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Tried to upgrade my 8800gt to a 460 gtx in my aw9d-max abit board, Its freezes the system on the first post screen with error code 87.
Other 975x boards have had this problem, but it has been remedied via bios update. The last bios abit released for this board was in 2008 :( is there anything I can do to get my new video card working?
The video card works fine with the same psu, same cpu, and different mainboard.
Could you try the other PCI-E port ?
Same problem on both Master and Slave pcie slots. Stuck on code 87.
Its because ABIT left everyone in the lurch.
Their products were great, but their service was always rubbish, and it continues.
lol tell me about it, I loved this motherboard but ill never buy another abit product. They dont even have american forums anymore. :crazy:
im having the exact same issues- did you ever find a graphics card that will work? I was trying to use a sparkle geForce gtx 460 on my aw9d-max and it locked up at post code 5b (which is just weird).
Abit stop making motherboards in 2008:Quote:
Originally Posted by mrhocuspocus
http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=15225
problem solved. it ended up being a power supply issue- the 460 gtx pulls an incredible amount of power, i thought my 650w psu could handle it, but i guess it was too much for it to handle. i ended up having success with an ati radeon 5770.
as long as your 650w isnt a cheapo you shouldnt have a problem. The 460gtx at most uses about 3A more than the 5770 on the 12v rail. The bios is at fault here, Im pretty sure they broke something when they "improved support for the gx2". I found a work around, if you plug a thumbdrive into the back usb port it boots fine. I believe during my troubleshooting bios v15 worked fine as well.
please help bro...im oso got post 5b code error on my aw9d-max red edition mobo with msi gtx460 768mb..
im using cm igreen 600wat psu (is it this psu not enough juice to up the gtx460?)
there is any solution bro?Quote:
Originally Posted by mrhocuspocus
yes!u a right boss.bios 17 got this issue..need to use bios 15 to get gtx460 run as normal.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrhocuspocus
there is sumthing happen to bios 17 when abit wanna improve the nvidia 7950GX2 support
thumbs up for u!:rockon:
Kind of an old thread to revive, but did anyone succeed in using the gtx 460
with the bios 1.5 or bios 1.6?
I'm asking since in order to use bios 1.5 you'd need to have a cpu prior to E8xxx.
ALso i have seen people around using GTX580 on the aw9d-max without any problem.
I installed my gtx460 on the aw9d-max yesterday, and it too got stuck on POST screen.(using bios 1.7)
Problem solved!
I downgraded the bios from 1.7 to 1.6 and that was it!
The system booted normally, driver installed...card works as it should...
Ironic...but it worked