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Thread ID: 102758 2009-08-31 07:56:00 On Board VGA and PCI Express VGA Card Part 2! Not Working!! mark1978 (13845) Press F1
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805687 2009-08-31 11:31:00 Umm I know with certain ASUS mobos, for every USB device thats plugged in, it used to beep as well. Dont know whether this applies to your mobo tho.

If you do not feel happy with changing a BIOS then don't.

Where did you get the new PCIe card from? It may be a dead on arrival card. This can happen so I would suggest you think about returning same.

I have an Asus Motherboard and very often I will leave a thumb drive sitting in a USB port. No extra beeps.

HTH. 		Sweep (90)
805688 2009-08-31 11:34:00 I didnt say EVERY mobo I said certain ones. Try reading things PROPERLY before you whinge Speedy Gonzales (78)
805689 2009-08-31 11:46:00 SO! Thanks GOD!! everything is working again, except for the video card, we have got a feeling its stuffed! Once everything was running again we tried it ONE more time, but.. again, no post... 3 beeps and no display on the screen.

There are some settings in the bios that you can change but we do not feel comfortable messing with it.

There is hardly any dust in the machine, its a week old! lol

And yes we have take precaution re: building the card in..

So if this machine is one week old why is it not under warranty.

Sorry about these questions but a number of people have tried to give you the best information based on your replies to questions. Some people have researched and spent time doing this for no apparent reward for which I hope you will thank them.

You have to realise that helpers here can't see what you see and we don't know what is happening at your end. 		Sweep (90)
805690 2009-08-31 12:05:00 I didnt say EVERY mobo I said certain ones. Try reading things PROPERLY before you whinge

Thanks Speedy but in this case we have been told the Motherboard we are dealing with have we not? Which is why I went to the trouble of downloading the Manual for the said Motherboard and actually read the relevant parts or the parts of the manual which seem relevant to me.

Now if we take the original poster at face value I can only give my best advice based on information received.

Would you like me to send you a manual for the Motherboard involved as posted?

Possibly the original poster has a different Motherboard in which case I may be totally wrong. It may be that some people have access to further information via PMs etc and it may not be what I thought it was. 		Sweep (90)
805691 2009-08-31 12:39:00 Some motherboards will automatically disable the onboard graphics when you attach a new video card, However they don't automatically switch back when you remove it again.

This is likely what caused your problem with no display at all until you reset the BIOS by removing the battery and thus re-enabling the onboard video.


What you can try doing is changing the BIOS setting to only use the PCI-E card, then saving and turning the PC off (it might complain and beep about no video card at this point)

THEN put the new card in and turn it on. If that doesn't work then the new card is probably broken or your PCI-E slot is faulty. 		Agent_24 (57)
805692 2009-08-31 13:00:00 Some motherboards will automatically disable the onboard graphics when you attach a new video card, However they don't automatically switch back when you remove it again.

This is likely what caused your problem with no display at all until you reset the BIOS by removing the battery and thus re-enabling the onboard video.


What you can try doing is changing the BIOS setting to only use the PCI-E card, then saving and turning the PC off (it might complain and beep about no video card at this point)

THEN put the new card in and turn it on. If that doesn't work then the new card is probably broken or your PCI-E slot is faulty.

Possibly and then again I have not taken the time as you have to find out more about the card and which PCIe slot it was inserted. There are two slots and quite frankly I don't know where the new card was installed. 		Sweep (90)
805693 2009-08-31 20:13:00 Thanks for all your guys replies, and to get back to sweeps comment, we are very appreciative of people that have spent time and effort for finding solutions for this problem, please do not think we are to lazy to research our selfs!

A special thanks to Agent 24 for his post, There is a setting in the bios called initiate graphic adapter, it is set at the moment on PCI/IGD Other options are: IGD PCI/IGD PCI/PEG PEG/IGD

The PCI Express card is not a new one, we got it secondhand of trade me but it stated no where in the auction that it was faulty. My wife is going to email the seller today.

Thanks again for all your efforts, much appreciated
Mark & Cherie 		mark1978 (13845)
805694 2009-08-31 20:50:00 Beeps usually indicate that the card is not seated correctly.
Or it doesn't have sufficient power to it.

Never mind websites, if it requires it's own power then there will be a socket (6pin ususally or maybe molex) at the end of the card. If it has one, plug in power. 		pctek (84)
805695 2009-08-31 21:55:00 There is a setting in the bios called initiate graphic adapter, it is set at the moment on PCI/IGD Other options are: IGD PCI/IGD PCI/PEG PEG/IGD

PCI = Graphics adaptor in a PCI slot
IGD = Integrated Graphics (device?)
PEG = PCI Express Graphics

Try setting it to PEG/IGD

Obviously if you are using a single card in a crossfire motherboard, use the top slot.

Make sure you set any jumpers or switch cards accordingly


Beeps usually indicate that the card is not seated correctly.

That too. They can often seem like they are plugged in properly but aren't. Just need 1mm more of travel before they lock in the slot properly.

When it goes in properly you should hear a nice click as the slot locking mechanism goes into place 		Agent_24 (57)
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