Gigabyte and XFX 5830 GFX Card detection

[strima]

Me agian, the thick one.

Had my XFX 5830 GFX card running in the PCIEx4 slot for a while with no problems apart from really bad booting. After a good look found it was chaffing some of the wires on my gigabyte ga-h55m-ud2h board so I moved it into the PCIEx16 slot, this is where the fun starts.

I've checked all bios settings and yet windows 7 doesn't detect the card. I've un-installed all drivers and used driver sweeper to get rid of any remnants yet the card is still not being detected.

Power is good and the GFX fan is running. Windows has detected a memory error so the card appears some where.

I don't want to move the card back to the x4 slot as booting took a long time however things are pointing to a bad GFX card.

I've raised a ticket with XFX however I thought I'd try here as the trained chimps at XFX may not give a good answer.

Thanks.

(struggling to see what I'm typing as I'm using the on-board slot)....

[FuzzySquirrel]

Try it in the PCIX4 slot, if it boots then all signs point to a bad x16 slot, if it doesn't then it points to the card dying.

[strima]

Works fine in the x4 however it clashes with the mobo cables and causes boot errors. I'm thinking that this card is fooked!!

Bad booting really meant turning on and off about 20 times on average to get the PC started including several cases of repair mode, non of which appear when running in VGA.

Lets see what overclockers and XFX have to say but I really think this card has had it.

Thought I'd try here as someone may have had the same problem.