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I ordered this beast awhile ago, and it arrived doa and dell wouldn't send me a new one. So I RMA'd it through Visiontek and they sent me a new one.

The problem I have, is when I boot up my computer it's like the video card revs itself or something. The fan with boost up then down for a good minute before it actually starts to boot. The old one did the same thing. Is this normal for ATI cards? I had Nvidia for years and decided to try ATI.

Right now, I have been using a backup computer with motherboard graphics and it sucks.

Any help would be so great.

Oh and I have this card in a
Asus striker extreme 680i
PC P&C 750w psu
Q6600

I thought that this would be plenty of juice considering that I had two 9800gtx's before.

What do you all think?

I've heard of this problem happening when used with Nvidia PCIe 1.0 boards. Have you tried updating the motherboard's BIOS?

I had the same issue with my Asus M2N-SLI mobo. The sys just wouldn't boot properly or at all. Put my old 9800gtx+ and everything worked. 5850? Nope. The solution? I bought a newer mobo. Yeap. This videocard has real problems with old PCIe 1.x mobos.

I got an Asus M4A77D...which took all my old components . Added the 5850 and successful booting followed. Not a state of the art mobo but it works.

These cards dont claim to be compatible below PCIe 2.0 .

You also wanted a new mobo right?

Lol, I also had the Asus M2N-Sli which had a problem and then I upgraded to the M4A77D as well. It solved the issue for me also.

It's normal on all motherboards and in any slot. It's also a very favorable condition that many 5870 owners WISH happened. When you boot up the fan speed ramps to full as it's not in control yet. Then the card is given some brains and it goes back into control according to the temperature.

If this doesn't happen, and happens on 5870's still I believe, it could stay low and overheat pretty quickly. So I really don't see a problem with 4 seconds of noise during a rare POST. It's not a problem and nVidia's do it too. Until the software loads, it's blind to what it's suppose to do. Full throttle for a moment is better than no throttle at all.

I have two 4890s in crossfire and the fans run up to full and when a post appears they throttle down to a normal speed...is this what yours does? You said your card goes up and down several times before post ..is this right? Or does it just go up until post then throttles down, I am a little confused about your statement?

Nasty

I have 2 geforce 8800 gt's. Both do what nastyman's gpu's do





Ted

....while the fan rev-up-down is normal....a minute of it thrashing about is NOT normal. My older mobo did the same prolongued boot process...with the fan reving up.... when it would boot up at all.

So while the fan thing is normal this gen of cards has a boot problem with
mobos a few gens old....

Says you. No problems here. Sure the fans rev up for a moment, but beyond that your problems are your own.

The point is that the fans ramping up is a good thing. If someone (able) has random BS happening that's not the same, then that's your issue. The OP has a normal thing going on and needs to adjust his life by 3 seconds.

Precisely...

A "problem" that went away with a different mobo and the same 5850.

Living a well adjusted life now..... thanks Dr Chumly...




PS ASUS has released a BIOS update that " M2N-SLI BIOS 1103 Fix it may take much time to boot with ATI Radeon 5850 "

Their wording not mine. So a possible fix thru BIOS updates. Nice. Late for me but....