Help with eVGA Personal Cinema 5200

vanbeast

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Mar 27, 2005
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Hey all,

About 8 months ago I won an eVGA Personal Cinema FX5200. It worked for a few days and then began to blink out. The monitor would lose signal and as far as I could tell the computer was locked up. I had a pretty crappy system at the time so I wasn't surprised it didn't work. I went back to my MX420 and was happy-ish.

I just bought a new machine, though, and the damn thing still didn't work. This time I didn't even get a few days out of it. I sent the card back to be replaced, but the new one does the same thing.

eVGA recommends you change the AGP Aperture (which is not an option in my BIOS, at least not one I can find) and swap the slots your memory is in. Failing that, they suggest turning your AGP bus back down to 1x. That seems pretty bogus to me, like they're just compensating for having shipped a crappy card.

Anyhow, I've been having a hard time finding any information out about this problem. eVGA has three or four FAQs on their site about it, but nowhere else on teh intarweb have I found anything. So here I am askin' you.

My current system is:

Athlon64 3200+ (... the 90nm one, whichever that is, if it makes a difference)
GigaByte K8NS-939
2x 512MB Mushkin PC3200
Antec 350W psu

My old system was:

1GHz Celeron
Shuttle AV-18E
2x 128MB shitram
Random 350W psu

At first I thought it was power so I disconnected all but my system hard drive, but that didn't fix the problem. Some people said it might be bad memory, but that seems unlikely since I have no other problems whatsoever. I'm running everything at completely stock speeds and settings, so I'm at a loss for what's going on.

Anybody have any ideas? I'm trying to avoid buying a new card because I know my conscience won't let me not upgrade to PCI-e and at least a 6600GT :p

Thanks :)

EDIT: Turns out those settings do exist in my BIOS, they're just hidden. I guess you have to hit ctrl-f1 in the Gigabyte BIOS to get to advanced features? Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks, gigabyte.

EDIT PART 2: But they didn't do any good. Welcome back to square one.
 

Rankor

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Jul 10, 2000
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where did you win the video card? was the contest from evga?

Maybe they can replace it.
 

vanbeast

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Mar 27, 2005
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Nah, I won it at a "BUY CRAP FROM US" event at my distributor. I've already had it replaced once, maybe I forgot to say that. I'm on the second card with the same problem :/