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PC won't boot with graphics card installed
LeedsFan:
I'm stumped with a problem I'm having with a PC case I recently bought. The case is an E4034 eMachines setup. It uses MSI RC410M motherboard with PCIe graphics slot. The PC works fine with the onboard graphics (Radeon Express 200) but it just will not boot up with a graphics card installed in the PCIe slot. I checked the BIOS to make sure the PCIe slot is being set as primary graphics.
The card I am trying is the Radeon HD5570 as it's the only PCIe card I have available. This is working fine in one of my other projects. But I can't even get a post beep from the PC. I've tried uprating the PSU from the original 300W to a 400W but that has made no difference. I doubted this was the problem anyway as this card is praised on using low power and and runs fine from a 250W PSU in the other project.
When I play Star Wars in Mame with onboard graphics the game runs fine at 100%... until you destroy the Death Star. That sequence dropped the speed to 65%ish and the sound goes all horrible. Then the game goes to the next level and is 100% again. But that explosion sequence spoils things as it runs so glitchy. I just wanted to try this card out to see if it fixed it, but so far no luck. :banghead:
boardjunkie:
If the machine won't boot with the card in, its likely the card is bad. Video cards fail, and its a common situation for the machine to not do anything with a bad one. Check the card in a different machine to verify its condition.
If it runs in a different machine, try cleaning the contacts in the pci-e slot, and be sure if theres a seperate pwr connector on the video card that its used.
LeedsFan:
--- Quote from: boardjunkie on June 19, 2011, 11:39:11 am ---If the machine won't boot with the card in, its likely the card is bad. Video cards fail, and its a common situation for the machine to not do anything with a bad one. Check the card in a different machine to verify its condition.
If it runs in a different machine, try cleaning the contacts in the pci-e slot, and be sure if theres a seperate pwr connector on the video card that its used.
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Awww man I've just spent hours looking for solutions to this problem on Google etc. The card is quite new and works perfectly fine in my other machine. The 5570 doesn't have a separate power connector... it gets all it's power from the PCIe slot. I suppose it's possible that dust got into the PCIe slot. There's been no card installed in there at all because the metal plate was still intact on the back panel for PCIe card. How would you clean out the slot though? I can only blow it out I suppose.
I did read that some later PCIe cards have issues with older MBs that only support PCIe 1.0. Maybe I'm just unlucky? I don't wanna buy another card to try this out.
DeLuSioNal29:
Keep in mind that MAME relies mostly on CPU power rather than graphics power. So getting a more powerful graphics card won't help. The stuttering issues will remain.
LeedsFan:
--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on June 19, 2011, 12:23:49 pm ---Keep in mind that MAME relies mostly on CPU power rather than graphics power. So getting a more powerful graphics card won't help. The stuttering issues will remain.
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I know that really... but the sound stuttering on that Death Star stage is really bad and it doesn't do it on my other systems. I just wanted to try and see if it helped as I have the card already.