When I’ve bought motherboards before, the manual are no help at all. I end up searching the web.
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, at 20:57, Michael Butash wrote: > I've thought the same until after various fiddling with stupid n-by-x power > connections of different form-factors of power/mobo/gpu - it's just some damn > formula I never figured out. Last 2 mobo's and gpu's I've had to fiddle with > both 6 or 8 pin to make work on my gpu/mobo, once it works I rather forget > being few/far between and curse having to fiddle in the first place. > > YMMV here is all I'm declaring, either way it's quirky. Don't trust the > motherboard power. Thank vendor wars. > > -mb > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 8:48 PM Harold Hartley <[email protected]> wrote: > > __ > > I’m starting to think that you may have a bad motherboard. > > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, at 20:30, Michael Butash wrote: > >> I've had issues trying to power a gpu and get display with the 6 vs. 8 pin > >> connector. Or both, just for functionality's sake. Need to figure out > >> which standard they want/prefer. AMD vs. Nvidia. > >> > >> One or the other, I've ended up with 1x of either as workable, not both, > >> not the wrong one (which ever that is), and then all tends to be right > >> with boot. > >> > >> It seemed always yet another amd vs nvidia thing which to connect, but > >> almost any time in the past 10 years I've need a psu that supported the > >> 6/8 pin power connector explicitly. Expect the pcie power to > >> fail/glitch/piss-you-off - use external power supply, and a beefy psu at > >> that for any/all that gpu of power. > >> > >> -mb > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 6:09 PM Adam Mercer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 9:59 AM Stephen Partington > >> > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > > The PCI-express spec has a limit on the power draw it can allow for a > >> > > GPU If it takes more than that it has extra power connectors. That > >> > > might be a good check. make sure you don't have a connector not > >> > > connected on your GPU. and/or try power on without a GPU connected. > >> > > (if there is no video at least you will get power up and beeps. > >> > > >> > Same behaviour with and without the GPU connected, i.e. nothing... The > >> > GPU has an 8 and 6 pin power connector and both were connected when I > >> > tried with it connected. > >> > > >> > Cheers > >> > > >> > Adam > >> > --------------------------------------------------- > >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > > Harold Hartley > > 17632 N. 5th place > > Phoenix, AZ 85022 > > [email protected] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Harold Hartley 17632 N. 5th place Phoenix, AZ 85022 [email protected]
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