I'm switching from a NVIDIA GTS 250 to an AMD Radeon 7850. My system specs have been checked out and should be fine to run the 7850. Here's what happens:
I pop in the 7850. My motherboard screen pops up. Windows 7 begins to boot. About a second into the animated loading icon, it stops, and my computer restarts right away. After my motherboard screen it brings me to a screen similar to the safe-mode screen when you hard reset, except it says something about windows not being able to start because of a recent hardware change. It gives me the option to run a diagnostic (which only reports that it can roll back my computer to a time when it worked, which I don't want to do because it won't solve the problem), or I can start windows normally, which will, of course, make me start all over again with the restarting when it hits the windows loading screen.
I've tried checking my connections, and everything seems okay. The card has power. I'm fairly certain it's well connected in the slot (although the end toward the back of the computer didn't quite *click* into place like the front half did). I haven't knocked any cables loose. In fact, I tried putting in my old card, and it worked, albeit everything was noticeably slower, which I couldn't explain. After getting back in with my old card, I went into Device Manager and uninstalled my GTS 250 and the checked the box when it asked to uninstall the drivers for it as well. I go into low-res mode after the motherboard switches to onboard video, then I shut off the computer, switch back to the Radeon 7850, and no dice. Same problem.
Does anyone have anything else I can try? I've always heard that a lot of cards that get RMA'd are done so because the customer doesn't quite know what they're doing, and I'm REALLY hoping that this is precisely that situation.
Any help would be fantastic. Thanks!
I pop in the 7850. My motherboard screen pops up. Windows 7 begins to boot. About a second into the animated loading icon, it stops, and my computer restarts right away. After my motherboard screen it brings me to a screen similar to the safe-mode screen when you hard reset, except it says something about windows not being able to start because of a recent hardware change. It gives me the option to run a diagnostic (which only reports that it can roll back my computer to a time when it worked, which I don't want to do because it won't solve the problem), or I can start windows normally, which will, of course, make me start all over again with the restarting when it hits the windows loading screen.
I've tried checking my connections, and everything seems okay. The card has power. I'm fairly certain it's well connected in the slot (although the end toward the back of the computer didn't quite *click* into place like the front half did). I haven't knocked any cables loose. In fact, I tried putting in my old card, and it worked, albeit everything was noticeably slower, which I couldn't explain. After getting back in with my old card, I went into Device Manager and uninstalled my GTS 250 and the checked the box when it asked to uninstall the drivers for it as well. I go into low-res mode after the motherboard switches to onboard video, then I shut off the computer, switch back to the Radeon 7850, and no dice. Same problem.
Does anyone have anything else I can try? I've always heard that a lot of cards that get RMA'd are done so because the customer doesn't quite know what they're doing, and I'm REALLY hoping that this is precisely that situation.
Any help would be fantastic. Thanks!
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