No PCI Video on NF7 ?

xboy

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• Sep 18, 2003

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I have an old S3 PCI Video card which can't run on my mobo?! The PC beeps once instead of twice and the monitor turns on but without any picture. What I have to do to make this f..... card to start ?

 

bluestreakLB

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• Sep 18, 2003

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Have you tested the video card on any other system?

The system will not post if the video card is bad.

 

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xboy

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Yes, the card is working on other systems (with KT133A chipset)

 

Zim2411

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don't you have to set the primary video source as the PCI?

In which case you would need an AGP and PCI card. Get into the bios and do something in there...


I HAVE NO IDEA!!

 

amdperson

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• Sep 19, 2003

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i think the cmos defaults the setting to pci when it is reset.

Not 100% sure though.

 

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yea default is pci... then if there's no pci it shoudl look for agp

 

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xboy

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Cleared the BIOS, and started the PC with the PCI card without AGP and it didn't worked. I'm with BIOS 10. I'll contact Abit's support

 

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• Sep 19, 2003

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xboy said:

Cleared the BIOS, and started the PC with the PCI card without AGP and it didn't worked. I'm with BIOS 10. I'll contact Abit's support

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let me know how it goes .. I was thinking of buying a PCI VGA card to test motherboards ... and this issue got me thinking ... hmm

 

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I got a Savage 4 with 32mb pci card to work with my NF7-S.

 

Aslan

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• Sep 19, 2003

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My Matrox Millenium 2 4 Meg works fine with my NF7-S v2.0

I read that if you have a SATA hard drive, then there is an incompatibility issue with PCI video cards.

 

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frisco204

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my older radeon(pci) did not work. but my older older ati 4mb rage pro worked.

 

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xboy

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no sata drives (it's NF7 non S). May be this card is just incompatible with the mobo

 

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• Sep 20, 2003

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Don't Rule out everything else yet...Sometimes the nf7's don't post period if you have RAM issues.

 

skou

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I had a problem with my NF7 not showing anything after the first POST screen (the one that shows the IDE drives). After I flashed the BIOS to the newest one, it went away. Had to use an AGP card to flash BIOS, using Abit's Windows flash program.

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Tried with bios 10, now i'm with 18. Still not working