Hey People,
I have just aquired a Club3D 5850 at a very reasonable price -considering these(5850's)are still pretty hard to come by. Everytime the machine boots up it just freezes on the XP screen or BS'sOD my ass when the cursor is supposed to appear on Win 7 Ultimate (x86).
Now...I have a sneaky suspicion it's the 2x4pin to 6pin converter that's a little dodgy. (Only 5 of the 6 pins actually have metal casings in them. The middle top pin is empty.) I'm not very "well-versed" when it comes to "new-generation" graphics cards, so please just excuse my ignorance -should this be the problem.
I have the following setup and would like to know whether it could be the PSU that just isn't strong enough to deal with this card -although according to all/most of the forums I've stalked 500W's SHOULD do the trick.
Q8400
3x2gb DDR2 800mhz RAM
ECS P45T-A m/b
LG Lightscribe DVD-writer
Club3D 5850
Procase 500W PSU
2x250GB SATA2 hdd's
USB KB
USB Mouse
Logitech Controller (I add in all the usb devices that are dependant on the PSU.)
I haven't had time to get rid of my previous card's drivers -I put it up for sale and it sold before I had a chance to get my hands on the 5850. (Was a Nvidia GTS250 512mb.)
So! This is my EXTREMELY frustrating story. I'm going to haul my butt off to the store tomorrow to get another 2x4-6pin converter to see if that will solve my problem, but I still thought I should just throw this out here and see if anyone else has come across something like this and what they did about it.
I have just aquired a Club3D 5850 at a very reasonable price -considering these(5850's)are still pretty hard to come by. Everytime the machine boots up it just freezes on the XP screen or BS'sOD my ass when the cursor is supposed to appear on Win 7 Ultimate (x86).
Now...I have a sneaky suspicion it's the 2x4pin to 6pin converter that's a little dodgy. (Only 5 of the 6 pins actually have metal casings in them. The middle top pin is empty.) I'm not very "well-versed" when it comes to "new-generation" graphics cards, so please just excuse my ignorance -should this be the problem.
I have the following setup and would like to know whether it could be the PSU that just isn't strong enough to deal with this card -although according to all/most of the forums I've stalked 500W's SHOULD do the trick.
Q8400
3x2gb DDR2 800mhz RAM
ECS P45T-A m/b
LG Lightscribe DVD-writer
Club3D 5850
Procase 500W PSU
2x250GB SATA2 hdd's
USB KB
USB Mouse
Logitech Controller (I add in all the usb devices that are dependant on the PSU.)
I haven't had time to get rid of my previous card's drivers -I put it up for sale and it sold before I had a chance to get my hands on the 5850. (Was a Nvidia GTS250 512mb.)
So! This is my EXTREMELY frustrating story. I'm going to haul my butt off to the store tomorrow to get another 2x4-6pin converter to see if that will solve my problem, but I still thought I should just throw this out here and see if anyone else has come across something like this and what they did about it.