On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 5:29 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > | From: Nicholas Krause via talk <[email protected]> > > | On 12/4/19 8:52 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > | > Nvidia card and the system is working just fine. Tried the Radeon > | > RX570 again this time only plugging in 1 monitor - - - - the gpu light > | > do come on but I can't tell if much further is happening. > > | Do you get any beeps or a post screen as that would be the first thing? If > | you get beeps or a gpu light check the motherboard manual to see if the > | board is giving a error. LEDS sometimes signal a post error on modern > | boards. > > Good questions. > > o1bigtenor: the normal way of showing a POST is running is the > display. If the display isn't displaying anything, it is hard to tell > whether the POST is running.
I hope that my indicating that nothing would post didn't imply anything beyond that the display showed nothing! > > Perhaps the GPU card requires more power than your power supply > provides. In particular, over the years, the balance has changed > between the amounts of power used at each supply voltage. > > Older power supplies didn't even have the right leads for the bonus > power connectors on modern video cards. > > I put a RX570 in an old box (Haswell generation) and I had to replace > the power supply to do so. > > Your motherboard suggests that your system was even older: Sandy Bridge > generation. > > Did your power supply have a lead with a 6-pin connector for the power > input on the RX570? Was it capable of supplying 120W? > > Very unreliable information from the web: > GTX570 213W > RX570 is rated at 150W > These are so unreliable as to be useless. Hmmmmmmmmm as I had 3 of the GTX570s in the box for about 7 years I think that there would be enough power - - - - I have a 1200W PSU. > > | > I called my > | > purchase point and they requested I send it back to them. They are now > | > telling me that the card is working well on their M$ test machine. > > That would be consistent with a power supply problem. And many other > problems :-( > > If you cannot make out beep codes, your could try something like this: > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POST_card> > They ought to be inexpensive. True - - - - system is working right now with the previous singleton graphics card left. > > ====================== > > Your motherboard can support PCIe 3.0 but may require a BIOS > (firmware) update to do so: > > <https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/P9X79/> Good point - - - I need to check what bios version i'm running - - - - I think it was the one where PCI3.0 support had been rolled in. Thanks for the ideas!! Pace --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
