4870 Troubles.
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:41 pm
I could really use some help with this one. I bought a new rig a few months back and I have been having troubles with my GeCube 4870 from the get go. It seems to blue screen upon booting occasoinally and if it doesnt blue screen I will get really ugly artificating which I can't tell will happen unless I actually run a game.
The other problem I am having as well is occasoinally after boot up I will loose all image feed and be presented with a black screen, which I think is because I am running HDMI to DVI as my monitor does not have a DVI port. I did try using D-SUB to DVI (with the male end of the D-Sub connector in a DVI dongle) and I had no image drop out what so ever but the image quality looked poor compared to HDMI to DvI. I have also tried using the HDMI to DVI dongle provided with the graphics card but the graphics card didnt seem to recognise that it was there and kept defaulting my resolution.
I am also unable to use Vista (the only avaliable copy I had at the time is 32 bit as the store that sold it to me are complete idiots even though I asked for 4 gigs of ram AND 64 Bit Vista)
at all due to it blue screening every time the catalyst drivers were installed and so I had to switch back to Windows XP which atleast will boot up.
So anyway I am really strapped for ideas as to what is the problem, I thought it was power so I bought an 850 watt PSU and as much as that helped I still am having the same problems even with the latest Catalyst Drivers ><. We also tried the RAM in another machine and that worked fine and we tried other RAM in my machine and that worked fine to.
The other problem I am having as well is occasoinally after boot up I will loose all image feed and be presented with a black screen, which I think is because I am running HDMI to DVI as my monitor does not have a DVI port. I did try using D-SUB to DVI (with the male end of the D-Sub connector in a DVI dongle) and I had no image drop out what so ever but the image quality looked poor compared to HDMI to DvI. I have also tried using the HDMI to DVI dongle provided with the graphics card but the graphics card didnt seem to recognise that it was there and kept defaulting my resolution.
I am also unable to use Vista (the only avaliable copy I had at the time is 32 bit as the store that sold it to me are complete idiots even though I asked for 4 gigs of ram AND 64 Bit Vista)
at all due to it blue screening every time the catalyst drivers were installed and so I had to switch back to Windows XP which atleast will boot up.
So anyway I am really strapped for ideas as to what is the problem, I thought it was power so I bought an 850 watt PSU and as much as that helped I still am having the same problems even with the latest Catalyst Drivers ><. We also tried the RAM in another machine and that worked fine and we tried other RAM in my machine and that worked fine to.