PROBLEM!! Using PCI Card On A8N-SLI Premium

elitehacker · 03-03-2007, 07:30 AM

Bid on a very cheap budget PCI E card and see where the problem is.

PC eye · 03-03-2007, 12:50 PM

The other possibility wouldn't involve the video card being used since that has been found good but the power supply having a bad cap or something where there's a serious lack of power available. The largest demand for power excluding OCing and other things like extra devices running is mainly seen when first starting the system. Besides that look over the board itself for any discoloration or buiged caps there.

elitehacker · 03-03-2007, 01:03 PM

you can always Borrow a graphics card from someone and try it.

Sillysod · 03-04-2007, 01:18 AM

Ive tried 2 PSU's with no luck

Only other hardware I havn't replaced to test is the CPU, which is brand new and hasn't been used before! I will ask peeps at college on Tuesday if they have a spare card to lend me! But will most prob have to bid on a crap one on eBay. Would this just be the board? Or maybe just a dodgy bios version or something? As I thort PCI cards work in virtually anything?

Thanks for you're help!

Sam

elitehacker · 03-04-2007, 01:37 AM

Yeah PCI cards should work on anything, I have never heard it not working before. :S

PC eye · 03-04-2007, 04:11 AM

It won't work on boards without pci slots for sure! But the one item of updating the bios in case that came incomplete or somehow bacame goofed up could explain the problem to some degree. But if you are seeing a board problem there you won't want to play around too long while under the dealer's warranty to see it exchanged.

elitehacker · 03-04-2007, 06:59 AM

I have yet to see a FULL ISA board, maybe that's abit ahead of my time...

PC eye · 03-04-2007, 07:54 AM

ISA? That goes back more then a decade for that! AGP and PCI replaced that old "boat anchor" technology some years ago. Even the AST 486 model I was running some years back had a 32mb pci video card in it.

03-04-2007, 01:18 AM	#4 (permalink)
Sillysod Bronze Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: England Age: 20 Posts: 99	Ive tried 2 PSU's with no luck Only other hardware I havn't replaced to test is the CPU, which is brand new and hasn't been used before! I will ask peeps at college on Tuesday if they have a spare card to lend me! But will most prob have to bid on a crap one on eBay. Would this just be the board? Or maybe just a dodgy bios version or something? As I thort PCI cards work in virtually anything? Thanks for you're help! Sam __________________ CPU - AMD Phenom 955 X4 BE HS - Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro MoBo - Gigabyte MA770T RAM - Crucial Battlax 2GB DDR3 Dual 1600MHz HD - 2 x Samsumg Spinpoint 500GB HDD Graphics Card - ATi Radeon HD 4850 PSU - Thermaltake 430 Watt TR2 PSU Sound - Creative Audigy 2 ZS OS - Windows 7 Pro

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03-03-2007, 07:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
elitehacker Diamond Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 20 Posts: 2,413	Bid on a very cheap budget PCI E card and see where the problem is.

03-03-2007, 12:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	The other possibility wouldn't involve the video card being used since that has been found good but the power supply having a bad cap or something where there's a serious lack of power available. The largest demand for power excluding OCing and other things like extra devices running is mainly seen when first starting the system. Besides that look over the board itself for any discoloration or buiged caps there.

03-03-2007, 01:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
elitehacker Diamond Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 20 Posts: 2,413	you can always Borrow a graphics card from someone and try it.

03-04-2007, 01:37 AM	#5 (permalink)
elitehacker Diamond Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 20 Posts: 2,413	Yeah PCI cards should work on anything, I have never heard it not working before. :S

03-04-2007, 04:11 AM	#6 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	It won't work on boards without pci slots for sure! But the one item of updating the bios in case that came incomplete or somehow bacame goofed up could explain the problem to some degree. But if you are seeing a board problem there you won't want to play around too long while under the dealer's warranty to see it exchanged.

03-04-2007, 06:59 AM	#7 (permalink)
elitehacker Diamond Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 20 Posts: 2,413	I have yet to see a FULL ISA board, maybe that's abit ahead of my time...

03-04-2007, 07:54 AM	#8 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	ISA? That goes back more then a decade for that! AGP and PCI replaced that old "boat anchor" technology some years ago. Even the AST 486 model I was running some years back had a 32mb pci video card in it.