NAVI_Z
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System Name | Gamer Rig |
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Processor | AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE |
Motherboard | ASUS M4A78T-E |
Cooling | Corsair H-50 cpu cooler.Kingston Hyper X ram cooler |
Memory | Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 |
Video Card(s) | XFX HD 5870 XXX Edition |
Storage | WD Velociraptor 300gig ; SAmsung Spinpoint 250gig |
Display(s) | Samsung SyncMaster 2494 24 inch full 1080p |
Case | NZXT TEMPEST AIRFLOW KING |
Audio Device(s) | none |
Power Supply | Kingwin 800w modular |
Software | Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit |
hey folks.hows everyone doin 2day? I've got a little dilema.I just picked up a shiney new XFX hd 5770 for the wife's pc and for the life of me i cant get it to work on her pc. Her pc is an HP pavillion a6214x desktop. The pc is 2.5 yrs old and it came w/ win vista 32bit. I went ahead and did a clean install of win 7 ultimate 64bit. Before the purchase of the 5770, it had an older ati hd 2400 pro already running on 7 ultimate. the pc worked just fine and dandy w/ that card. The reason for the upgrade is so she can play css and other games with me and the boys on our home lan w/ no lagg due to the settings being cranked up high. So,i made sure the pc had all the needed driver updates from Hp and such.(Bios,chipset,etc).I also made sure the settings in the bios for main video output is set to pcie. To make sure the card works, i put it in my pc,the boys pc's, even my daughters pc and it works fine.That rules out the possibility of a bad card. I have an older Nvidia 8400 gs galaxy in my daughters pc. I took that one out and tried it on my wife's pc and it worked too. Here's where it gets wierd. Since my wife has an lcd monitor I have to use and adapter. Its a female vga to male dvi-i. Every time i would hook eveything up, i would get no video. The monitor would display"monitor going to sleep". So i tried a crt monitor my daughter uses and would get the same results. Then i put on the adapter while the monitor was on and immediately the monitor would go into sleep mode.Hmmmmm. luckily I have three adapters. I tried all three only to get the same results." Monitor going to sleep". Then out of sheer curiosity, I put in the hd 2400 pro back in,but instead of plugging to the vga out, I put on the adapter and plugged in to the dvi port on the 2400. It works!!!! Why for the life of me will the monitor work w/ the 2400 pro w/ either dvi-i adapter or vga and not the 5770??? I'm at witts end!! Can someone please help me out on this? Thanx to any and all who can shed some light on this dark and mystirious conondrum.:shadedshu