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9800 refusing to work on my rig

  • 25-08-2005 10:08pm
    #1
    AdMMM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,472 ✭✭✭


    I bought a 9800pro recently and when I booted up after installing it(yes I uninstalled previous drivers and connected the molex cable), it got to the login screen but THE VERY MILLISECOND it got there it just froze. I restarted and nothing happened (the light on my monitor just kept flashing). The VGA cooler was still blasting away though!

    I tried taking it out and putting it back in and once again nothing happened (light kept flashing).

    At this point I put back in my old card and lo and behold it worked perfectly. This led me to believe it was a defective card, however I installed it on another PC and it worked fine. This made me think that it was PSU related as I only have a 300w PSU and it isn't top of the range either (Jeantech from PC World).

    The next day I tried installing it again and this time it got to the login screen again before freezing again. Restarted and nothing at all happened (except the fan was going). It isn't the graphics card that freezes, it's obviously the eintire system because pressing the power button on my PC while it (should) be on the login screen doesnt shut it down.

    Any suggestions on what might be the problem?

    It doesnt really bother me, because I am building a new PC shortly and I know the card works but I would like to be able to take it out of its box like :)


Comments

  • #2
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    I cannot offer much advice, except that the exact same problem happened me with a 7000 Radeon.

    Once it booted up, it just frooze, could be a display driver issue, I had to get a new card here on boards. Worked fine in my main rig, just not in the other one, which had all the requirements to run it.

    Strange...but you are not alone. :(


  • #3
    Endurance Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    I have also had this before, faulty card im affraid :( .


  • #4
    HungryJoey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭HungryJoey


    Well what PSU do you have ? you can try Lowering AGP speed to 4x and turning AGP fastwrite's off.

    It may help if you let us know you're system's spec's.

    Hj


  • #5
    daywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭daywalker


    have you got a lot connected to the PSU, ATI recommends a minimum of 300W PSU and since you only have the bare minimum, it could be that when everything in the PC is initialised by windows, the PSU cant give the necessary power.


  • #6
    AdMMM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,472 ✭✭✭AdMMM


    I do have a fair bit running off the PSU, 2 HDD's and 2 Optical drives, however I thought this was the problem so I disconnected one of my HDD's and my two optical drives and still I got nada!

    Specs:

    2000+
    AOpen AK778XN Mobo
    DVD RW + DVD Drive
    75gb HDD and 20gb hdd
    300w psu (Jeantech \o/)

    I don't think it's a faulty card, because it worked perfectly on a different PC I tried it on!


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  • #7
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    Could easily be a driver issue, if you check on Guru3d.com they have plenty of utilities for cleaning out old drivers. You could try running a few of them with the old card in and then try swapping back to the 9800. If that fails it's probably power related, altough Jeantech, while not great aren't bad either.


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