Hello,
I purchased a Gigabyte 7870 yesterday as an upgrade from a 6850. I've been considering this for a while and have been upgrading my system to accommodate the new card, mainly a new Antec VP650p psu and a larger case. The system has been running perfectly with these upgrades and continues to do so now.
This morning it was time to install the new card so I uninstalled CCC through control panel and uninstalled the drivers through device manager and rebooted. I also deleted any AMD/Ati folders that I could still find.
Then I followed Gigabyte's install instructions to the letter, turned the system on, everything lit up like normal but... there was no beep. System didn't post, no bios menu no nothing, it just hung there no display whatsoever, the only signs of life were the fans that were spinning at a normal speed. I turned the power off and re-seated the card but same thing. I put the 6850 back in and it booted up straight away.
Since then I've tried using a different hdmi cable, dvi to vga, clearing cmos, using the molex to 6-pin adapters the card came with but nothing I've tried as had any effect. It makes my system unable to boot which makes me think I've got a dud card. I'm planning on returning it to the store where I got it tomorrow for a replacement but I wanted to query the collective wisdom of Tom's first. Unfortunately I don't have another system to test it in.
Does this sound like the card is DOA or have I taken a wrong turn somewhere? What else can I try to get this thing to work?
tl;dr
Put new 7870 in system and it won't post, put old 6850 back in and it's fine, any advice, please?
Some specs:
i5 2500
Asrock h67m ge <---Could this be causing any problems?
2 x 4GB ram
Antec VP650p
I purchased a Gigabyte 7870 yesterday as an upgrade from a 6850. I've been considering this for a while and have been upgrading my system to accommodate the new card, mainly a new Antec VP650p psu and a larger case. The system has been running perfectly with these upgrades and continues to do so now.
This morning it was time to install the new card so I uninstalled CCC through control panel and uninstalled the drivers through device manager and rebooted. I also deleted any AMD/Ati folders that I could still find.
Then I followed Gigabyte's install instructions to the letter, turned the system on, everything lit up like normal but... there was no beep. System didn't post, no bios menu no nothing, it just hung there no display whatsoever, the only signs of life were the fans that were spinning at a normal speed. I turned the power off and re-seated the card but same thing. I put the 6850 back in and it booted up straight away.
Since then I've tried using a different hdmi cable, dvi to vga, clearing cmos, using the molex to 6-pin adapters the card came with but nothing I've tried as had any effect. It makes my system unable to boot which makes me think I've got a dud card. I'm planning on returning it to the store where I got it tomorrow for a replacement but I wanted to query the collective wisdom of Tom's first. Unfortunately I don't have another system to test it in.
Does this sound like the card is DOA or have I taken a wrong turn somewhere? What else can I try to get this thing to work?
tl;dr
Put new 7870 in system and it won't post, put old 6850 back in and it's fine, any advice, please?
Some specs:
i5 2500
Asrock h67m ge <---Could this be causing any problems?
2 x 4GB ram
Antec VP650p