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A7N8X-boot problems and dead video card
Hello all.
I recently built a new system with specs as follows: Antec performance plus case w/ true power 430 watt ps A7n8x deluxe- bios rev 1008 AMD xp 2800 512 mb PNY pc-2700 memory Maxtor 60gb SATA hd Sony cd-rw generic floppy drive Gainward Geforce fx 5900xt golden sample sb Audigy gamer sound card USR performance-pro 56k modem All stock-no overclocking I put the system together and fired it up, no problems other than recognizing processor as "unknown processor" with incorrect speed. Did some research, found out I needed a bios update, downloaded and flashed bios to 1008, this problem solved. Had hell installing XP pro until I figured out that I needed to put the SATA drivers on a floppy and f6 them in. Installed xp, detected hardware, and installed drivers for all components. Test drove XP for awhile-worked ok. Installed UT 2004 played around with bots, video-card kicked ass. -Next day Went to windows update site and installed all critical updates manually, this took several hours on 56k-still no problems. After one of the last reboots for the windows updates, I got a blue screen and a lockup just after windows loaded, something about "IRQ not less or equal" Rebooted system windows ran scandisk fixed a bunch of errors and rebooted itself. -At this point the system wouldn't boot at all, no video and a repeating beep code Long-short. -Turned off system, reseated ram, and tried to boot, still no video, no beep code this time but monitor diagnostic screen said "frequency out of range" something like 256kz. Turned off system, Installed video-card in old-system, booted just fine. Installed video card back in new system, this time it booted ok except the bios had been reset to defaults. Went into bios, reset everything, when I tried to save the bios it locked up, I also noticed that some of the text in the bios screen was displayed wrong, e.g. some of the letters were green instead of blue. Turned off system, tried to reboot and got pink and white horizontal bars flashing across the screen. Reseated video card and tried again- same thing. Put video card in old system, same thing on old system. At this point I knew the video-card was fried, so I decided to try my old Geforce 3 in the new system. The first time it booted just fine, the second time no video and no boot. Now I'm scared, so I take out my gf 3 and put an old voodoo pci card in the new system, no boot problems whatsoever. I've sent the new gainward card in for warranty and should get a replacememnt sent back next week. My question is this: Could there be something wrong with the AGP slot on the motherboard that fried my video card? I don't really want to have to buy a new motherboard, but I'm leery about putting another 200$ video card back in it. Also, does anyone know anything about Asus boards and the accuracy of their cpu temp probes? Before the bios update it was reading 132 F at idle, after the bios update it went down to 109 f. Sorry so long, but I figured every little detail would help to get an accurate diagnosis. Thanks for any advice anyone can provide. |
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to defaults. Went into bios, reset everything,
when I tried to save the bios it locked up, I also noticed that some of the text in the bios screen was displayed wrong, e.g. some of the letters were green instead of blue. Turned off system, tried to reboot and got pink and white horizontal bars flashing across the screen. Reseated video card and tried again- same thing. Put video card in old system, same thing on old system. At this point I knew the video-card was fried, so I decided to try my old Geforce 3 in the new system. The first time it booted just fine, the second time no video and no boot. Now I'm scared, so I take out my gf 3 and put an old voodoo pci card in the new system, no boot problems whatsoever. I've sent the new gainward card in for warranty and should get a replacememnt sent back next week. My question is this: Could there be something wrong with the AGP slot on the motherboard that fried my video card? I don't really want to have to buy a new motherboard, but I'm leery about putting another 200$ video card back in it. Also, does anyone know anything about Asus boards and the accuracy of their cpu temp probes? Before the bios update it was reading 132 F at idle, after the bios update it went down to 109 f. Sorry so long, but I figured every little detail would help to get an accurate diagnosis. Thanks for any advice anyone can provide. did you use 1008 or 1008_D as your bios According to the asus page 1008 is for the 1.xx revision boards and if yours is a new board then It should def be version 2.xx. To me It sounds like you could have a corrupt bios but if you used 1008 instead of 1008_D then that could be your problem too.. |
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did you use 1008 or 1008_D as your bios
According to the asus page 1008 is for the 1.xx revision boards and if yours is a new board then It should def be version 2.xx. To me It sounds like you could have a corrupt bios but if you used 1008 instead of 1008_D then that could be your problem too.. I used 1008, my board is revision 1.04. With a pci video card, it boots just fine every time. So I'm thinking that either the cards are not seating right, or something is wrong with the AGP slot. I was just wondering if anyone had ever heard of a faulty AGP slot burning up a video card. Thanks. |
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What is different in bios 1008 then in bios 1006? I also have a 1.04
revision board. "lefthandblack" wrote in message om... did you use 1008 or 1008_D as your bios According to the asus page 1008 is for the 1.xx revision boards and if yours is a new board then It should def be version 2.xx. |
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Have you gone into the bios and selected the AGP VGA Card in the Bios rather
than the PCI which it defaults to after the flash.... Dom "lefthandblack" wrote in message om... did you use 1008 or 1008_D as your bios According to the asus page 1008 is for the 1.xx revision boards and if yours is a new board then It should def be version 2.xx. To me It sounds like you could have a corrupt bios but if you used 1008 instead of 1008_D then that could be your problem too.. I used 1008, my board is revision 1.04. With a pci video card, it boots just fine every time. So I'm thinking that either the cards are not seating right, or something is wrong with the AGP slot. I was just wondering if anyone had ever heard of a faulty AGP slot burning up a video card. Thanks. |
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