New gpu issue

If you have another PCI slot try it

What rating in both overall Wattage and the amount of 12v AMPs does the label on both your PSU and the other you you tested? Was the second PSU you tested in your friends machine that worked fine?

On your machine, not even the BIOS start up/initialization worked? Did the PC make any beeping noises other than the single beep?

haxo512 said:

Hey,
I bought a Gigabyte HD6870 as a upgrade but unfortunately it didn't work on my pc.
Card itself was just fine and tested on friend's pc.
On my pc i didn't get any signal to monitor from it and also even without display it was obvious that pc is stuck somewhere before windows loading stage.
I did test it with another psu even tho i knew it's not the issue but still the same result.

Pc specs:
Intel i3-2120
4gb DDR3 1333mhz
MSI h61m-e33 (b3)
XFX gts250 1gb (previous card)
FSP hexa series 500w psu

I also tried to upgrade bios to latest(before ivy) version, but that didn't help either.
In bios it was switched to PEG(pci-e), before someone mentions that :)

HD6870 is already returned back for my money, but i still want to know what was the problem since i want to make this gpu upgrade still.
Could it be motherboard that doesn't detect it or something else related to it?

I can tell you right now 500 watt PSU is the issue I have a 6870 as a back up 500 watt is the minimum you need to use a 600 watt or a 550watt should work but you pretty much don't have enough power to power everything read the specs on the box also crossfire you would want to go with a 650 to 700 just saying

I second the PSU issue. What was your friends PSU spec? Never go cheap on the PSU.

Maybe I'm not following, your PSU is 500 w and your friends is 700 w and the GPU worked in his and not in yours? It's either the PCIe lane or the power to the GPU in my opinion.