From bad to worse to disaster

jasper1605 · Dec 10, 2012, 07:54 PM

This has not been a good 5 hours.
Had a working copy of Windows 8 last night.
This morning it says the installation failed so I need to reinstall.
Reinstall failed saying the same thing.
Was going to just put 7 back on.
Gpu failed to post with the msi 790 fx board getting stuck on 2a
Restarted a few times and now the cpu won't post and stuck on ff. Any thoughts?

Specs:
965x4
Msi 790fx GDP70
Vision tek 7950 2gb
4gb amd black edition ram
Wd black hd

I'm at a complete loss of what to do.
I've taken everything out, reseated the cpu, removed the cmos battery. Completely stumped and I have no access to a secondary board or cpu to check those.

brandonwh64 · Dec 10, 2012, 07:58 PM

Do you have another GPU to test? Also test the RAM and HDD in another machine if possible.

jasper1605 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:01 PM

Gpu and ram are both good. Didn't think to check hdd. Won't be able to til tonight now when my backup returns lol.

brandonwh64 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:04 PM

The older MSI may have finally given up on you. Keep playing around with it by clearing the cmos for longer peroids and testing it with only GPU installed.

jasper1605 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:06 PM

Hopefully that's not the case. Though I'm fully prepared to go to war against this. Thanks for the tips

3870x2 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:09 PM

It is interesting to note you have a 6 year old GPU.

All jokes aside, looks like power supply. Do you have another you can test with?

OnePostWonder · Dec 10, 2012, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3870x2

It is interesting to note you have a 6 year old GPU.

All jokes aside, looks like power supply. Do you have another you can test with?

I don't get the joke.

jasper1605 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:16 PM

Power supply was tested a few days ago for another machine and it worked as well

Edit: I'm finally into being able to reinstall windows 7 so I'll be doing that and hope and pray that everything goes properly. If I can get there then I can at least do a few more tests that I'm familiar with.

brandonwh64 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OnePostWonder

I don't get the joke.

Reminds us of the old Geforece 7950 256MB

3870x2 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OnePostWonder

I don't get the joke.

Maybe you were a youngen back then, but in 2006 NVidia had a 7950 GT / GTX

jasper1605 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:22 PM

My apologies. It is an amd. I missed the joke as well but I'm glad it's not the nvidia relic haha.

OnePostWonder · Dec 10, 2012, 08:24 PM

I thought that was maybe what you meant (and though I may have been young, I was old enough to be capable of long-term memory).

I didn't get it because...well...Visiontek hasn't done anything GeForce in a long time, and when they did, I don't remember it being anything particularly notable. I think there are other reasons too, but for now, this is appropriate.

Also the fact that it says 2gb of memory.

3870x2 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jasper1605

My apologies. It is an amd. I missed the joke as well but I'm glad it's not the nvidia relic haha.

relic

There was a time that I could only afford the 7900GS, and I would salivate over the 7950GTX or GX2. Before that I had an x1300, and before that an x200 integrated, a 9800PRO, and an ATI 7500, and VIA integrated.

The world gets itself in a big damned hurry.

OnePostWonder · Dec 10, 2012, 08:30 PM

I remember when my dad upgraded his motherboard and it included the X200 Express. The first game I played on that was Half-Life 2 because it came as a voucher with the processor he bought I believe.

Framerates weren't good, so I think I got as far as dropping down the mineshaft into all the headcrabs before I gave it a rest.

3870x2 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:32 PM

my x200 did a pretty good job, I think I just about maxed it out (no AA or AF) at 1024x768 on my new LCD (that was pretty good graphics for 2004.)

brandonwh64 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OnePostWonder

I remember when my dad upgraded his motherboard and it included the X200 Express. The first game I played on that was Half-Life 2 because it came as a voucher with the processor he bought I believe.

Framerates weren't good, so I think I got as far as dropping down the mineshaft into all the headcrabs before I gave it a rest.

AWWW you missed HL1 with a VooDoo 3 2000!

3870x2 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:37 PM

Me and a buddy had to install a voodoo2 before we could play darkstone or omikron: the nomad soul, forget which one. Worked like a charm and made some other games run faster, like Total War: Kingdoms. We could also use advanced graphics options in some games. FFVii and FFViii ran faster, and had more options available to us.

To OP: are you going to be able to test with another PSU? even borrowed would be helpful.

brandonwh64 · Dec 10, 2012, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3870x2

Me and a buddy had to install a voodoo2 before we could play darkstone or omikron: the nomad soul, forget which one.

