Very weird Problem

lisa79 · 09-10-2005, 07:21 PM

Hi

Ill try and make this as short as possible, i installed a fourth hard drive in my comp today, everything went fine then 5 mins into booting up, i got a message on my smartdoctor software that i installed with my ax600xt/td ati pci express graphics card, it said something like "not enough power from the 12v not sure exactly what it said, anyway i restarted the computer thinkin that might help, but then i get the message "cannot find graphics information" and then smartdoctor will not load up, so then i uninstall the drivers and uninstall the graphics card, i restart the comp with the basic graphics settings and no drivers installed, at least i get a picture anyway so i go to put the drivers back on with the cd i got with the card, they install it says and tell me to restart, so i restart, it gets to the windows screen where the blue thing scrolls across but then nothing the screen goes black, i left it like that for 20 mins and still black, everything is workin cause i see the hard drive light workin, so i restart and choose last good configeration that worked, then i get a pic again but its only on basic settings again with no drivers, so my prob is as soon as i update the drivers (ive tried it 5 times by the way, with the cd drivers and drivers off the windows update site) i dont get no picture, is my graphics card bust? and if it was why do i get a picture without the drivers, this is really weird to me, btw the graphics card requires no extra lead or anything, u just stick it in the pci express slot, it was workin fine before

, please someone must know wats wrong, thanks alot

**dragon2309** · 09-10-2005, 07:33 PM

No, it doesnt sound like your graphics card is broken, or not to me it doesnt anyway, others may well disagree. I take it you have taken out the newly installed 5th hard drive and tried booting up. Perhaps it is actually a dodgy hard drive and that is throwing errors into everywher upon booting up.

Try stripping your system down to bare minimal, 1 hard drive, the one with the OS obviously, no CD drives, if you can, no addin cards, as little RAM as you can. Also check if the RAM is faulty.

Without actaully being there theres not much anyone can do/say, this is just the generic troubleshooting procedures again.

lisa79 · 09-10-2005, 08:44 PM

Hey dragon

, before i went to all the hassle of takin everything out, i just took the graphics card out, just to see wat would happen,then put it back in and it works now

, still dunno wat happened, kinda weird, ive still got that hard drive in there, and its workin fine at the mo, only thing is ive disabled the 12v warning thing on smartdoctor, dunno if that was wise, but i dont want the same thing happening again, wat i was thinkin tho was i may have got that "not enough power on the 12v" warning thing because i just installed that new hard drive maybe the psu isnt powerful enough, i currently have 2 dvd drives and 4 hard drives and about 10 usb devices on here, my psu is a 450w http://www.jeantech.com/Products/Pow...120mm_psu.html , also the cpu is overclocked from 3.4 to 3.6, and about 5 fans, any ideas on what caused that warning in the first place, cheers

09-10-2005, 07:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
lisa79 Bronze Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: uk Age: 29 Posts: 97	Very weird Problem Hi Ill try and make this as short as possible, i installed a fourth hard drive in my comp today, everything went fine then 5 mins into booting up, i got a message on my smartdoctor software that i installed with my ax600xt/td ati pci express graphics card, it said something like "not enough power from the 12v not sure exactly what it said, anyway i restarted the computer thinkin that might help, but then i get the message "cannot find graphics information" and then smartdoctor will not load up, so then i uninstall the drivers and uninstall the graphics card, i restart the comp with the basic graphics settings and no drivers installed, at least i get a picture anyway so i go to put the drivers back on with the cd i got with the card, they install it says and tell me to restart, so i restart, it gets to the windows screen where the blue thing scrolls across but then nothing the screen goes black, i left it like that for 20 mins and still black, everything is workin cause i see the hard drive light workin, so i restart and choose last good configeration that worked, then i get a pic again but its only on basic settings again with no drivers, so my prob is as soon as i update the drivers (ive tried it 5 times by the way, with the cd drivers and drivers off the windows update site) i dont get no picture, is my graphics card bust? and if it was why do i get a picture without the drivers, this is really weird to me, btw the graphics card requires no extra lead or anything, u just stick it in the pci express slot, it was workin fine before , please someone must know wats wrong, thanks alot __________________ Windows Vista Premium Edition Antec Fusion Case AMD 4200+ X2 AM2 Asus M2N-VM DH motherboard ATI Radeon X800 XT Graphics card PCI-E 256mb Corsair XMS 2gb Ram

09-10-2005, 07:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
dragon2309 P.I Dragon Join Date: May 2005 Location: KENT, UK Age: 19 Posts: 8,237	No, it doesnt sound like your graphics card is broken, or not to me it doesnt anyway, others may well disagree. I take it you have taken out the newly installed 5th hard drive and tried booting up. Perhaps it is actually a dodgy hard drive and that is throwing errors into everywher upon booting up. Try stripping your system down to bare minimal, 1 hard drive, the one with the OS obviously, no CD drives, if you can, no addin cards, as little RAM as you can. Also check if the RAM is faulty. Without actaully being there theres not much anyone can do/say, this is just the generic troubleshooting procedures again. __________________ //``-tHe RiG iN tHe SiG-``\\ Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.1Ghz - (__CPU__) eVGA 680i SLi - (__MOB__) 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-800 (4x1024Mb) - (__RAM__) 250Gb Western Digital SATAII 7200rpm - (__HDD__) nVidia BFG 8800GTS OC 320Mb - (__GFX__) LG DVD+/-RW 18x DVD-RAM - (__OPT__) Triple Boot - [XP Pro] + [Vista Ultimate] + [Ubuntu 7.10] - (__OS__) [3DMARK'03 :: 25,587] --- [3DMARK'05 :: 13,989] --- [3DMARK'06 :: 8791] - (__BENCHMARKS__) dragon2309.co.uk - a little slice of geek

09-10-2005, 08:44 PM	#3 (permalink)
lisa79 Bronze Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: uk Age: 29 Posts: 97	Hey dragon , before i went to all the hassle of takin everything out, i just took the graphics card out, just to see wat would happen,then put it back in and it works now , still dunno wat happened, kinda weird, ive still got that hard drive in there, and its workin fine at the mo, only thing is ive disabled the 12v warning thing on smartdoctor, dunno if that was wise, but i dont want the same thing happening again, wat i was thinkin tho was i may have got that "not enough power on the 12v" warning thing because i just installed that new hard drive maybe the psu isnt powerful enough, i currently have 2 dvd drives and 4 hard drives and about 10 usb devices on here, my psu is a 450w http://www.jeantech.com/Products/Pow...120mm_psu.html , also the cpu is overclocked from 3.4 to 3.6, and about 5 fans, any ideas on what caused that warning in the first place, cheers __________________ Windows Vista Premium Edition Antec Fusion Case AMD 4200+ X2 AM2 Asus M2N-VM DH motherboard ATI Radeon X800 XT Graphics card PCI-E 256mb Corsair XMS 2gb Ram

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