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    [SOLVED] Can only boot if I reset the cmos everytime after a new GPU install

    UPDATE: Looking on the sapphire site: http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=EA78A741-232C-4399-B5A5-F99068D659F0&lang=eng It says on all their products from the last 6/7years which are pci-e 2.0/3.0 that it needs a minimum of pci-e 2.0 to run at the bottom of the specs even an old...
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    [SOLVED] Can only boot if I reset the cmos everytime after a new GPU install

    Yeah its a legit Sapphire one. Wouldnt want one otherwise. On bootup: bios id: 11 (2007) so I guess its not the latest one as they are from 2008. Could make a difference, but am well reluctant to flash the bios, especially seeing as something odd is going on possibly with the mobo and then I'm...
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    [SOLVED] Can only boot if I reset the cmos everytime after a new GPU install

    It’s the low power small sized one 75watts
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    [SOLVED] Can only boot if I reset the cmos everytime after a new GPU install

    Sapphire . Isn’t the model r7 250?
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    [SOLVED] Can only boot if I reset the cmos everytime after a new GPU install

    The guy in their ordered it from a supplier, so who knows. I also could only see used ones for sale
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    [SOLVED] Can only boot if I reset the cmos everytime after a new GPU install

    It did, havent tried the 7800 again. I'm not in the UK (or USA) atm, I am abroad, and so got it in a local pc shop, i wondered the same thing , the 260 is the later one, it didnt look used though but hard to tell. however it runs fine first boot, im on it now and its ok, not benched it or...
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    [SOLVED] Can only boot if I reset the cmos everytime after a new GPU install

    Hi well I cant tell because it never boots a second time, only boots when I take out the battery and so it is 100% reset to defaults then. Also tried a brand new battery same thing. Although one time it did it, no second boot still, but I let the pc sit off for awhile (10 minutes and unplugged...
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    [SOLVED] Can only boot if I reset the cmos everytime after a new GPU install

    Ain't been on here or in the PC scene the last few years. I've got an old Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz cpu @ 3.0Ghz OC on an Abit IP35-E motherboard 775 plus a ATI 3850HD 512MB which recently died so I went and got a old 7800GT to bung in it for awhile, did the trick but now I have just bought and...