Buiding a pc with PCI express. Just powerd up & the GPU fan doesnt come on!!!

Ideas?!?!?! psu has enough w

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Have you plugged the power leads into the card ?

If so best bet is to check the fan cables are connected to the board and if they are RMA it.

 

For ATi cards you have to plug in one of the 4-pin power plugs off the Power Supply Unit into the side of the card.

 

done all the above. tried a different power lead too. Still 0 life!! so im outta ideas. Its SLI board but its disabled!

650w psu, so adequet power there!

 

does the card need 100% contact? Due to the power build of the case "his choice"!!.

cannot get the GPU 100% in, about 2/3mm off being in at the front of the socket so i can see a little gold on the contacts

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The fan power cable hasn't come out of the 2/3 pin connector on the PCB ?

 

yeah its best to get it all in. which end wont go in, the edge of the M/b side where you screw the holder in place?
Is the PCI-E layout the same as AGP where you loose a PCI slot because of the fat GPU fan?

 

Can usually be resolved by loosening the motherboard screws, and moving the main board until it sits in the right location to allow flush fit of the GPU & PCI cards, then tighten them.

 

a) doesnt fit in without REALLY pushing it in the slot
b) cant get the bit closest to the edge of the case in.

its the actual lip that the PCI cards skrew into. thats whats causing. Issues. Short of cutting that lip off or sending case back ..........?

 

unlucky chap

 

said before this arouse the case build was ****e!

 

just tested outta the case still dead!

 

do you have another pc with pci express to try it on?

could be DOA - which brand

do you actually get an image out ie is the card working and just the fan not

has it booted into the OS and does it have a speed controller for the fan that won't kick in until the care is hot ??

just a few q's

Dave.

 

no to all above.
Its XFX 256mb gt 6800.
Ill try tomorrow with monitor plugged in. cant get to OS not istalled yet

S

 

same problem with it attached.
Voltage is 11.91 so thats good enough

sb

 

does the mb have on board video ?

 

nope ebuyers taking the card back hope it is the card

 

can you borrow another card ?? - phone xfx direct?

 

Super-si,

Something I ended up doing for PCI-E builds was keeping a spare Nvidia 6200 (about 30 quid) to hand (that works), so that if I have problems I can use it to test.

Obviously not a great deal of help, but can help isolate problems, which is useful if you do a lot of system builds for people.

Hope you get it sorted, Alex

 

xfx have said take it too a shop!
ebuyer sending a new card anyway so it that fails ill have to see about going to a shop. This is just a one off luckily!

noticed the pins on the back of the card are strange. What connection are they?

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