- Joined
- Nov 1, 2001
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- New Iberia, LA
Hey guys, I ran into a problem last night with my test system. I just rigged up to start testing a new heatsink for review and after installing it looks like I might have had a PCI-e bus failure on the board. I went to boot after the installation and got 1 long and 3 short beeps and no video. I took the vid card out and reseated it, no good. I then replaced it with a 6600GT card was was working when I took it out of service and no good. I then went and tried installing in the second PCI-e slot and still the same beep code and no boot with both video cards. Finally, I removed the PCI-e vid cards and installed an old PCI Radeon 9250 vid card I keep for testing and booted and runs fine. Before going to the new heatsink, the 7900GTX vid card that was installed was doing just fine and I didn't remove the mobo or any connectors off it when taking the old heatsink off and installing the new one. I even cleared the cmos and no good either.
The motherboard is a vanilla Asus P6T. Anyone else have this board and have it doing weird stuff? Also, I am wondering if somehow the new heatsink's mount could be doing something to the PCI-e interface on this mobo too. After I make my first set of runs on the board with this heatsink and go for mount #2, I am planning to reinstall the heatsink I had on it that everything was running fine with and boot with the 7900GTX back in and see if everything comes up.
So what do you think is going on?
The motherboard is a vanilla Asus P6T. Anyone else have this board and have it doing weird stuff? Also, I am wondering if somehow the new heatsink's mount could be doing something to the PCI-e interface on this mobo too. After I make my first set of runs on the board with this heatsink and go for mount #2, I am planning to reinstall the heatsink I had on it that everything was running fine with and boot with the 7900GTX back in and see if everything comes up.
So what do you think is going on?