Long story - and I just don't get it:
Friday night I picked up a BFG 8800GTS OC 512MB. Filled with glee I installed it and had a great time with it.
The next morning I went to fire up the PC and had no display whatsoever. After some whining I was able to discern that the system was infact booting, I merely could not see anything.
edit: To be clear - my monitor is not coming out of standby while the system is continuing on it's merry way. The monitor knows it's plugged into the card because it does not give me the "check cable message" that it does when I unplug it from the card. But it's not receiving a signal from the card, or at least doesn't think it is.
Reinstalled my 7900GTX, worked fine. Ok, defective card right? So I returned it and exchange it for a new one. Same thing. No POST errors (that I can hear), system would boot but I could not see anything. When the first 8800 was working fine, when I booted my PC up the fan would come on for a second and then slow down, but when this "issue" began the fan merely stayed on full blast without slowing down.
Called BFG Tech, he suggested a BIOS upgrade, which I did (and which caused a serious problem and had me reintalling the OS etc etc). No avail, card still acts the same. I was running XP Pro, and when that went South during the BIOS upgrade I figured what a prime opportunity to format and install this fresh copy of Vista.
I put the 7900GTX back in, and figured well, fine I'll just get an eVGA card instead. This morning the 8800GTS (G92) was out of stock for eVGA, so I figured I might as well get a 9800GTX, woohaa. As you can probably guess by now... I get the exact same thing with the 9800 card . eVGA man was scratching his head as well. He has suggested that possibly it's a slot incompatibility (mine is not PCIe 2, but the cards are supposed to be backwards compatible), both cards were PCIe 2... if that's the issue why on Earth did it work perfect for the first night?
Motherboard: Asus A8N-E
Power Supply: Enermax 485W (neither card indicated not enough power)
Ideas? Solutions? Perhaps a hypothesis?
Stupid computers.
Friday night I picked up a BFG 8800GTS OC 512MB. Filled with glee I installed it and had a great time with it.
The next morning I went to fire up the PC and had no display whatsoever. After some whining I was able to discern that the system was infact booting, I merely could not see anything.
edit: To be clear - my monitor is not coming out of standby while the system is continuing on it's merry way. The monitor knows it's plugged into the card because it does not give me the "check cable message" that it does when I unplug it from the card. But it's not receiving a signal from the card, or at least doesn't think it is.
Reinstalled my 7900GTX, worked fine. Ok, defective card right? So I returned it and exchange it for a new one. Same thing. No POST errors (that I can hear), system would boot but I could not see anything. When the first 8800 was working fine, when I booted my PC up the fan would come on for a second and then slow down, but when this "issue" began the fan merely stayed on full blast without slowing down.
Called BFG Tech, he suggested a BIOS upgrade, which I did (and which caused a serious problem and had me reintalling the OS etc etc). No avail, card still acts the same. I was running XP Pro, and when that went South during the BIOS upgrade I figured what a prime opportunity to format and install this fresh copy of Vista.
I put the 7900GTX back in, and figured well, fine I'll just get an eVGA card instead. This morning the 8800GTS (G92) was out of stock for eVGA, so I figured I might as well get a 9800GTX, woohaa. As you can probably guess by now... I get the exact same thing with the 9800 card . eVGA man was scratching his head as well. He has suggested that possibly it's a slot incompatibility (mine is not PCIe 2, but the cards are supposed to be backwards compatible), both cards were PCIe 2... if that's the issue why on Earth did it work perfect for the first night?
Motherboard: Asus A8N-E
Power Supply: Enermax 485W (neither card indicated not enough power)
Ideas? Solutions? Perhaps a hypothesis?
Stupid computers.