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

[Tom Dexter]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? <snip>

Oh for the love of mercy.  I just noticed in one of the reviews for
that thing on newegg that a guy with another Dell Dimension (though an
8300) said the BIOS wouldn't recognize it.  I'll bet I'm screwed on
this particular model.  I know I have the newest BIOS ever offered for
that.

Not nice.

Tom