mrmylanman
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Hey guys,
I have had this motherboard (Biostar TPower X58) since January, and for the most part it has given me no issues, except for when I tried to do SLI on it.
I have two XFX GTX260s and one turned out to be defective. The computer would blue screen or refuse to boot (depending on the OS), until I removed the one card from the equation.
I returned that card and got another one, and for a couple months there was no problem. Now, it seems like it is doing the same thing again. I would like to think that my video card is not the problem (again) and I actually don't think that's the case. I tried taking one card out, taking the other card out, and swapping PCI-e slots, all combinations failed the same way (blue screen in Win XP). The interesting thing is that in VGA mode the computer will not crash. However, when I removed the nVidia drivers and tried to boot like normal, it blue screens still.
Can anyone make sense of any of this?
Since I tried all the combinations possible with the two cards (including just one installed on either slot), I am not so sure if it is the video cards that are flailing. Althouh the fact that it works fine in VGA mode seems to indicate otherwise...
Oh by the way I have had issues in Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora I have tried) and Windows XP.
I have had this motherboard (Biostar TPower X58) since January, and for the most part it has given me no issues, except for when I tried to do SLI on it.
I have two XFX GTX260s and one turned out to be defective. The computer would blue screen or refuse to boot (depending on the OS), until I removed the one card from the equation.
I returned that card and got another one, and for a couple months there was no problem. Now, it seems like it is doing the same thing again. I would like to think that my video card is not the problem (again) and I actually don't think that's the case. I tried taking one card out, taking the other card out, and swapping PCI-e slots, all combinations failed the same way (blue screen in Win XP). The interesting thing is that in VGA mode the computer will not crash. However, when I removed the nVidia drivers and tried to boot like normal, it blue screens still.
Can anyone make sense of any of this?
Since I tried all the combinations possible with the two cards (including just one installed on either slot), I am not so sure if it is the video cards that are flailing. Althouh the fact that it works fine in VGA mode seems to indicate otherwise...
Oh by the way I have had issues in Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora I have tried) and Windows XP.