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Hello Everyone
Well, coming to the issue, my pc doesn`t boots up in the first try. It gets stuck after the "Starting windows" logo with a black screen. However, when i press the restart button, it boots up correctly. Okay, i think that`s may be confusing, so, here`s my problem explained in steps-
1. I pushed the start button on the cpu case.
2. Things go nicely until the "Starting windows" screen.
3. After this, just a black screen (not the black screen of death, it just stops booting with a black screen and the red led on the case stops blinking)
4. I pressed the restart button. It booted nicely.
5. The problem doesn`t appear as long as i`m only restarting or logging on/off but as soon as i press shut down or sleep option, the same problem happens.
I`ve a XFX HD Radeon 4350 1GB card. I tried re-connecting the vga cable to the card`s slot to no avail. GPU-Z reads its location at PCIe which means its in the PCIe slot. I tried changing the bios settings, "Init display first" to PEG and "Onboard VGA" to Enable if no exist PEG" thus disabling the onboard VGA but it too doesn`t help. Oh yeah, i forgot to tell that the problem doesn`t appear when my monitor is hooked to the onboard graphics card.
One thing i know for sure now is that the issue has something to do with the add-in card. But i`m out of ideas now. Tried upgrading and downgrading it`s drivers to no avail. Played with bios sett., didn`t help. Its so annoying that I`ve to always wait for the black screen just to press restart button and again wait for it to boot. Thanks in advance.
My specs: Intel core 2 duo E7400 @ 2.8GHz
Motherboard- Gigabyte G31M-ES2L
BIOS- Latest version
3GB Memory

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Sorry for the delay. Let us know if you still need help.

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Hello,

Run some test on Graphic Card so check the consistency. Check this article http://www.sevenforums.com/748030-post2.html

Hope this helps,
Captain

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I took it for repair. Surprisingly the problem didn't appear there. Brought it to home, problem came back.
One thing i noted that at the repair site, GPU-Z showed i nthe bandwidth field as PCI-E x16@x16 but at home it showed PCI-Ex16@x1. Is it an indication of insufficient power supply?

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Hi, you should have computer beeps if you have graphic card problem. Can you took out graphic and clean copper connector with eraser ? It might help.

Also, x16 should be speed of North bridge, and x1 is for South. South bridge doesn't have enough speed to transfer graphics, it's only for audio, network or disc. I don't get why did you get that message anyway, it doesn't make sense for GPU.

Your power supply might be the problem, or might not. How many Watt's your PS have ?

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I doubt i can open the case myself, I've not done this ever..
Regarding the PSU, i think its 200W..

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I doubt if it's dust problem coz as i already said, i got the interior cleaned at the repair site, the card worked perfectly there, brought it to home, problem returned.

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Damn, just 200 W.. For that graphic card you need at least 400 W, you should buy new one. 400 - 500 W. I have NVidia Gainward GTX260 2 GB and i have 550 W PS, and i need new one because it's to low for my graphic card.

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That's why i think that the PSU is the cause but there's also another fact to counter this i.e. didn't used to happen even when the power supply to the house is same as before..

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I can not believe you're even able to play games with that supply.. Change it as fast as you can, it's critical for rest of computer components. It is also possible that you run game for some time, but when the computer fails to get enough power, everything will freeze or restart.

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Actually, I can still 'game' titles like assassins creed 1 and 2 with just a slight decreament in FPS. Apart from that, no freezes or lockups or graphic related problem. Even ran FurMark, no errors were reported..

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You'r lucky, it appears that you have a high quality motherboard. Trust me, and change that Power Supply before something bad happen.

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Is there any rock-solid method of knowing if the psu is the real cause before i buy a new one? My pocket isn't much warm these days, it's cold.

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Your Graphic Card requires much more power! I'm sure. Just use Google.

This guy had 8800 and too low PSU
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1300701

And i'm not sure, but on your Profile it says you have OS x64, that's one more reason to buy new PSU.

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Yes i do have a x64 os. How does x64 relate to a larger PSU? Pls elaborate.

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