New system not working

Hi
setting up a new system but it doesn t want to boot.

What: Asus P8P67 rev3.1
CLUB3D HD 6970
CLUB3D 850 W
2x 4Gb kingston Hyper 1600
and wahtnots

Symptoms: 1 long 3 short beep, onece: that is VGA not recognized

Any idea?

sounds like graphic-card’s problem

Not good ram type ?

Concerning the gfx card us your powersupply enough for it and with right connectors ? See ati specs about poweesupply and cabling

?have you tied a different GFX card?

what xd_nitro said!

I recall a shout from you asking if the GPU needed a six pin and an 8 pin powerconnector, It most likely does.

I recently got a PC that should run an eyefinity card and the GPU specified that it needed 225W and the PSU on paper had no problem with that, but it only had two 6 pin connectors. I had to replace the PSU with one with a 6pin and an 8pin connector to get it to work, it sounds a bit like what you are experiencing now.

-sunep

hi
my PSU has 4x 6+2pin PCI-E plugs, those are supposed to be both 6 and 8 pin plug compatible.
I haven t tried with another VGA cause I don t have other PCI-e cars here anyway the guys at the shop they told they are going to lend me one so I can flash the EFI bios cause that s very likely to be the issue, let s hope so…
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Bios update but still ho hopes for the hd6970 …

A bad bugging gfx card ? Did you try to exchange it?

Hi
I may have spotted the issue: my motherboard has PCI-Express x16 slot 2.0 while the hd6970 is 2.1 compliant, does anybody know if that can be the problem?
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that won’t be the problem. have you tried another GFX card yet?

Yes, a nvidia 7200 gs, all working fine, i ve sent the HD6970 back already, it really seems to be a faulty card… grrr
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yeah dead card or it could be an issue with ya PSU though - did you test the voltages at the pins?

No I didn t although it occurred to me too, but finding my multimeter right now would be an even greater issue… anyway i tried different connections from the modular PSU and none worked.
I va also discovered a little switch close to the CrossFire gold fingers that supposedly let s you use 2 different bios setup…
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Hi
they ended up giving me a HD6950, they said they were not able to pinpoint the issue, both motherboard and graphic card worked but didn t cooperate nicely. Beware of this combination!
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Now the system is up and working with the HD6950. I am testing it with GPU Particles and the render is stuttering although FPS doesn t seem to drop.
Really, no more ATI stuff on my machines…
Has anybody experienced something like that with ATIs?
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