Danhill

I just switched my mobo for the Asus P4P800-E Deluxe. Now when I boot up there are small dots and lines appearing on the screen, when I'm in Windows things gets alot worse, everytime I touch the mouse or I open up a program I get more dots and lines and distortion and the screen flickers and after a while the pc reboots, I checked my temps and they are just fine, 48 - GPU 30 PCB, I have the card at 350/1000 just in case.


The strange thing is that if I unistall the the Forceware, the problem is almost gone in Windows, but in the boot screen the problem is still there, I have tried different sets of Forceware, 71.84 and 71.89 both giving the same problem.

So what do you guys think, is it time for a RMA or is it something else??


The card is a Gainward 6800 GT Golden Sample, the rest of my PC is in my sig.

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MOBO: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium CPU: AMD 64 3200+ (Venice) @ 2,50 Ghz MEM: 2 x 512 DDR 466, VGA: 2 x 6600 GT in SLI, HDD1: WD Raptor HDD2: Maxtor Diamond Plus 9, Case: Antec Plus View 1080, PSU: ThermalTake PurePower 500W, MX 1000, Dell 2001 FP, Aud. 2 SZ

daedal

How old is the video card? Ever run into any problems prior?
[EDIT] Did you make sure your video card's fan power cable was plugged into your mobo.. if it runs that way.

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Duranix

check that all the cables are plugged in properly.

make sure that the heat sink is fitted on tightly

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Danhill

Well it was a fault in the card, I just bought a 6600, so I'm will RMA my gainward and hopefully get new one back.

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MOBO: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium CPU: AMD 64 3200+ (Venice) @ 2,50 Ghz MEM: 2 x 512 DDR 466, VGA: 2 x 6600 GT in SLI, HDD1: WD Raptor HDD2: Maxtor Diamond Plus 9, Case: Antec Plus View 1080, PSU: ThermalTake PurePower 500W, MX 1000, Dell 2001 FP, Aud. 2 SZ

Zardon

Gainward quality control is appalling, ive always said that.

Asmoday

Damn, thats sucks Daniel....how about your cpu? Did you get a new one or did your old one work?

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Danhill

Strangely enough it wasn't the cpu either, the cpu worked fine, they tested it and it was no problems, so I went to (JME) again and told them that the mobo was once again defective, they tested it and it worked, I then asked them to test the mobo with my cpu, and voila it didn't work, so they tested 3-4 cpu on it and it worked (both prescott and northwood), the only cpu that didn't work was mine . Anyway, the rolled out 3 different Abit boards, 2 IC7 and one IC7-G with the latest bios and none of them worked with my cpu, the strange thing is that I had my old Abit IC7 mobo with the prescott cpu for about 6 months and it worked perfectly.

So I decided to go with Asus, it works very well, the only downside to it is that I got the I865PE Chipset instead of the I875, but I discovered that PAT can be enabled on this boar as well .

Zardon, I hope at least I get my card back from them

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MOBO: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium CPU: AMD 64 3200+ (Venice) @ 2,50 Ghz MEM: 2 x 512 DDR 466, VGA: 2 x 6600 GT in SLI, HDD1: WD Raptor HDD2: Maxtor Diamond Plus 9, Case: Antec Plus View 1080, PSU: ThermalTake PurePower 500W, MX 1000, Dell 2001 FP, Aud. 2 SZ

CDsDontBurn

sux you lost your ABIT board in all that mess =\.

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