Defective Video Card?

[enz660hp]

I recently built a pc fo rmy friend, and the motherboard is giving me beeping. I have the Gigabyte P965-DS3 and an Asus x1950pro. When I first put ot together, it worked fine, installed drivers, even played some games. Then I did some more stuff to it, and it wouldnt post, only all the video card fan would run at 100% and the motherboard would give me one long beep, and two short ones following. I temporarally switched the card out with another one, and everything worked. Then switched them back, and everything worked! Now that toe build is finished, everything is installed, i even did benching and oveclocking on the x1905pro, i turn it on one last time before i box it up, and... "BEEEEEEEEEP BEEP BEEP!"

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again I put the nvidia card in, and swap them out right after, just like before, and it still doesnt work. Is this a defective video card? I would think that thre would be some other issues with it if it was, since i ran 3d mark a few times flawlessly.

Anyone? Thanks.

 

[enz660hp]

again....i JUST started it back up...and it magically works.

Life hates me today... lol

 

[enz660hp]

BUMP!!

 

[mpilchfamily]

Seams like the system doesn't lik the ATI card being OCed. The Beep code your getting indicates bad video. So whatever tweeking you are doing to the card after reinstalling it isn't going to work for that system. If you continue to have problems you may want to RMA the card and see how a new one goes.

 

[jjzelinski]

The PC is faulting out prior to the OC settings being implemented on it in the OS. Could be the power supply. Are you feeding the card an independent rail from the PS? Make sure your don't have anything else on that cable.

 

[enz660hp]

I really hope its not the PSU, i would hate to rma the whole case and psu....

i am rma'ing the video card though.

 

[mpilchfamily]

Wait you are using a PSU/Case combo? Which one did you get? There are very few case combos that actually come with a decent PSU.

 

[enz660hp]

Originally posted by: mpilchfamily
Wait you are using a PSU/Case combo? Which one did you get? There are very few case combos that actually come with a decent PSU.

Its the combo that was actually recommended by people on this forum. The Antec Sonata III and 500watt PSU.

 

[myocardia]

Your problem is a weak (i.e., doesn't need to be RMA'd, because a new one will perform the same) psu.

 

[enz660hp]

Originally posted by: myocardia
Your problem is a weak (i.e., doesn't need to be RMA'd, because a new one will perform the same) psu.

its running a stock e4400, x1950pro, 2gigs of ram, 1 hdd, and 1 dvd burner...

nothing is overclocked...

 

[jjzelinski]

Sorry man but that's what it sounds like. the x19XX series are power hungry little buggers.

On a side note, what's preventing you from testing the 1950XT in the other rig?

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: enz660hp

Originally posted by: myocardia
Your problem is a weak (i.e., doesn't need to be RMA'd, because a new one will perform the same) psu.

its running a stock e4400, x1950pro, 2gigs of ram, 1 hdd, and 1 dvd burner...

nothing is overclocked...

Want to find out whether it's an underpowered psu or not? It's easy. Just unplug all of the case fans (leave the side of the case off, so it won't overheat), unplug the optical drive, remove all of the pci cards, then start running 3dMark 06. If it will run it 6 or 7 times in a row, you'll know the problem isn't the power supply. If it still happens, it's your video driver, most likely. But, I would guess that it's a weak psu.

 

[enz660hp]

are the pcie cables connected to their own rail? Maybe I should simply switch to the other 6pin cable?

 

[enz660hp]

Yeah so I read a little about the Power Supply, It was reviewed here:

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1048

and during the test, the hardware was more demanding than what I was running.
This PSU has 34amps on the 12v rail

the x1950pro requires at least a 30amp rail.

Maybe I should switch pcie connectors? Or are they on the same rail? Thanks.