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Hello,
I just put together the following:
ASRock M3A770DE
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series (2x4GB) F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL
Rosewill Green Series RG630-S12 630W PSU
XFX HD-485X-ZNFC Radeon HD 4850
I am having an issue with being able to disable the Cool'n'Quiet feature. When I disable the option in the BIOS, the machine boots to strange beep code of 2 short followed by 8 medium. There is no display at all. In order to get back into the system I have clear the CMOS. It took me a while to pinpoint that Cool'n'Quiet was the culprit, but it definitely is. I have an old EVGA 8800GTS 320MB SuperClocked Edition card and put it in and it will boot just fine with Cool'n'Quiet disabled.
So, I am trying to figure out if this is a motherboard or a video card issue. I am kind of leaning toward the video card. Ignoring the warning in the BIOS about possible instability, I left Cool'n'Quiet enabled and installed Windows 7 Professional. All seemed great until I installed the AMD/ATI Catalyst 11.9 drivers. Once I did that, I received a black screen right after installation and had to hard reboot. On the next reboot, I got a hard freeze at the desktop with weird screen pixelization everywhere. The system is completely unstable now with the drivers installed. I cannot do anything without it freezing. I'd like to uninstall the drivers, but it won't even let me do that without freezing.
Any suggestions/guidance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I just put together the following:
ASRock M3A770DE
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series (2x4GB) F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL
Rosewill Green Series RG630-S12 630W PSU
XFX HD-485X-ZNFC Radeon HD 4850
I am having an issue with being able to disable the Cool'n'Quiet feature. When I disable the option in the BIOS, the machine boots to strange beep code of 2 short followed by 8 medium. There is no display at all. In order to get back into the system I have clear the CMOS. It took me a while to pinpoint that Cool'n'Quiet was the culprit, but it definitely is. I have an old EVGA 8800GTS 320MB SuperClocked Edition card and put it in and it will boot just fine with Cool'n'Quiet disabled.
So, I am trying to figure out if this is a motherboard or a video card issue. I am kind of leaning toward the video card. Ignoring the warning in the BIOS about possible instability, I left Cool'n'Quiet enabled and installed Windows 7 Professional. All seemed great until I installed the AMD/ATI Catalyst 11.9 drivers. Once I did that, I received a black screen right after installation and had to hard reboot. On the next reboot, I got a hard freeze at the desktop with weird screen pixelization everywhere. The system is completely unstable now with the drivers installed. I cannot do anything without it freezing. I'd like to uninstall the drivers, but it won't even let me do that without freezing.
Any suggestions/guidance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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