9800 GX2 never detected on boot-up

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rtesta

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Just received an evga 9800gx2 SSC, plugged it in and received a blank screen. Previous video card worked fine (x1800).
evga suggested RMA'ing it, so I did.

Has anyone else seen this?

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Asus Striker II Extreme, QX9770, Tagan 1300w PSU, evga 9800gx2SSC, 2x2gb Gskills 12800 ram
 

Don66

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Originally posted by: rtesta
Just received an evga 9800gx2 SSC, plugged it in and received a blank screen. Previous video card worked fine (x1800).
evga suggested RMA'ing it, so I did.

Has anyone else seen this?

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Asus Striker II Extreme, QX9770, Tagan 1300w PSU, evga 9800gx2SSC, 2x2gb Gskills 12800 ram

Yep, bought a XFX worked great for 2 days then nothing.
Green led's showed the card was getting power, but no blue led for video.
Fan ran @ 100%
Just died.
 

Rubycon

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Aug 10, 2005
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Originally posted by: Don66

Yep, bought a XFX worked great for 2 days then nothing.
Green led's showed the card was getting power, but no blue led for video.
Fan ran @ 100%
Just died.

Wow perhaps the end of life is coming to fruition - literally. ;)

I wonder how sensitive these are to out of spec PCI-E.
 

Don66

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Originally posted by: Rubycon
Originally posted by: Don66

Yep, bought a XFX worked great for 2 days then nothing.
Green led's showed the card was getting power, but no blue led for video.
Fan ran @ 100%
Just died.

Wow perhaps the end of life is coming to fruition - literally. ;)

I wonder how sensitive these are to out of spec PCI-E.

My board was running 105mhz on the pci-e settings.
My 8800GTX never had any problems.
 

Rubycon

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Yeah 105 should be no problem. I actually pushed up to 115 before my Areca RAID card started throwing memory errors. 110 was fine, however.
 

Deathgod360

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I Have the same problem but i do not have the blue led on at all if u know what that means can u give me some info to clarify my situation