Recent content by btothaw

I coudln't get the back plate to fit on the motherboard.

I know this is an old thread, but I actually had this exact problem. I found it amusing that you were upgrading to the same card I am upgrading to, using the same motherboard as me, and your old card is the same card I am replacing. I tried different slots, but what finally worked for me was...

Yeah it sucks, since the card is only like 3 years old and it was pretty expensive. Oh well.. I guess that's just life. Thanks for the help!

Actually I'm just a retard. It did say 8 GBs, but in parenthesis it has (2x4GB) and clarifies 4096 MBs. When I first looked at it I guess I didn't look closely enough. Sorry to waste everyone's time!

4096 MB for each slot, so 2 sticks of 4 GB. Even though it says 8GB on each stick of RAM.

CPU-Z says I have 8GB

It has been so long since I bought the RAM that I can't even remember how much I originally intended to purchase anymore, but ShadeTree might be right. Each stick says "8GB" on them individually, but looking up the product code comes up with that web page that says it's an 8GB "kit." I still...

So I finally was able to get in touch with one of my friends who let me try my graphics card in his computer. The same problem happened in his machine that happened in mine. I just bought a new card and I will be installing it later today.

I just noticed recently when I looked at my computer's properties that I only have 8GBs of RAM. I'm not sure why the other half is missing, but I know for a fact I have two separate 8GB sticks of RAM installed (It says 8GB's right on the RAM). Here's the exact RAM...

I finished the catalyst driver install, rebooted, and this time when I tried to login not only did it freeze up, but I hard a soft buzzing sound coming from the speakers. Is this indicative of hardware failure and if so, do you think it is the GPU or the PSU?

I hadn't installed the card specific drivers at that point. I'm actually in the process of doing that now. However, I should note again that this problem got incrementally worse over time. Originally my computer would only freeze up when I tried to play Starcraft2 or League of Legends. Then...

Well today I formatted my hard drive and I reinstalled Windows. Everything seemed to be going smooth until after I finished with windows update and restarted. I could tell at that point that it had detected my card, because it changed my screen resolution. I saw a few of the horizontal lines at...

I actually built this computer myself, with the help of a good friend of mine, so unfortunately it doesn't have a hidden partition on it. I'll continue trying to find someone who can help me get the OS. I've taken this thing apart about a million times and I did try to use recovery mode to go...

I appreciate all the help man. I actually have already tried resetting the bios and switching RAM memory slots (if that's what you mean). Unfortunately I don't have the capability of doing a clean install. I've been trying to fish around for a Windows 7 OS from people I know. Today I managed to...

I only have one hard drive currently. I'm working on a way to swap out hardware to see if I can isolate the problem that way. Unfortunately this isn't going to be easy for me to do or I would have already tried it.