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Disclaimer: please don't close because in your opinion it's wrong section, I suspect it's not.
I'll try to be as detailed as I can, to see if I can get the answer I need.
Original rig
Asrock H61M-S
i5-2500k@stock
Sapphire HD6870
Kingston Hyper-X 2x4
PSU -> OCZ ModXStream 550w (dead) -> MS-Tech 920W ATX (yeah well, don't think it was even close to 700w but)
Going fine for three years and a half, then on September I start getting
"Display driver has stopped working and has recovered"
After three days, I take out the card to clean it better. The card never worked in that slot since, it powers up no problem, but no post. I send the card to a store to have it checked and they claim it boots fine for them, meanwhile I try some more cards, both more power hungry (gtx275) and much weaker (2600xt) ones and no result. The only time the slot worked was the 2600, but it only did in vga mode, it brought me to the desktop, and it lasted few minutes after which it crashed and I never got it to work again.
I noticed when I installed the hungrier cards PSU got some static (like when you suddenly get shocked while touching some handrail) and since I had never overclocked (H61) I sell my old mobo for few bucks and proceed to replace both it and the psu. New config
Asus Z77-A
i5-2500k@stock
Sapphire HD6870
Kingstom Hyper-X 2x4
Thermaltake Berlin 630w
No post from slot 1, no matter what kind of setting I turned on and off in the bios. I updated bios to the last version, I checked ram, vram and hard disk, I breadboarded, reinstalled the whole rig from scratch, resetted and tried other gpu, over 30-40 tries and the only time the card reacted it did in VGA mode, as soon as I rebooted the card stopped working again. Pointless to say I reinstalled windows and all of that stuff, if it doesn't post I think it doesn't have anything to do with drivers anyway.
The thing is the card now works fine in slot 2, no issues, passmark detects some decent results (2300ish out of 2500-2600 average, I guess it's the x4 pci speed decay) but it doesn't want to have anything to do with the primary pci-e slot. In this very moment I have the 275 installed because I sent the 6870 out for checking one more time. Nonetheless, my question
Should I consider myself unlucky I got a dud replacement or should I consider myself screwed because something is wrong with my cpu? I can't tell because other than that "small" issue with pci-e primary slot, everything has always been fine.
Disclaimer: please don't close because in your opinion it's wrong section, I suspect it's not.
I'll try to be as detailed as I can, to see if I can get the answer I need.
Original rig
Asrock H61M-S
i5-2500k@stock
Sapphire HD6870
Kingston Hyper-X 2x4
PSU -> OCZ ModXStream 550w (dead) -> MS-Tech 920W ATX (yeah well, don't think it was even close to 700w but)
Going fine for three years and a half, then on September I start getting
"Display driver has stopped working and has recovered"
After three days, I take out the card to clean it better. The card never worked in that slot since, it powers up no problem, but no post. I send the card to a store to have it checked and they claim it boots fine for them, meanwhile I try some more cards, both more power hungry (gtx275) and much weaker (2600xt) ones and no result. The only time the slot worked was the 2600, but it only did in vga mode, it brought me to the desktop, and it lasted few minutes after which it crashed and I never got it to work again.
I noticed when I installed the hungrier cards PSU got some static (like when you suddenly get shocked while touching some handrail) and since I had never overclocked (H61) I sell my old mobo for few bucks and proceed to replace both it and the psu. New config
Asus Z77-A
i5-2500k@stock
Sapphire HD6870
Kingstom Hyper-X 2x4
Thermaltake Berlin 630w
No post from slot 1, no matter what kind of setting I turned on and off in the bios. I updated bios to the last version, I checked ram, vram and hard disk, I breadboarded, reinstalled the whole rig from scratch, resetted and tried other gpu, over 30-40 tries and the only time the card reacted it did in VGA mode, as soon as I rebooted the card stopped working again. Pointless to say I reinstalled windows and all of that stuff, if it doesn't post I think it doesn't have anything to do with drivers anyway.
The thing is the card now works fine in slot 2, no issues, passmark detects some decent results (2300ish out of 2500-2600 average, I guess it's the x4 pci speed decay) but it doesn't want to have anything to do with the primary pci-e slot. In this very moment I have the 275 installed because I sent the 6870 out for checking one more time. Nonetheless, my question
Should I consider myself unlucky I got a dud replacement or should I consider myself screwed because something is wrong with my cpu? I can't tell because other than that "small" issue with pci-e primary slot, everything has always been fine.
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