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| Thread ID: 97505 | 2009-02-18 05:42:00 | PCI-E card install problem | Tbird650 (6754) | Press F1 |
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| 748964 | 2009-02-18 09:22:00 | I installed a motherboard monitoring software.... reboot, no video!..... took card out and reconnected video lead to onboard. Video ok .....but havent been able to run card since. So I can't imagine it's dead, just needs reconfiguring. Kind of reminds me of the how finicky windows95 used to be....unless you input everything the way it expects, and in the order it expects.....it throws a fit. Bios is set to PCI-E. |
Tbird650 (6754) | ||
| 748965 | 2009-02-18 17:28:00 | Have you tested the card in another pc? | davidmmac (4619) | ||
| 748966 | 2009-02-18 17:43:00 | Have you tried uninstalling that mobo monitoring software? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 748967 | 2009-02-18 20:30:00 | Possibly the onboard vidio was re-enabled during the reboot. There was a clash between the 2 & neither worked. As sugested uninstall the monitoring software. Refit the other card & connect your monitor to it. Start the system, go straight to bios, disable the onboard vidio & reboot. With any luck it should start up with default drivers. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 748968 | 2009-02-19 05:46:00 | Have you tested the card in another pc? Regretfully all other PC's within range haven't got a PCI-E slot. Have you tried uninstalling that mobo monitoring software?You bet it's gone....was the very first thing to go once I got running again. Refit the other card & connect your monitor to it. Start the system, go straight to bios, disable the onboard vidio & reboot. With any luck it should start up with default drivers.This doesnt work sorry, because theres no display....no bios.... no nothing, through the card. Only the onboard video currently works. It looks as though I need to configure the card using the onboard graphics, then: ....power down.... disconnect cable.... reconnect cable to video card.... power up. The bios is set to PCI-E as primary video. and each time I've looked. I'll check it again and post back. I've found this good sounding forum on the card, so am going to step by step the procedure exactly and see: answers.yahoo.com |
Tbird650 (6754) | ||
| 748969 | 2009-02-19 06:53:00 | Good news, the card works! I followed the instructions in answers.yahoo.com to the letter as best I could. I took particular note of the bios settings. I scratched around there and decided to change 2 suspect items. Primary dispaly adaptor: was already set to...PCI-E Plug&Play O/S: changed to yes (for p&p capable system & don't need bios to configure). Power up on PCI/PCI-E devices: changed to enable (PME to wake up from S5 by PCI devices & NV onboard Lan). In hindsight, once I had the initial crash, I reset the bios to default and it would have lost the setting needed to allow vista to find the card. Smart thinking would be to take notes of the settings. So I wonder if the bios allows me to save my own set of special settings as an updated default setting archive? Any comments on these bios changes? |
Tbird650 (6754) | ||
| 748970 | 2009-02-19 06:56:00 | Glad you got it sorted. | Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 748971 | 2009-02-22 09:15:00 | I spoke too soon about it being fixed. It doesn't find the card approx half the time I warm or cold boot. I had yet another poke around the bios and changed back the setting "Plug & Play OS" ...set to "no".... so allows bios to configure devices. Will reboot now and see what happens.... |
Tbird650 (6754) | ||
| 748972 | 2009-02-22 09:53:00 | Well, I'm back . Booted Ok that time . What's confusing is whether I should have the bios setting "Plug and Play O/S, on or off . The item specific help reads: When set to "no", the bios configures all the devices in the system . When set to "yes" and if you install a plug&play O/S, the O/S configures the plug and play devices not required for boot . Anyone throw any light onto this? |
Tbird650 (6754) | ||
| 748973 | 2009-02-22 10:26:00 | I usually put P&P on YES. Never had a prob with windows not recognising anything |
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