...and I am having a few problems. First off my Radeon 9700 pro is apparently too early a revision for stable operation.
"If installing the ATI 9500 or 9700 Pro Series VGA cards, use only the card version PN xxx-xxxxx-30 or later, for optimum performance and overclocking stability"
My 9700 is a xxx-xxxxx-11, how come these early ones are supported?
The specific problems I am having is that on the occasional reboot I can't get past POST, the monitor just sits there without displaying anything. This also happens when I enable Performance mode for the RAM or if I change the memory speeds to anything other than SPD. I updated to the latest BIOS and that did not fix anything.
Also sometimes during POST I get an error saying CPU overclock failure but I am not overclocking. Other times I get a checksum error and I have to restore the BIOS(which is not the newest one) and then redo all my settings, which can send me back into the monitor not loading anything.
My second problem is this: "Don't forget to connect the CPU fan connector! Hardware monitoring errors may occur if you fail to plug this connecter."
I have watercooling in my computer therefore no CPU fan to plug in. It also says somewhere in the manual about not being able to just use a jumper cap to block it. Is there anywhere to disable this or will I have to plug a casefan in?
I can also replace my 9700 but I only want to do that if absolutely necessary.
So any suggestions?
"If installing the ATI 9500 or 9700 Pro Series VGA cards, use only the card version PN xxx-xxxxx-30 or later, for optimum performance and overclocking stability"
My 9700 is a xxx-xxxxx-11, how come these early ones are supported?
The specific problems I am having is that on the occasional reboot I can't get past POST, the monitor just sits there without displaying anything. This also happens when I enable Performance mode for the RAM or if I change the memory speeds to anything other than SPD. I updated to the latest BIOS and that did not fix anything.
Also sometimes during POST I get an error saying CPU overclock failure but I am not overclocking. Other times I get a checksum error and I have to restore the BIOS(which is not the newest one) and then redo all my settings, which can send me back into the monitor not loading anything.
My second problem is this: "Don't forget to connect the CPU fan connector! Hardware monitoring errors may occur if you fail to plug this connecter."
I have watercooling in my computer therefore no CPU fan to plug in. It also says somewhere in the manual about not being able to just use a jumper cap to block it. Is there anywhere to disable this or will I have to plug a casefan in?
I can also replace my 9700 but I only want to do that if absolutely necessary.
So any suggestions?