P5K-E problems
GnomeWizardd
Member 4 LifeAkron, PA Icrontian
My info on the rig is in my sig, ( omg that rhymed! )
Anywho the problem arose last night after I installed a razer barracuda sound card.I plugged it in and got a FLASH of power then nothing had a hell of a time getting it to start and only way i could get it to boot was to pull the card. So i switched the card to a diff pci slot and it booted. NOW the red light next to the 1st pci slot I tried is on ONLY when the pc is OFF when i turn it on and boot its off. Now the problem is i cat leave the sound card in that pci slot that works because it blocks the air flow in to the vid card and my temps sky rocket. Is there a way to test the PCI slot to see if it went poof or did someone have this problem. I am up and running but I am back to onboard sound for now.
Anywho the problem arose last night after I installed a razer barracuda sound card.I plugged it in and got a FLASH of power then nothing had a hell of a time getting it to start and only way i could get it to boot was to pull the card. So i switched the card to a diff pci slot and it booted. NOW the red light next to the 1st pci slot I tried is on ONLY when the pc is OFF when i turn it on and boot its off. Now the problem is i cat leave the sound card in that pci slot that works because it blocks the air flow in to the vid card and my temps sky rocket. Is there a way to test the PCI slot to see if it went poof or did someone have this problem. I am up and running but I am back to onboard sound for now.
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I ask about it only because your main isue with not using the working pci slot is because it suffocates the video card... if it's a dual slot cooler then that is not likely to be a large enough factor from what I've seen. My 3870 is a centimeter from the top of my sound card but is doing okay cooling. There's enough flow in that gap all around the intake on the gpu cooler that no video card cooler I know of needs anything more.