Hi Guys, I just got a new ATI 5450 and stuck it in my HTPC. However, when it tried to boot, the motherboard just wants to use the on board VGA. The BIOS is set to boot from PCIE first of course. If I put back my old PCIE 6600GT (which was working previously fine) and it boots straight away off of it. I'm not sure if the motherboard isn't giving the new card enough juice or whether maybe my power supply is too weak. The new video card has no power supply connector. For reference my board is this old POS with the latest BIOS installed: http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=&prod_no=1598 My case is the Fusion 430 (stock 430W PSU). I tried unplugging all my Hard drives and DVD to lower power usage. The Video card in question (Which works in another PC is): http://www.powercolor.com/au/products_features.asp?id=226 Any help appreciated. Cheers, Gary
Tried that, no dice. Thanks anyway. I'm getting the feeling this mobo just doesn't want to play nicely with this card. Even if I boot into Windows with the onboard card, Windows won't detect the ATI 5450 card
had this issue before as did someone else i know they don't work in older pcie 1 slots not enough power so basically it will never work
Thanks for the info, I assumed it was something along those lines. Now I just need to find a Micro ATX board with PCIE2. Does anyone know if the G41 chipset boards have this? Most just say "1 x PCIe x16" which I assume is V1 PCIE.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/266175-30-tomshardware my guess would be yes but check the vendors specs
I'm having the same issue .... my old acer 5900pro knows its there but just beeps at me .... at first I thought it was a dud card but I put it in this PC and it is working fine, then I put another card in the acer (5670) and it is working fine
Yeah I ended up buying a G43 motherboard (the G41's all seemed to be PCIE v1) and it worked straight away. Thanks for the help Tarot.
