Alright, so I recently bought the newly released ATI Radeon 6970, hoping to get a good upgrade from a NVIDIA Geforce 8800GTS (320mb).
So, I went through the standard procedures of removing my drivers, taking computer a part and swapping the GPUs over, but when I put it in the 6970 fan was going at 100% and screen would not come on.
The single short beep from POST to indicate everything was A-Okay went and all lights are on. This is about a week ago. At the time, I called my mate over who is much more familiar with PC hardware than I am.
He did some tinkering, checking all cords were in properly and he did his meddling. In the end, it just starting working after we had repeatably turned computer off and on during his tests. I thought everything was magically solved, so I went online, got the 6970 drivers, installed them, no problem. Played Crysis and some other games on high settings, no problem.
I put the PC into sleep mode and go to sleep myself. When I wake up in the morning to wake up my computer from sleep mode, fan starts running again at 100% and screen won't come on.
So, I turn off the PC and turn it back on to no avail. I am quite confused at this point.
Now, before every starts saying tldr, lets get down to what I've done to try and fix the problem.
I've reset the BIOS, but that didn't work. I've thrown a different PSU in (I have a 1200W) and it DID work but at one point after testing the results were consistant, it went back to 100%. Turned off/on again a few times and started working.
I've also moved the RAM chips around and such.
Everything works fine with the 8800GTS, no problem. I've thrown at Geforce 570 in my comp (my mates), and it works. I've thrown my computer into my other mate's computer who has the same MB as me and it works.
Anyway, it is too long to list everything I've done or you'd be here forever, so just ask and I'll answer.
Here are the rest of my specs:
MB: ASUS M3N-H/HDMI
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (2 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
GPU: Geforce 8800GTS 320mb / ATI Radeon 6970 2GB
PSU: CTF opening case at the moment, but it is 1200W.
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
Couldn't seem to edit my post so my PSU is:
Topower Power Train 1200W (http://hi-techreviews.com/index.php...topower-powertrain-1200w-psu-review?showall=1)
Help?
So, I went through the standard procedures of removing my drivers, taking computer a part and swapping the GPUs over, but when I put it in the 6970 fan was going at 100% and screen would not come on.
The single short beep from POST to indicate everything was A-Okay went and all lights are on. This is about a week ago. At the time, I called my mate over who is much more familiar with PC hardware than I am.
He did some tinkering, checking all cords were in properly and he did his meddling. In the end, it just starting working after we had repeatably turned computer off and on during his tests. I thought everything was magically solved, so I went online, got the 6970 drivers, installed them, no problem. Played Crysis and some other games on high settings, no problem.
I put the PC into sleep mode and go to sleep myself. When I wake up in the morning to wake up my computer from sleep mode, fan starts running again at 100% and screen won't come on.
So, I turn off the PC and turn it back on to no avail. I am quite confused at this point.
Now, before every starts saying tldr, lets get down to what I've done to try and fix the problem.
I've reset the BIOS, but that didn't work. I've thrown a different PSU in (I have a 1200W) and it DID work but at one point after testing the results were consistant, it went back to 100%. Turned off/on again a few times and started working.
I've also moved the RAM chips around and such.
Everything works fine with the 8800GTS, no problem. I've thrown at Geforce 570 in my comp (my mates), and it works. I've thrown my computer into my other mate's computer who has the same MB as me and it works.
Anyway, it is too long to list everything I've done or you'd be here forever, so just ask and I'll answer.
Here are the rest of my specs:
MB: ASUS M3N-H/HDMI
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (2 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
GPU: Geforce 8800GTS 320mb / ATI Radeon 6970 2GB
PSU: CTF opening case at the moment, but it is 1200W.
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
Couldn't seem to edit my post so my PSU is:
Topower Power Train 1200W (http://hi-techreviews.com/index.php...topower-powertrain-1200w-psu-review?showall=1)
Help?