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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Bozco on April 20, 2005, 06:42:46 PM

Title: Question that you guys maybe can help with
Post by: Bozco on April 20, 2005, 06:42:46 PM

A buddy of mine just got a new mobo, Gigabyte 64-bit one.  He had to take back his agp card because this one only had pci-express.  

He gets the new pci-express card, sets everything up, powers the computer up, and gets no video output.  Can\'t even get to his bios.  Any idea why its not working?

Title: Question that you guys maybe can help with
Post by: mjps21983 on April 20, 2005, 08:14:52 PM

Ok, now if he takes this back out is it working, does the OS load up at all with or without the PCI-express card? And does he have an on board video controller on it already? Sounds like an I/0 conflict but I\'m not too sure and there are a few other geeks in here that would know for sure.

Title: Question that you guys maybe can help with
Post by: Bozco on April 20, 2005, 08:45:21 PM

Nevermind, we figured it out.

Title: Question that you guys maybe can help with
Post by: JBean on April 21, 2005, 05:12:34 AM

so what fixed it?

I had the same problem when I built my AMD64 system, my bios wouldn\'t recognize the newer 90-nm winchester cores.  It wouldn\'t even post.

I had to have a friend of mine flash an extra bios chip I had to the newer version and violia... it worked.

Title: Question that you guys maybe can help with
Post by: Bozco on April 21, 2005, 06:50:57 AM

He didn\'t know that you couldn\'t use a 3 memory stick configuration.  Finally he just took out one of his sticks and it worked.