"Jbob" said:
What drivers are needed at POST? That's just standard VGA stuff correct?
I'd try the card in another board just for grins.
Might try reseating the card a few times too.
You might also try checking supply voltages, either in the
BIOS power monitor screen, or while in Windows (if you can boot
of course). It could be that one of the power rails is being
crushed by your new toy.
Also, some models of video cards have been notorious for failing
video RAM chips. Or even having a heatsink that has come loose
from the chip it is supposed to be cooling. Perhaps a bit of
Googling will give you a feel for the quality of that particular
product (I see at least one report of a failure after 3 weeks.)
If there is a separate power cable for the card, make sure there
are no other loads on that cable. My ATI video card, for example,
draws 5.5 amps from +5V on a disk drive cable, and you don't
really want to complicate life by powering any disk drives with
the same cable. Also, at a minimum, I would want a power supply
with a 5V 25A output current rating. If yours is rated for
significantly less than that, that could be your problem.
I don't know what rail a 6800 OC draws power from, but it
will either be mostly +5V or +12V. Since the A7N8X draws most
of its power from +5V, that is why the +5V must be so strong.
Paul