD65
Intel i7 860
2x2 GB G.skill DDR3 1333 RAM
OCZ 700 Watt PSU
Sapphire Vapor-X 4890
WD caviar black 500 GB HDD
CD drive

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CCKMA   09-15-2009 at 06:11:52 AM
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I also noticed that one of the power nodes is not running, not sure if that might be a cause of the problem, or just another thing that is acting up because the board itself is dead. I still get power to all the components, the cpu fan, the gpu fan, my optical drive, hard drive, etc all get power.

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bensully   09-16-2009 at 05:37:53 PM
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My board was the same, everything fired up, including the card, it just didn't display anything.

I just decided to RMA the thing in hopes that the next one will work.

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jons1976gp   09-21-2009 at 10:42:21 PM
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did you make sure to hookup the pci-x power cable to the card? I know its an easy thing to overlook, ive done it be4! :) if you get it working, let me know. im getting ready to build new system, and im going back and forth between the msi and gigabyre udp4 board. i need sli.

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bensully   09-21-2009 at 11:01:05 PM
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Haha, yeah there are actually two 6-pin rails that go into the back of this thing. It's serious business.

The old board just got to Newegg's shipping faciliity today so I'm expecting it Thursday or Friday. I'll post after I get the new one slapped together.

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xanagu   09-25-2009 at 08:08:25 PM
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Pls, some of you guys solve the problem???, cuz I just order for a new pc

- core i5 750
- board : msi gd-65
- video : sapphire 4850 vapor 1GB.
- memory : 2GBx2 hyper-x kingston 1600

I'm not even in U.S so if i have problems i dunno what i'm gonna do :cry:


Message edited by xanagu on 09-25-2009 at 09:14:18 PM
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Anonymous   09-26-2009 at 06:49:47 AM
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I had similar problems with my msi p-55 gd-65

Problem was that there was one
bent pin in CPU socket.

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bensully   10-02-2009 at 12:40:54 AM
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Well I got the new board and put it back together.

Same problem.

I'm about to throw the thing off of my roof. I have no idea what to do.

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Anonymous   10-10-2009 at 08:15:21 AM
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make sure the board is not making contact whit the case chasis the screws that come whit the case go under the board and probably u will have 2 find the right ones to fit on to those it sounds like the board is grounded

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twanto   11-02-2009 at 05:04:56 AM
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Also double check it is not your power supply. Test that with your buddy's computer as well, if you can.

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