[mythtv-users] Issue booting with new GT 430, WAS: Recent occasional tearing with GT 430 Advanced 2x?

[Tom Dexter]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the advice!  I actually just ordered this:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487052&cm_re=gt_730_low-_-14-487-052-_-Product
>
> I've always found the fan to be plenty quiet enough, and after having
> my current one start overheating even with a fan, I'm not sure I want
> to get any riskier ;).
>
> Tom

Wow...what a nightmare.  I just replaced this card (which is starting
to give me problems):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133356

...with this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487052&cm_re=gt_730_low-_-14-487-052-_-Product

This is in an older Dell 4700C with an x16 PCI Express slot.

The computer would NOT boot at all with the new card.  I couldn't tell
much about what it was or wasn't doing.  I simply got two beeps and no
video output from the card on either the DVI or the VGA.  It actually
just occurred to me that I didn't check to see if anything was coming
through the built in video's VGA...damn.  I had to put the old card
back in, and I'm up and running again with it.  Painful!

In any case, I have to confess that I'm no expert on PCI Express.
Before I send this back for a replacement, can anyone think of *any*
reason, short of simply being a defective card, that this would
happen?  The only thing that bothered me a little about it was this:
I had to use the low profile brackets, which wasn't any
issue...however the existing large bracket had a small tab that
grounded to a screw on the board, while the low profile brackets had
no such thing.  I wouldn't think that would be an issue, but it seemed
a little odd.

Thanks in advance for any advice...I *really* don't want to go through
that more than once.

Tom