gainward 7800gs has arived

[BLooD]

not happy:(, at the moment i cant use my new 7800gs as i cant get into windows when its installed, i have uninstalled my 6800gt and drivers but windows craps out when it tries to boot, had the same problem with a xfx 7800gs EE :cry:

[chevro1et]

Awww man, that is rotten. Dfonda had a similar prob with a 7800gs agp card, just wasn't compatible with his mobo or something. He ended up trying something like 3 different cards, none worked in his rig, so he ended up with a 6800gs instead.

[BLooD]

gainward are on the case, had a mail from them about it, just mailed back with my full spec and the problem, really hope i can sort this out :bang head

[n0aH]

You try booting into safe mode?

[BLooD]

when the card is installed, i cant get windows at all, machine locksup and moniter shuts off

[n0aH]

ohhh ok. I just installed mine and i was having trouble with whenever it got to the logon screen it would freeze and i couldnt logon..fixed that through safemode and i figured you were having the same issue

[BLooD]

thanks for trying to help, i tried uninstalling my 6800gt, the card has a pci-e power block with a twin molex adaptor, card needs two power feeds from psu, conntected only one feed by mistake but when connected with two feeds it still dont work

[Drinkyoghurt]

do you have a 400 watt 20 amps psu? i've read that that could be the problem..thats why i ordered an ultra x-connect 500 watt....now i have to get em..they both havent arrived yet

[BLooD]

se my sig. enermax 650w 35amps 12v rail

[twoeyes]

So it wont post at all or windows locks up?

[BLooD]

it posts fine, bios reports no problems, windows locks up when it tries to load and moniter shuts down

[Kenshiro]

wow, i didn't know that 7800gs has this kind of problem. It really don't make sense to me at all. Just curious here, if the card has compatibility issues, should the card manufacturer indicate that?

[BLooD]

i have been in touch via email with lee the md of gainward uk about this, im hoping to hear from him tommorrow, also sent a support ticket to gigabyte aswell

[Kenshiro]

sorry to hear about your problem dude... It really sucks ass when we paid so much for a new component, and just see problems when we got it. It is extremely fasturating. I hate to repeat it. It really don't make sense to me that they will make a card with so many compatibility issues. That will only hurt them.

[Kenshiro]

ohhh... just notice I got my 8th star. heh heh heh ..........

[BLooD]

im still on three :( wish i had my max3 mobo, miss that beauty :bang head

[einstein2]

strange it does that, i would of thought it would be conflicts or shared IRQ somewhere. I totally burnt my Graphics card and had to have it replaced. Either it was a bad card or compatiblity problem.

[chevro1et]

So BLooD, whats the deal? You get that card to load windows yet?

[beavismorpheus]

omg updt pls

[BLooD]

sorry guys :(, looks like it might be a power problem, yes even with my mighty enermax 650w 35a psu, i need to find the time to dismantle comp and run it barebones, some one over overclockers.co.uk forums had the same problem, seams you need to provide two totaly free power feeds and i dont have that liberty with three HD`s and two optical drives and 4 case fans, from what i can see the card is pretty fast, also gainward is about to produce a 7900GT 512mb agp. if i get it sorted and if your still interested i will post benchies at some point, kinda busy at the moment as im getting married on april 15th :)

[chevro1et]

Well, congrats on the wedding!!!

Post back whenever you get a chance, I am quite interested in how well that card really does perform...

[BLooD]

thanks for the sentiments :D, im also bidding on a abit ic7 max3 on fleabay, i will get this sorted :bang head