I remember as tweaked as I could get it HL1 to get decent frames on the voodoo 3 2000

OnePostWonder · Dec 10, 2012, 08:39 PM

I suppose I could give an idea as to how old am I. I was quite young at the time, but the first computer I ever used had something like a 32mhz processor.

Frick · Dec 10, 2012, 09:25 PM

i thought about this:

That is all.

jasper1605 · Dec 11, 2012, 01:19 PM

Issue resolved.
Turns out the Gpu was doa and was causing nonstop issues with everything else.

Moral of the story? Always bring spare parts when building a computer.

brandonwh64 · Dec 11, 2012, 01:21 PM

Awww. can you RMA the card?

TheMailMan78 · Dec 11, 2012, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frick

i thought about this:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/success.png

That is all.

Thats like a slide show of my life.

brandonwh64 · Dec 11, 2012, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheMailMan78

Thats like a slide show of my life.

Is that the part of your life when a virus or crappy PSU is mentioned?

jasper1605 · Dec 11, 2012, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brandonwh64

Awww. can you RMA the card?

Yep still able to do an amazon exchange. I put the exchange order in before I could confirm it because I had some suspicions even when it was first running win8. Furmark had some mad screen tearing but I figured it was the driver because I hadn't installed it due to forgetting then lack of time.
Much happier to have a working 5850 in it now til the replacement arrives

Dec 10, 2012, 07:54 PM	#1
jasper1605 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,178 (0.89/day) Thanks: 356 Thanked 228 Times in 191 Posts System Specs	From bad to worse to disaster This has not been a good 5 hours. Had a working copy of Windows 8 last night. This morning it says the installation failed so I need to reinstall. Reinstall failed saying the same thing. Was going to just put 7 back on. Gpu failed to post with the msi 790 fx board getting stuck on 2a Restarted a few times and now the cpu won't post and stuck on ff. Any thoughts? Specs: 965x4 Msi 790fx GDP70 Vision tek 7950 2gb 4gb amd black edition ram Wd black hd I'm at a complete loss of what to do. I've taken everything out, reseated the cpu, removed the cmos battery. Completely stumped and I have no access to a secondary board or cpu to check those. __________________ 1 in 8 people in the world do not have access to clean water. 20 Liters is trying to do something to change 750,000,000 people's lives. Click to help - Love life and live a life of love - If you would like prayer for anything going on in your life or someone else's send me a PM My Heat 11-0-0 My Sig Rig Pics -Updated 11/1/10 TPU Eyefinity Club

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Dec 10, 2012, 07:58 PM	#2
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Dec 10, 2012, 08:01 PM	#3
jasper1605 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,178 (0.89/day) Thanks: 356 Thanked 228 Times in 191 Posts System Specs	Gpu and ram are both good. Didn't think to check hdd. Won't be able to til tonight now when my backup returns lol. __________________ 1 in 8 people in the world do not have access to clean water. 20 Liters is trying to do something to change 750,000,000 people's lives. Click to help - Love life and live a life of love - If you would like prayer for anything going on in your life or someone else's send me a PM My Heat 11-0-0 My Sig Rig Pics -Updated 11/1/10 TPU Eyefinity Club

Dec 10, 2012, 08:04 PM	#4
brandonwh64 Addicted to Bacon and StarCrunches!!! Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Chatsworth, GA Posts: 13,667 (9.89/day) Thanks: 2,165 Thanked 5,382 Times in 3,729 Posts System Specs	The older MSI may have finally given up on you. Keep playing around with it by clearing the cmos for longer peroids and testing it with only GPU installed. __________________ Cruncher's: All GPU's GPU's: 7970 3GB = 8 Threads 5770 1GB OCed = 2 Threads

Dec 10, 2012, 08:06 PM	#5
jasper1605 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,178 (0.89/day) Thanks: 356 Thanked 228 Times in 191 Posts System Specs	Hopefully that's not the case. Though I'm fully prepared to go to war against this. Thanks for the tips __________________ 1 in 8 people in the world do not have access to clean water. 20 Liters is trying to do something to change 750,000,000 people's lives. Click to help - Love life and live a life of love - If you would like prayer for anything going on in your life or someone else's send me a PM My Heat 11-0-0 My Sig Rig Pics -Updated 11/1/10 TPU Eyefinity Club

