possibly a bad card

APM98

APM98

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I have been asking questions about beep codes and people have been telling me it is a bad vid card or video adapter. But it doesnt do it all the time, sometimes it boots up and plays everything. I dont know why it does give me the code all the time. Also what should i do, I just got it from newegg, should I replace it? Thanks
 
APM98 said:
I have been asking questions about beep codes and people have been telling me it is a bad vid card or video adapter. But it doesnt do it all the time, sometimes it boots up and plays everything. I dont know why it does give me the code all the time. Also what should i do, I just got it from newegg, should I replace it? Thanks
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that would be a good idea just to insure its not a bad card, maybe it has a power supply short, of maybe you need to upgrade your power supply depending on what you are running, if its low wattage it could be making the card unstable.
 
Well if it works some of the time i dont think it would be a bad card. You may want to flash your BIOS with the newest one available (if there is one), and that may solve the problem.

Because if you do RMA it back to newegg, and theres nothing wrong with it, then you would have lost money shipping it to them and you may have to pay for them to ship it back. Not to mention the time spent without the card.
 
I have an Antec true power, with nothing over clocked and the bare minimum to run the comp(one HDD, one opitcal drive, video card doesnt need extra power).

How would I go about flashing the bios, sorry im a noob and have never done that before.
 
APM98 said:
How would I go about flashing the bios, sorry im a noob and have never done that before.
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Go to the Asus website and look for you model motherboard, then go under downloads and lok for BIOS updates. It should come with a flashing utility so you can flash it in Windows.
 
ok so i found this list off of the Asus website should i download one of them

it has some thing like
M2N-SLI Deluxe BIOS 0304 (Please do read the description before updating BIOS)
(Do not use EZ-Flash to flash BIOS if your BIOS version is prior 0304.)
Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx

or

Nvidia Chipset Driver Program V4.5.2.0 for Windows XP/XP MCE/2003

or

Phoenix Award BIOS flash tool version 1.18
 
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You would need the BIOS flash tool, as well as the latest BIOS. But make sure that your BIOS isnt older then version 0304.
 
i ran the flash tool but it just pops up a dos looking screen for half a second and goes away and thats it. Is it suppost to do that?
 
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