System building trouble

[Michael Butash]

I've thought the same until after various fiddling with stupid n-by-x power
connections of different form-factors of power/mobo/gpu -  it's just some
damn formula I never figured out.  Last 2 mobo's and gpu's I've had to
fiddle with both 6 or 8 pin to make work on my gpu/mobo, once it works I
rather forget being few/far between and curse having to fiddle in the first
place.

YMMV here is all I'm declaring, either way it's quirky.  Don't trust the
motherboard power.  Thank vendor wars.

-mb

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 8:48 PM Harold Hartley <wheelie207 at ownmail.net>
wrote:

> I’m starting to think that you may have a bad motherboard.
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, at 20:30, Michael Butash wrote:
>
> 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
> >  ---------------------------------------------------
> >  PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> >  To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
>
> --
>   Harold Hartley
>   17632 N. 5th place
>   Phoenix, AZ 85022
>   wheelie207 at ownmail.net
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.phxlinux.org/pipermail/plug-discuss/attachments/20190731/82ce8a97/attachment.html>