Hello. This is somewhat of an ongoing development in Tech Support (without much progress), but I figure the guys in here would be the experts on GPU-related stuff:
I'm about to throw in a new PSU, CPU fan, and Iceberq 4 Pro for my GF4 Ti4400 fan that broke. I replace them and hit the switch, and soem weird things happen. My EP-8RDA+ just flashes "FF" on the LED, and while that usually means everything's fine, it has to go through some other displays to show it's booting. Suddenly this MB will only post that and has no chance of booting. As I begin to test it more, other time it doesn't try to initiate booting, and I just start smelling burning. Also, the fan power ports on the top half of the motherboard stopped working right away, but the bottom port's fine.
I rip apart another EP-8RDA+ machine to make sure my CPU wasn't the thing burning. I switch it in and it's fine. I switch out PC #2's GF4 MX and pop in my GF4 Ti4400. All of a sudden it won't boot. I switch it out immediately and put the MX back in--only "FF." No power problems or burning smell, but dead none the same.
I've reset the BIOS on both machines, let them cool, etc etc. All I did on my GPU was rip off the old one, slop on some Artic Silver 3, and put on the new one and connect the power. Could I have shorted it out? Completed a circuit or something? Might I have disrupted one of the (whatever one of those cylindars on the card are... circuits, capacitors?)? Could that cause problems like this? Please point me in a direction--how a safe fan upgrade kills 2 systems is beyond me.
I'm about to throw in a new PSU, CPU fan, and Iceberq 4 Pro for my GF4 Ti4400 fan that broke. I replace them and hit the switch, and soem weird things happen. My EP-8RDA+ just flashes "FF" on the LED, and while that usually means everything's fine, it has to go through some other displays to show it's booting. Suddenly this MB will only post that and has no chance of booting. As I begin to test it more, other time it doesn't try to initiate booting, and I just start smelling burning. Also, the fan power ports on the top half of the motherboard stopped working right away, but the bottom port's fine.
I rip apart another EP-8RDA+ machine to make sure my CPU wasn't the thing burning. I switch it in and it's fine. I switch out PC #2's GF4 MX and pop in my GF4 Ti4400. All of a sudden it won't boot. I switch it out immediately and put the MX back in--only "FF." No power problems or burning smell, but dead none the same.
I've reset the BIOS on both machines, let them cool, etc etc. All I did on my GPU was rip off the old one, slop on some Artic Silver 3, and put on the new one and connect the power. Could I have shorted it out? Completed a circuit or something? Might I have disrupted one of the (whatever one of those cylindars on the card are... circuits, capacitors?)? Could that cause problems like this? Please point me in a direction--how a safe fan upgrade kills 2 systems is beyond me.
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