Noticed my 2nd 280x wasn't recognized by my system the other day. Opened my case, pulled out both cards, put the "bad" one in alone, confirmed it was "dead".
Put just the "good" card in...suddenly, it is "dead" as well. Meaning, fans spin up and computer appears to turn on. However, monitors continue to sleep and computer doesn't POST.
XFX claims it's probably the motherboard since "there is no way two cards would both fail at the same time".
Thinking about RMAing both anyway since they're both nearly two years old. Think the board is dead too, though? It still appears to function - there is different behavior when I remove all of the ram, for example - it'll spin up, pause, then immediately shut down. I've added one stick at a time/tried each on its own, same situation. Not opposed to replacing the motherboard, but thought I'd see what /g/ thinks.
MSI M67A-GD55
XFX 280x (x2)
Corsair 750w PSU
i7-2700k
Pic not really related.
No motherboard will get to the boot screen without any ram installed.
What about the integrated GPU?
cool blogpost bro
Buy an iPhone
Install gentoo
Doesn't your cpu have integrated graphics? If it does, then the mobo should recognize that there are no gpus installed and switch to the igpu, it might just be true that your mobo is misbehaving.
>>51237794
>>51237960
No integrated gpu on this motherboard, otherwise that's the first thing that I would have tried.
>>51239015
>p67
>poorfag detected
>>51239032
I guess I figured at the time that if I was spending $700 on GPUs that I wouldn't need something integrated. Now that 1155 is old hat, it makes me want to just upgrade the motherboard for the hell of it.
>>51239032
>>51239063
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293R
buy this instead
>>51239082
Hm, that's pretty cheap. Might just scoop that up.
Buy a mac
>XFX
>>51239780
XFX has the best warranty in the game, anon.
>>51239179
Asrock is utter shit though
Update - I reset CMOS and got it to boot. Once it was in Windows, the computer was acting quite odd. Somehow, it was playing audio over DVI (which apparently is a thing?) and had an entire icon tray that wouldn't load properly. I also couldn't adjust audio. I was able to set internet time properly, then rebooted the computer.
It now won't boot, even after resetting CMOS again. Looks like the motherboard is the culprit. Did find that one of the fans on one of my 280x has a bearing failure that is just beginning, so I'll probably RMA it anyway.
>>51240523
new motherboard time
>>51240630
Yep, purchased. Slim fucking picking these days for socket 1155. Jesus.
I've heard bad things about XFX's VRM and MOSFET cooling, that might have had something to do with it. I could be wrong, though, but I've usually stuck to MSI with cards
>>51241033
I used to do Sapphire but started doing MSI recently. At the time, the XFX was the best reviewed unit, mostly because of the warranty.
I do have to RMA one of the cards anyway, as when I was doing all of this, I noticed that the bearings were failing on one of the fans on one of the GPUs (it is clicking and feels gummed up).
>>51239015
>coax
isn't that video?
>>51242301
No, that's yellow. Spidf can be optical or coaxial.
>>51240523
Yeah sound over dvi is a thing.
>>51237685
This happened with an r9 290 I owned that I crossfired with another 290
I assumed it was my fault due to mining buttcoins with it alot earlier
>>51237685
I can guarantee you that something's up with your PCI-E bus.
>>51242301
Are you retarded? Would you say the same thing if you learned that most internet connections that are copper are coaxial cables?