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Dec 10, 2012, 08:16 PM	#8
jasper1605 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,178 (0.89/day) Thanks: 356 Thanked 228 Times in 191 Posts System Specs	Power supply was tested a few days ago for another machine and it worked as well Edit: I'm finally into being able to reinstall windows 7 so I'll be doing that and hope and pray that everything goes properly. If I can get there then I can at least do a few more tests that I'm familiar with. __________________ 1 in 8 people in the world do not have access to clean water. 20 Liters is trying to do something to change 750,000,000 people's lives. Click to help - Love life and live a life of love - If you would like prayer for anything going on in your life or someone else's send me a PM My Heat 11-0-0 My Sig Rig Pics -Updated 11/1/10 TPU Eyefinity Club

Dec 10, 2012, 08:22 PM	#11
jasper1605 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,178 (0.89/day) Thanks: 356 Thanked 228 Times in 191 Posts System Specs	My apologies. It is an amd. I missed the joke as well but I'm glad it's not the nvidia relic haha. __________________ 1 in 8 people in the world do not have access to clean water. 20 Liters is trying to do something to change 750,000,000 people's lives. Click to help - Love life and live a life of love - If you would like prayer for anything going on in your life or someone else's send me a PM My Heat 11-0-0 My Sig Rig Pics -Updated 11/1/10 TPU Eyefinity Club

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OnePostWonder Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 491 (0.30/day) Thanks: 61 Thanked 90 Times in 71 Posts System Specs	I thought that was maybe what you meant (and though I may have been young, I was old enough to be capable of long-term memory). I didn't get it because...well...Visiontek hasn't done anything GeForce in a long time, and when they did, I don't remember it being anything particularly notable. I think there are other reasons too, but for now, this is appropriate. Also the fact that it says 2gb of memory. Last edited by OnePostWonder; Dec 10, 2012 at 08:25 PM. Reason: See above

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OnePostWonder Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 491 (0.30/day) Thanks: 61 Thanked 90 Times in 71 Posts System Specs	I remember when my dad upgraded his motherboard and it included the X200 Express. The first game I played on that was Half-Life 2 because it came as a voucher with the processor he bought I believe. Framerates weren't good, so I think I got as far as dropping down the mineshaft into all the headcrabs before I gave it a rest.

Dec 10, 2012, 08:32 PM	#15
3870x2 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Joplin, Mo Posts: 4,549 (2.35/day) Thanks: 176 Thanked 692 Times in 558 Posts System Specs	my x200 did a pretty good job, I think I just about maxed it out (no AA or AF) at 1024x768 on my new LCD (that was pretty good graphics for 2004.) __________________ A+, N+, S+, MCSE. Heatware STEAM ID Name: furi0nst0rmrage (0s are zeros) M O D E R N\|\|W A R F A R E \|\| 2 \|\| CLUBHOUSE // TEAM “The amount exaltation of the processor cores can brings amazing floating” -sparkle

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3870x2 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Joplin, Mo Posts: 4,549 (2.35/day) Thanks: 176 Thanked 692 Times in 558 Posts System Specs	Me and a buddy had to install a voodoo2 before we could play darkstone or omikron: the nomad soul, forget which one. Worked like a charm and made some other games run faster, like Total War: Kingdoms. We could also use advanced graphics options in some games. FFVii and FFViii ran faster, and had more options available to us. To OP: are you going to be able to test with another PSU? even borrowed would be helpful. __________________ A+, N+, S+, MCSE. Heatware STEAM ID Name: furi0nst0rmrage (0s are zeros) M O D E R N\|\|W A R F A R E \|\| 2 \|\| CLUBHOUSE // TEAM “The amount exaltation of the processor cores can brings amazing floating” -sparkle

Dec 10, 2012, 08:39 PM	#19
OnePostWonder Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 491 (0.30/day) Thanks: 61 Thanked 90 Times in 71 Posts System Specs	I suppose I could give an idea as to how old am I. I was quite young at the time, but the first computer I ever used had something like a 32mhz processor.

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Dec 11, 2012, 01:19 PM	#21
jasper1605 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,178 (0.89/day) Thanks: 356 Thanked 228 Times in 191 Posts System Specs	Issue resolved. Turns out the Gpu was doa and was causing nonstop issues with everything else. Moral of the story? Always bring spare parts when building a computer. __________________ 1 in 8 people in the world do not have access to clean water. 20 Liters is trying to do something to change 750,000,000 people's lives. Click to help - Love life and live a life of love - If you would like prayer for anything going on in your life or someone else's send me a PM My Heat 11-0-0 My Sig Rig Pics -Updated 11/1/10 TPU Eyefinity Club

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