- Dec 25, 2000
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I've just recently put together a new system. The components are:
OCZ 700w power supply
5400+ BE
Visiontek 4870
2x2gb OCZ Reaper
750gb Samsung
Asus M3A78 Pro
I've had the system on for a couple of days with the normal reboots for various things. I left it on all night last night and I used it before bed and it was fine. I haven't done the profile fan fix because I never could get it to work correctly. My card was idling at around 77c and load was around 81c or a bit above. This morning I was typing and the monitor loses signal and goes from Digital to Analog and keeps repeating. I thought it was odd so I restarted. After restart.....nothing on the screen. If I leave the computer off for a couple of minutes, it will post and get into windows. My time in Windows is very limited before it loses signal again. I downloaded Expertool and thought that the card might be overheating so I set it on the fixed fan speed of 50%. After a few minutes, I hear the card spin down and there goes the monitor signal again. I'm running Cat. 8.8 too btw. Is there something that I'm doing wrong or do I have a flaky card? I'm up for ideas at this point and any and all would be appreciated.
jc
*UPDATE*
It seems that there are quite a few people with similar cards (4850/4870) that have varying degrees of losing signal on their monitors. Some of them have managed to use VGA instead of DVI but that hasn't worked for me. Also, there are 4 small LED lights on the back of the card. These apparently are diagnostic in nature. According to a guy named Spyral on the AMD Game Forums the lights stand for the following
LED 1601 - Critical Temperature Fault
LED 601 - Critical Core Power Fault
LED 1602 - Power Connector A was removed
LED 1603 - Power Connector B was removed
The actual order of the LEDs is
1602
601
1601
1603
On my card when I boot up the system 1602, 1601, and 1603 are all lit. All of the pcie connectors are plugged in and plugged in correctly. This is what makes me unsure if it's actually the card or if the power supply isn't giving off enough juice. The main thing I've noticed now is that the system will output any signal at all when I turn it on. I tried using one of the VGA adapters on the card and using VGA on my LCD and that doesn't work either. I'm figuring that I'm going to have to RMA something.....but I don't know whether it's the Power Supply or the 4870. :S
*UPDATE #2*
Came home from work and thought I'd try the system just to see what would happen. Everything booted up perfectly fine.....power LED is on front of the case and the hd light it working and there were NO LEDs on the back of the card. So for now it's working again so it must be some kind of software trouble I suppose. I don't understand it at all but I guess I'll go with the flow for now.
OCZ 700w power supply
5400+ BE
Visiontek 4870
2x2gb OCZ Reaper
750gb Samsung
Asus M3A78 Pro
I've had the system on for a couple of days with the normal reboots for various things. I left it on all night last night and I used it before bed and it was fine. I haven't done the profile fan fix because I never could get it to work correctly. My card was idling at around 77c and load was around 81c or a bit above. This morning I was typing and the monitor loses signal and goes from Digital to Analog and keeps repeating. I thought it was odd so I restarted. After restart.....nothing on the screen. If I leave the computer off for a couple of minutes, it will post and get into windows. My time in Windows is very limited before it loses signal again. I downloaded Expertool and thought that the card might be overheating so I set it on the fixed fan speed of 50%. After a few minutes, I hear the card spin down and there goes the monitor signal again. I'm running Cat. 8.8 too btw. Is there something that I'm doing wrong or do I have a flaky card? I'm up for ideas at this point and any and all would be appreciated.
jc
*UPDATE*
It seems that there are quite a few people with similar cards (4850/4870) that have varying degrees of losing signal on their monitors. Some of them have managed to use VGA instead of DVI but that hasn't worked for me. Also, there are 4 small LED lights on the back of the card. These apparently are diagnostic in nature. According to a guy named Spyral on the AMD Game Forums the lights stand for the following
LED 1601 - Critical Temperature Fault
LED 601 - Critical Core Power Fault
LED 1602 - Power Connector A was removed
LED 1603 - Power Connector B was removed
The actual order of the LEDs is
1602
601
1601
1603
On my card when I boot up the system 1602, 1601, and 1603 are all lit. All of the pcie connectors are plugged in and plugged in correctly. This is what makes me unsure if it's actually the card or if the power supply isn't giving off enough juice. The main thing I've noticed now is that the system will output any signal at all when I turn it on. I tried using one of the VGA adapters on the card and using VGA on my LCD and that doesn't work either. I'm figuring that I'm going to have to RMA something.....but I don't know whether it's the Power Supply or the 4870. :S
*UPDATE #2*
Came home from work and thought I'd try the system just to see what would happen. Everything booted up perfectly fine.....power LED is on front of the case and the hd light it working and there were NO LEDs on the back of the card. So for now it's working again so it must be some kind of software trouble I suppose. I don't understand it at all but I guess I'll go with the flow for now.