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Still having problems... GTS450. Need help.

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Sinister_kid

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Some of you may have seen my older threads about the graphics card issues I had been having. Once I got the replacement GTS450 I noticed that the card was not able to "start" based on what hardware manager was telling me in windows. I found to come out that the power supply I was using was short a few amps on the PCI-E rail so I figured that was the problem.

I ordered a corsair cx430 v2 which had more than enough amps on the PCI-E rail. Got it the other day and then threw it in my computer and I'm getting the same exact issue. Green lines once I get into windows, and the card is still unable to start according to windows.

When I was having problems before I went to a local computer store and they said that it may be the memory on the board. I believe that is what they said, they may have been referring to the RAM?

System Specs:
ASUS ROG Crosshair motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+
OCZ Platinum DDR2 800 (2x1gb)
Seagate 200gb SATA HDD
EVGA GTS450
Corsair CX430

Any help is greatly appreciated... I just want to get my computer up and running again :(
 
You can verify the RAM by pulling one stick and booting the pc. If it doesnt change, try the other stick in the same slot. Then try them in the other slot. If problem goes away with changing RAM, then that stick is bad. If it goes away when using another slot, the mobo is bad. If no change, then you may have a PCIe problem. Or you need to wipe out the old drivers and reinstall the new ones. Since you said that device manager showed wrong hardware, I would start with removing all video drivers and re-installing. Plus that is the easiest one. ( for the record, I dont know what you have done before so I apologize if this is old advice)
 
wwischerath said:
You can verify the RAM by pulling one stick and booting the pc. If it doesnt change, try the other stick in the same slot. Then try them in the other slot. If problem goes away with changing RAM, then that stick is bad. If it goes away when using another slot, the mobo is bad. If no change, then you may have a PCIe problem. Or you need to wipe out the old drivers and reinstall the new ones. Since you said that device manager showed wrong hardware, I would start with removing all video drivers and re-installing. Plus that is the easiest one. ( for the record, I dont know what you have done before so I apologize if this is old advice)
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Would that trick with the RAM even work if it's a dual channel kit? I should try the driver wipe, I did not think of that.
 
It seems like its your motherboard. Whether its a hardware or software problem is up to you to find out. If updating bios and drivers doesn't work then try an rma on the mobo. I would also suggest sticking the card in another computer to doublecheck it
 
me and evga support figured out that the card is bad and they are going to send me a new replacement card, as well as test the one they are sending out to me extra to insure that this does not happen again.
 
if a new card doesn't fix the problem, and it's not infact another defective card, then I am going to assume the mobo is bad. Which would really suck.
 
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