<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">I’m starting to think that you may have a bad motherboard.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, at 20:30, Michael Butash wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div style="font-family:Arial;">I've had issues trying to power a gpu and get display with the 6 vs. 8 pin connector. Or both, just for functionality's sake. Need to figure out which standard they want/prefer. AMD vs. Nvidia.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">One or the other, I've ended up with 1x of either as workable, not both, not the wrong one (which ever that is), and then all tends to be right with boot.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">It seemed always yet another amd vs nvidia thing which to connect, but almost any time in the past 10 years I've need a psu that supported the 6/8 pin power connector explicitly. Expect the pcie power to fail/glitch/piss-you-off - use external power supply, and a beefy psu at that for any/all that gpu of power.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">-mb<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 6:09 PM Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 9:59 AM Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> > The PCI-express spec has a limit on the power draw it can allow for a GPU If it takes more than that it has extra power connectors. That might be a good check. make sure you don't have a connector not connected on your GPU. and/or try power on without a GPU connected. (if there is no video at least you will get power up and beeps.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Same behaviour with and without the GPU connected, i.e. nothing... The<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> GPU has an 8 and 6 pin power connector and both were connected when I<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> tried with it connected.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Cheers<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Adam<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> ---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div id="sig4468849"><div class="signature">--<br></div><div class="signature"> Harold Hartley<br></div><div class="signature"> 17632 N. 5th place<br></div><div class="signature"> Phoenix, AZ 85022<br></div><div class="signature"> wheelie207@ownmail.net<br></div><div class="signature"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>