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[Camaro]

the red lead on the multi touches to the red or yellow wire on the molex, the black lead goes to the black wire on the molex

[Tweak]

Camaro, on Nov 11 2007, 08:33 PM, said:

the red lead on the multi touches to the red or yellow wire on the molex, the black lead goes to the black wire on the molex

And here I was thinking licking it would help...

Just kidding, for a bit of clarification...

http://www.devhardware.com/forums/power-su...test-75111.html

[mysticalmoose]

ok, so i have the multimeter and i'm set to do the test, but i don't see how i can put my system at load if the only way to get it to boot up is without a graphics card. any ideas?

[Sphere]

boot it with your "insert" key pressed down, that usually makes it boot directly to the BIOS.

Only works on ps/2 connected motherboards afaik

[mysticalmoose]

ok i have ps/2 connection (i think), but booting it to BIOS, what does that accomplish? does that put it under stress?

[m.oreilly]

you can check your bios voltage readings, and if you have the meter on, w/probs inserted into a molex, you will be able to see any big changes happen when the video card drivers load.

[mysticalmoose]

ok, so its deffinetly the graphics card thats bad, and i decided to go to best buy and grab one just to make sure (i plan on returning it). unfortunately the drivers are giving me issues. I'm trying to get rid of all old drivers before i try to install new ones on this card. I ran ATI's utility to clean out all drivers, but it left the one that is the actual driver. when i try to get rid of this using add/remove programs, it just says "Error initializing". i don't know how to proceed.

Edited by mysticalmoose, 02 December 2007 - 11:39 PM.

[m.oreilly]

start in safe mode. you can then delete the 3rd party/3D driver.
how did you determine it was the graphics card?

[mysticalmoose]

because it works now

[m.oreilly]

mysticalmoose, on Dec 3 2007, 09:22 PM, said:

because it works now

[mysticalmoose]

ok, i'm about to return the card i got at best buy, and am trying to decide what card to buy now. this seems perfect for me, what do you all tink?\

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130062

[m.oreilly]

pretty darn cheap there, though i'd be inclined to spend a little more and get one of the 8000 series cards...

edit: like this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814150229

[mysticalmoose]

would that work good with beryl?

[m.oreilly]

mysticalmoose, on Dec 4 2007, 02:27 PM, said:

would that work good with beryl?

gosh, i dunno. i'd check the nvidia site for their latest linux driver...

[Camaro]

I am staying away from the drm infested card for now, hopefully drm is on the way out and I can skip that generation of card.