Hey, I'm new here (fairly sure you can tell by the number of forum posts) but I've been having a problem with my computer for the last several months or thereabouts but been dealing with it with a workaround.
Here are my system specs to get started with:
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
ASUS P5N32-E SLi motherboard
Intel Core2Duo E6600 2.4GHz (overclocked to ~3.4GHz) CPU
NVidia XFX GeForce 8800GTX GPU
Corsair XMS2 Dominator 4.0GB (4x1.0GB) RAM
X-Clio 850W PSU
Several months ago my computer (self-built which I had for another several months beforehand) decided to stop booting. Everything would power up but the display wouldn't power up and the machine wouldn't boot to the post screen. I would get an intermittent clicking sound, as if something was trying to catch in order to boot (possible mainboard short?). At first I suspected it was my graphics card so I took out my 8800GTX from the PCI-E x16 slot and replaced it with my old 7950GX2, and when I powered up the machine it would boot up fine... on replacing the 8800GTX back into that same slot, it wouldn't boot up again.
I sent the graphics card on RMA back to scan.co.uk and they said that the card had no faults which just made me more confused as I now had no idea what the problem was. I eventually found a workaround by placing the 8800GTX in the lesser PCI-E x8 slot, and where it DID work, I felt as if I was losing the major potential of my card.
Last night I opened up my computer once again to try the PCI-E x16 slot again to see if it worked again, but once again the system failed to boot, however I then stumbled on the solution by mistake. Being lazy I thought I'd just leave my computer laying on its side to minimise movement (ATX Tower case), and it was here that I realised that the system only boots up in this horizontal position when the 8800GTX is in the PCI-E x16 slot. I can continue to use the computer in the vertical position but it refuses to (or has a very small chance to) boot in the vertical position.
All my drivers are uptodate and Vista is uptodate (although software shouldn't have any effect on this situation). I've tried pulling out and putting back in the hardware components to no avail, I've even tried nudging things up a bit while in a vertical position during boot to give the system the thought that it was "horizontal", again to no avail.
Does anyone know what would cause this problem? If it was a short, why would it then work flawlessly in a horizontal problem? As far as I was aware, the mainboard circuitry wouldn't be affected by angular positioning, but maybe I'm wrong. I tried a bios update once and I think I was having problems with it so went back to stock bios drivers.
Cheers
Here are my system specs to get started with:
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
ASUS P5N32-E SLi motherboard
Intel Core2Duo E6600 2.4GHz (overclocked to ~3.4GHz) CPU
NVidia XFX GeForce 8800GTX GPU
Corsair XMS2 Dominator 4.0GB (4x1.0GB) RAM
X-Clio 850W PSU
Several months ago my computer (self-built which I had for another several months beforehand) decided to stop booting. Everything would power up but the display wouldn't power up and the machine wouldn't boot to the post screen. I would get an intermittent clicking sound, as if something was trying to catch in order to boot (possible mainboard short?). At first I suspected it was my graphics card so I took out my 8800GTX from the PCI-E x16 slot and replaced it with my old 7950GX2, and when I powered up the machine it would boot up fine... on replacing the 8800GTX back into that same slot, it wouldn't boot up again.
I sent the graphics card on RMA back to scan.co.uk and they said that the card had no faults which just made me more confused as I now had no idea what the problem was. I eventually found a workaround by placing the 8800GTX in the lesser PCI-E x8 slot, and where it DID work, I felt as if I was losing the major potential of my card.
Last night I opened up my computer once again to try the PCI-E x16 slot again to see if it worked again, but once again the system failed to boot, however I then stumbled on the solution by mistake. Being lazy I thought I'd just leave my computer laying on its side to minimise movement (ATX Tower case), and it was here that I realised that the system only boots up in this horizontal position when the 8800GTX is in the PCI-E x16 slot. I can continue to use the computer in the vertical position but it refuses to (or has a very small chance to) boot in the vertical position.
All my drivers are uptodate and Vista is uptodate (although software shouldn't have any effect on this situation). I've tried pulling out and putting back in the hardware components to no avail, I've even tried nudging things up a bit while in a vertical position during boot to give the system the thought that it was "horizontal", again to no avail.
Does anyone know what would cause this problem? If it was a short, why would it then work flawlessly in a horizontal problem? As far as I was aware, the mainboard circuitry wouldn't be affected by angular positioning, but maybe I'm wrong. I tried a bios update once and I think I was having problems with it so went back to stock bios drivers.
Cheers