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HD5670 and no POST

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striker85

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I finally decided to upgrade my fried x1900 to something a little newer. I picked up this well priced and reviewed XFX HD5670 and was all excited to plug it in and go when I picked it up last night. Unfortunately, I power on and get no POST. The debug on my board says code 29 which is initialization of video bios. I just got a response from XFX tech support citing compatibility issues with Nforce4. Has anyone else encountered this? Is there ANY way to work around this aside from buying a new mobo/cpu/memory?

P.S.
I have the latest bios for my mobo.
 
I finally decided to upgrade my fried x1900 to something a little newer. I picked up this well priced and reviewed XFX HD5670 and was all excited to plug it in and go when I picked it up last night. Unfortunately, I power on and get no POST. The debug on my board says code 29 which is initialization of video bios. I just got a response from XFX tech support citing compatibility issues with Nforce4. Has anyone else encountered this? Is there ANY way to work around this aside from buying a new mobo/cpu/memory?

P.S.
I have the latest bios for my mobo.

If there isn't a newer BIOS for your board thats fixes the issue with later cards chances are only other option to do buy a new board, if your happy with what you have CPU/RAM wise then just find a board say on Ebay with a better up-to-date chipset.

But if you can afford a light/medium build then I'd go for that there's plenty of decent medium level boards out there.
 
That's what I feared. It just so happens that I was given an AM2+ board with 2GB of memory. All I need to by is a CPU. I suppose my video card dying is forcing me to upgrade...though I was perfectly happy with my current setup.
 
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