Videocard POST issue

[Rvenger]

Hi all,

I figure I would ask this question since it is now a concern. Yesterday I received my Radeon 5850 and I installed it into my computer and it would not post at all. The post LED was saying everything was OK but nothing on the screen. Cleared the CMOS and nothing again. Intel HD3000 drivers were uninstalled and the first boot device was the PCI Express slot. The card looked pretty dingy so I decided to go to Bestbuy and buy the Clearance GTX460 I seen the week before. I bought that and installed it. No post at all again! At this time I am thinking I had a bad PCIE slot.

I finally got smart and I tried the 2nd PCIE port and finally it booted up! I got curious and put the card back into the 1st slot and it booted up now as well.

I honestly don't understand what happened here. Now everything is working perfectly fine. The only thing I didn't do is snap the slot lock into place when it wasn't booting. When I snapped the lock into place that is when it booted. The card was still seated correctly so I don't get it.


Anyone run into this issue before?

 

[Puppies04]

Sorry to point out the obvious but as the lock only engages when the card is fully slotted in and as you didn't close the lock how can you be sure that is was in properly before? Because the simplist answer is that it wasn't.

 

[Subyman]

I've had the cards be weird about wanting to slot in just right before. I'd blow the channel out and make sure there isn't some obstruction in there. I had a client that had a small piece of wood in the RAM slot before. Don't ask me how it got there.

 

[Rvenger]

Sorry to point out the obvious but as the lock only engages when the card is fully slotted in and as you didn't close the lock how can you be sure that is was in properly before? Because the simplist answer is that it wasn't.

Lock doesn't engage because its a slider style lock. You have to slide it over until it clicks.