Question about 1x PCI-e Video card

[twarner]

Hey All,

Got what may be either an odd or stupid question 🙂

Helping a family member build a new computer. He has a DFI mother board (DFI Lan Party UT NForce4 Ultra-D) and a 1x Matrox PCI-e card one that looks much like this

Now I am sticking the card in the 16x slot, could that cause errors on installing windows? Do I need to plus the card into the 1x or 4x pci-e slot on the motherboard?

Any help would be great.

Thanks!

 

[ForumMaster]

i doubt as it was designed like this but it's kind of a waste. just put it in the x1 slot.

 

[Noubourne]

Bad RAM and a bad Hard Drive are the two most common reasons for getting errors when installing an OS.

 

[twarner]

Yea,

I tried both a new hard drive and new RAM. Same problems.

Pretty much it blue screens most of the time after it finishes the format and the inital copy. then when it reboots into windows right before it starts the next phase of the install. It blue screens.

So I'm kind of stumped.

 

[Aluvus]

That card should work fine in any PCI-Express slot (x1, x4, x16, whatever). Should.

 

[Lord Evermore]

People will pay 140 bucks for a G550?

Any chance the system is overheating during the installation? Somebody didn't leave the plastic protective cover on the CPU heatsink's thermal pad did they?

 

[twarner]

Don't know how much the card was. I think we got it much cheaper.

I didn't take off the heatsink mainly because the parts were tested before they left (ordered from monarch). I guess I could take it off though and have a look, no real harm in that.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Other than the bitch and a half it is to work with an A64 heatsink. You could just look at the BIOS hardware monitor to see if it thinks there's a heat problem. Also just try the simple expedient of leaving the side off the case and having a fan blowing into it while you work.