System building trouble

[Michael Butash]

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.

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.

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.

-mb



On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 6:09 PM Adam Mercer <ramercer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 9:59 AM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Same behaviour with and without the GPU connected, i.e. nothing... The
> GPU has an 8 and 6 pin power connector and both were connected when I
> tried with it connected.
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam
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