Installed new gpu and pc is dead

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pjj1180

Discussion Starter · Mar 12, 2009

Hey guys,
I installed a new gpu and my pc ran for a while. I had blue screen errors left and right. I decided to put the old card in after a final blue screen and now nothing. I put the new card back in and still nothing. The machine fires up all lights and fans but no video. I reset bios (via the battery) and that did not help. I was wondering if my psu went. Initially I had a 8800gts640 and all was well then I ran a 8800 GTX in there and I was having blue screens with that and assumed it was my card. I then put a 9800gtx and was okay, but never got the performance I thought I should. It crashed some, but no blue screens. I now put a 4870 in and it was blue screening left and right. I have a bfg 650 psu. Specs say it should be fine. Hopefully my motherboard is not cooked. Any thoughts where to start.
Thanx for input PJ

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Acoma_Andy

· #2 · Mar 12, 2009

Try taking out a memory module, and swap them around in the different slots.

orbiter

· #3 · Mar 12, 2009

You do have the extra power connectors inserted in the card?

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pjj1180

Discussion Starter · #4 · Mar 12, 2009

Yes I did. Tried moving memory also.

pjj1180

Discussion Starter · #5 · Mar 12, 2009

If the PSU went, fine. I just hope I don't have all kinds of parts going with it. If I have to replace mobo, thats okay.

trogalicious

· #6 · Mar 12, 2009

did you remove the drivers before popping in the new card? have you tried booting the system with one stick of ram in? did you de-static yourself before going in?

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Acoma_Andy

· #7 · Mar 12, 2009

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Yes I did. Tried moving memory also.

It could also be your PSU, a while ago I read about a guy that had 3 different BFG 650w die in a row.

What kind of blue screens were you getting? Would it hang or reboot?

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pjj1180

Discussion Starter · #8 · Mar 12, 2009

Did all but tried booting with one stick I will try that now.

Aaron_Henderson

· #9 · Mar 12, 2009

Leave it for a bit (the PSU), and after it's good and cold, try doing a run with only the following -

1. your least powerful GPU
2. 1 stick of ram (try in different slots each boot)
3. Nothing else (no HDD's or anything)

See if that boots.

trogalicious

· #10 · Mar 12, 2009

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Did all but tried booting with one stick I will try that now.

keep us posted.

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pjj1180

Discussion Starter · #11 · Mar 12, 2009

Well it fired up with the 1 stick in. That does not fix the blue screen issue. I have beed getting different issues. Like page fault and irq and ati....

Hey thanx guys for the help so far, really

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trogalicious

· #12 · Mar 12, 2009

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Well it fired up with the 1 stick in. That does not fix the blue screen issue. I have beed getting different issues. Like page fault and irq and ati....

Hey thanx guys for the help so far, really

if you get the chance, write down the errors?

also, power down completely? take the power from the board.. unplug the cpu... reset the cmos and then try once more?

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pjj1180

Discussion Starter · #13 · Mar 12, 2009

will do. BRB

Biatch

· #14 · Mar 12, 2009

You can see the bluescreens:

start/control panel/system/advanced options/startup and recovery (start automatically again), don't mark it.

pjj1180

Discussion Starter · #15 · Mar 12, 2009

So I reseated the cpu and cleared cmos and totally powered down and fired back up. I set the option to not restart on blue screens. I now notice since this episode my rfactor(game) exe is not working at all. It tries to open a web page? Must have got corrupted. I will post back with future blue screen errors.
Thanx again guys

dragosmp

· #16 · Mar 12, 2009

To test if the PSU is overwhelmed try these:
-powerup and on desktop use any tool you know to check for the +12V voltage; it should be at least @11.6V, though over 11.8V would be even better
-start some game while monitoring in the background the +12V voltage (use speedfan for example) it should never drop under 11.6V, preferably it should stay over 11.8V

A PSU when it's pushed too far has the tendency to lower +12V voltages. A solid +12 on the +12V rail points to a healthy PSU.

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pjj1180

Discussion Starter · #17 · Mar 12, 2009

I will try that

coonsaa

· #18 · Mar 12, 2009

Blue screen errors are from my experience memory sticks with slight problems Run Memtest86 for a few days and see if error ensue.

Biatch

· #19 · Mar 12, 2009

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Blue screen errors are from my experience memory sticks with slight problems Run Memtest86 for a few days and see if error ensue.

Useless in this situtation, just a waste of time.

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coonsaa

· #20 · Mar 12, 2009

I have heard you can jump the PSU with a paper clip and measure the rails with a multimeter to test if its still good. never done it before but may be worth a try if anyone has more data on it.

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