R9290 & EVGA 780i / Q6600 = BSOD

[NavJitsU4]

My current setup is old (built in eary 08, except for the PSU and Video card with were upgraded a year ago):

Intel Quad Core Q6600 (45nm! kentsfield, Oc'd to 3.4Ghz)
8GB DDR2
EVGA 780i
Thermaltake 850w PSU
EVGA 660GTX
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit (Patched completely)

I was given an Asus R9 290, theoretically it should work fine in my box but it doesn't, it will BSOD within seconds or minutes if I turn Windows Aero on or launch a game.

I reinstalled the OS just to see if it was some type of residual driver issue but the problem still persists.

I'm not much of a cutting edge gamer, so I really don't want to upgrade mobo and CPU if I don't have to. Has anyone run into this before with a old motherboard cpu and a R9 290?

Thanks!

 

[MangoX]

Does your board have a molex port on the motherboard for extra pci-e power? I used to have a q6600 and a evga 780i and I had issues with higher end cards like a gtx295 if I didn't plug in the extra molex power.

 

[NavJitsU4]

Does your board have a molex port on the motherboard for extra pci-e power? I used to have a q6600 and a evga 780i and I had issues with higher end cards like a gtx295 if I didn't plug in the extra molex power.

I've got the 8 pin and 6 pin plugs connected to the card form the PSU but my motherboard doesn't have anything for PCI-E, do alll new motherboards have this?

 

[NavJitsU4]

Bump for answers to life's real problems 🙂

 

[RussianSensation]

Make sure you have updated the motherboard's BIOS to the latest version and you have uninstalled NV driver's fully. There are some users who report compatibility problems with newer PCIe 3.0 cards on older PCIe 1.1 motherboards.