I recently bought Windows 7 and a 5850 cos I want to play games in shiny DX11 O-Vision, but I've been unable to get the card to output anything.
I got an XFX one after sending back a Powercolor version of the same model, thinking it was faulty (Ebuyer didn't send it back so I'm assuming it was actually faulty). Now this card doesn't do anything either. The motherboard's an ASUS M3N-72 D and from what little I can find on the problem, they seem to have trouble with Radeon cards. I've read about maybe needing to update my BIOS settings, or drivers or something, possibly with this but I've never had to do that before and don't want to mess anything up. Anyone have any ideas to fix the problem?
I'm not sure if it's relevant but the fan on the card is working. I've also got enough RAM and my PSU is powerful enough, so I don't know what else it could be. I sincerely doubt it's another faulty card.
From: Jim (BOBBLE_HAT) [#3] 24 May 0:20 To: Dark King (DARKKING) [#2] 24 May 4:49
The enclosed disc led me to the XFX website, which doesn't seem to have any on. So I got them off the ATI site. The installer didn't recognise that I had a card plugged in.
From: pignoli [#5] 24 May 8:43 To: Jim (BOBBLE_HAT) [#1] 24 May 9:44
First thing I'd do is check it in the other PCI Express slot, as it's an SLI motherboard. Just to eliminate the possibility of something wrong with that particular slot.
From: Jim (BOBBLE_HAT) [#6] 24 May 10:22 To: pignoli [#5] 24 May 19:02
Yeah that's sorted it, it's the slot. Odd, as my old 8800 worked fine in it. Only thing now is as the PSU is on the bottom of the case the PSU fan and card fan are very close together. I wasn't sure if that'd be a problem with overheating or anything.
Now I'll have to get another motherboard if I want to run two cards, but I'll worry about that when I come to it.