No monitor output till i get to login screen.

[BrianHanna]

I turn on the computer, and i'm only getting a display on my monitor when it reaches the login screen.

it's just black for like 10 seconds, then out of nowhere, login screen

[lowfat]

Don't suppose you are using DisplayPort?

[BrianHanna]

Originally Posted by lowfat

Don't suppose you are using DisplayPort?

nope hdmi.

here's the weird thing.


one video card does display the post messages and lets me in the bios, but crashes at login.

the other shows no post, and i cant see the bios (i assume the bios works, but i cant see anything), but loads into windows fine

[ipaine]

Try to get into the bios. Basically restart it and use whatever you need to, del, F2, F10, etc. to get into the bios. See if the bios screen shows up. I say this as I had a monitor at work that used an auto detection and it almost always would show nothing until windows was loading, but if I hit F2 to get into the bios it would go there and then I would see the bios screen.

Also check to see if you monitor uses auto detection to determine what input to use. If it does try to set it to only use the HDMI.

[BrianHanna]

i don't think it's the monitor.

I took out one of the cards, (the one that when plugged into the monitor, shows the bios but crashes i think at login (cant see login at least) and i could see the bios just fine.

[BrianHanna]

now the same card that was giving problems before isn't showing up in the device manager

edit: i've tried reinstalling drivers everything.

gonna RMA the card

actually.

what the hell does this mean



edit:

Ugh, so i tried updating my motherboards bios, i did, to the latest version and im still getting this god damn message, i don't know what the problem could be now

could a mod move this to troubleshooting.

[BrianHanna]

I just spent 20 minutes switching the cards around.

i put the first card (the good one i think) in the first slot, everything booted fine, i restarted 5 times, everything fine.

put in the second pci-e slot, everything fine, booted five more times, everything fine.

Took the second card, put it in first slot, everything booted fine, restarted like 5 times, all fine

put it in the second slot got one long beep, 3 short beeps (hardware failure), tried again, 1 long 3 short, tried few more times, worked fine?!

the fact that i got the 1 long beep 3 short must meen something is wrong with the card right? or is it the motherboard (which worked fine with the first card in either slot)?

now put them both back in, same problem, the one good card is fine, and the other still has error code 12

[Shredder]

Give this a shot before the RMA
Have a look in your device manager for conflicts under resources, your mother board has assigned resources to the same interupt for 2 devices. Determine where the conflict is through the device manager and disable the other device sharing the conflict if possible. It may be something like the HDMI sound on the vidcards causing the error.

[KaptCrunch]

Originally Posted by BrianHanna

I just spent 20 minutes switching the cards around.

i put the first card (the good one i think) in the first slot, everything booted fine, i restarted 5 times, everything fine.

put in the second pci-e slot, everything fine, booted five more times, everything fine.

Took the second card, put it in first slot, everything booted fine, restarted like 5 times, all fine

put it in the second slot got one long beep, 3 short beeps (hardware failure), tried again, 1 long 3 short, tried few more times, worked fine?!

the fact that i got the 1 long beep 3 short must meen something is wrong with the card right? or is it the motherboard (which worked fine with the first card in either slot)?

now put them both back in, same problem, the one good card is fine, and the other still has error code 12

trying cross-fire/sli setup? may have to turn on that option in bios and use a cable bridge to link them.

well seems you confused The DMI pool by all this switching hardware around

first get current drivers for MB....chipset,bios,sound,lan etc and video

clear out the video drivers

reset bios (write down your OC info before doing)

install current drivers

note using 2 moniters ? boot in default mode till all is updated then load video drivers

oh whats your PSU watt rating

[BrianHanna]

Originally Posted by KaptCrunch

trying cross-fire/sli setup? may have to turn on that option in bios and use a cable bridge to link them.

well seems you confused The DMI pool by all this switching hardware around

first get current drivers for MB....chipset,bios,sound,lan etc and video

clear out the video drivers

reset bios (write down your OC info before doing)

install current drivers

note using 2 moniters ? boot in default mode till all is updated then load video drivers

oh whats your PSU watt rating

all details in sig.

750watt corsair
i've had crossfire working before, it's just not working now.
i have reset bios
i went to asus site and downloaded the newest bios, newest chipset, newest sound audio driver.
only one monitor
i've unistalled the drivers for both cards in the device manager, and had windows install the ones that came with it, didn't work either.

i've gone looking for what could be causing the confusion, but i haven't been able to find it, maybe i just have no idea where to look.

Also, i did all the switching the cards around AFTER this problem occured, to see if it was the card or the pci-e slot