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niceguy3978
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Hey all, you may remember me from my last thread about all the problems I was having getting my system up and running after transferring everything over to a new case. I have a new problem now. My video card isn't working, or at least I think it is my video card.
I have an old 8800gt and it was working fine before I switched cases. Now when I transferred everything over, the video card worked a couple of times when powering on, and then it just stopped. Sometimes when I powered up the computer it would give a long beep and everything would power up fans running and all, but would get no picture, not even when I used the onboard video. Sometimes, however, everything would power up and it would give the appropriate short beep and I wouldn't get video through the video card, but when I plugged into the onboard, I would have video. Now that I completely removed the video card, I haven't had any of the long beeps and not booting properly. Any ideas? Everyone was very helpfull in the last thread so I thought I would try again before just going out and buying a new card. Thanks for any imput.
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Have you connected your 6 pin power plug into the motherboard itself and/or the powerplug to the card if that option is available too?
Although I doubt that's the case have you tried resetting CMOS ?
If you have a dedicated soundcard or anything in your PCI slots try and remove them all.
Not sure how to reset the CMOS. The 6pin aux power to the card was connected (it goes directly to the psu rather than the mb. Also, it is the only card in the case, no other pci cards.
One thing I was wondering was if it could be a similar problem to what I was having with the MB when I initially put it in the new case. There was a spacer in that was not needed and didn't line up with any of the screw holes, and was shorting out the mb, could something like this happen with the video card? I tride to make sure no wires were touching the back of the card, and it didn't look like they were.
I doubt that's the case. Try resetting CMOS by removing the battery on the motherboard. There should be a CMOS reset jumper close to it (better consult the manual for the correct location). After you remove the battery you move the jumper one spot over and leave it for about 10 seconds. Then move it back to it's original position and place the battery back in.
This resets the BIOS to factory default settings
It's a long shot since the problem is most likely not in BIOS but it doesn't hurt to try
As for the power to the card. Some boards require you to connect an extra plug to the board itself alongside the card itself. May just be a 4 or a 6 pin
I had this problem once . When I transferred as you have from one case to another, somehow the bios setting for the onboard video got turned to " enable" instead of "disable". If it is on both the card and onboard video will get confused and you get no picture. Don't know if this is the case but it can't hurt to check it.
I have the same setup as I did in my previous case, all I did was switch cases and upgrade my psu. The only power connecters my MB has is the 8 pin 12v rail connection and the main 24pin connection (plus 2 little 3 prong connectors for the fans. I may try the bios reset as I don't mess around with the bios anyway so I have no settings that should change.
Mine doesn't have an enable/disable option it has a "first try" type of option (don't remember the exact label). My old MB had the enable/disable but not this one.
Probably PEG and PCI, PEG is your PCI-E slot which you want and PCI is well PCI. Never understood why they don't just use the PCI-E label instead of PEG so people know to use it.
Have you tried another graphics card or just the onboard?
Does the motherboard have another PCI slot (even if it's not x16) you can plug it into and test out? Or access to another computer (a friend or something)?
Between the standoff that was under the motherboard, the odd beep codes, the side fan, and now this video card problem, I'm not sure what to think. The common denominator in all those problems is the power supply, but honestly it doesn't sound like a power supply problem (although it's plausible). It sounds like a failing motherboard, but the case fan being plugged directly into the power supply doesn't fit that at all.
I didn't know you could plug a pci express into a regular pci slot, I can try it and see what happens. I don't want to blow anything up..lol. I completely took out the video card and am plugged into the onboard card, and it is working fine, aside from the fact that the only mmo that will run on my computer now is WoW, which while making my son happy, makes me very sad.
If it fits in the slot without having to use a hammer it should work: it may not be as fast as normal, but it should work.
8800's have soft fill material, just moving them after they have been heated up repeatedly from gaming is risky.
So I thought I would monkey around with it a bit more, and I put the vid card back in and then the system would randomly power down, though I couldn't tell if it was the card itself causing it or because it was pushing some wires causing a lost connection somewhere else because It would happen when I would move (and when it was just sitting there. This never happened before. So I still couldn't tell if it was the video card, mb or power supply. I've been looking to upgrade my video card anyway as this one is about 4 generations old now. Maybe I'll get one of the new 7750s that seems to be on par with my card if not a bit better and draws little enough power to not even need the aux six pin connector. Of course if the problem isn't the video card then I'm still sol..lol.