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I jumped over to this forum to see if anyone would have some insight to a peculiar problem I'm facing.
I'm trying to evaluate and pre-test a P45-chipset motherboard (Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R) for use as a file server with an E6600 processor.
Two years ago, I picked up an eVGA (nVidia) 7600 GT PCI-E card for $70 for use in testing. I decided to get some use out of it with this Gigabyte mobo.
I've had terrible trouble, as evidenced on the "Motherboards" forum. The one consistent malfunction of the system would be described this way: Sometimes, the system posts, and appears stable (at default settings). I ran MEMTEST86+ against a 1GB kit of OCZ's through 10 iterations -- no problem -- after going through lockups between the 1st and 3rd iteration after manually setting the mobo to run the processor at the Intel spec. But throughout these troubles, shutting the system down and rebooting shows the proper keyboard initialization signals, floppy-read, etc. But the system doesn't bring the monitor out of sleep state, so I can't really see if the system is posting.
The 7600 GT is an "unpowered" graphics card -- it doesn't require the six-pin power-plug of later, high-end cards.
Is there some discontinuity in compatibility with these newer motherboards and older, unpowered PCI-E graphics cards?
I'm trying to evaluate and pre-test a P45-chipset motherboard (Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R) for use as a file server with an E6600 processor.
Two years ago, I picked up an eVGA (nVidia) 7600 GT PCI-E card for $70 for use in testing. I decided to get some use out of it with this Gigabyte mobo.
I've had terrible trouble, as evidenced on the "Motherboards" forum. The one consistent malfunction of the system would be described this way: Sometimes, the system posts, and appears stable (at default settings). I ran MEMTEST86+ against a 1GB kit of OCZ's through 10 iterations -- no problem -- after going through lockups between the 1st and 3rd iteration after manually setting the mobo to run the processor at the Intel spec. But throughout these troubles, shutting the system down and rebooting shows the proper keyboard initialization signals, floppy-read, etc. But the system doesn't bring the monitor out of sleep state, so I can't really see if the system is posting.
The 7600 GT is an "unpowered" graphics card -- it doesn't require the six-pin power-plug of later, high-end cards.
Is there some discontinuity in compatibility with these newer motherboards and older, unpowered PCI-E graphics cards?