Nothing on monitor when PCI card is installed - A7N8X-X

[upnatom]

I've recently purchased an Asus A7N8X-X with AMD 2500+, 256 MB RAM and a Radeon 9600XT.

All works well until I put a PCI card into it. When a PCI card is installed (I've tried two sound cards and a scsi card) there is nothing on the monitor - cant even get into BIOS.

I've trawled through the BIOS trying different options, but nothing has worked. I've also flashed the latest BIOS update (1009) from ASUS - no help.

When I take take the PCI card out, all is well again.

Has anyone seen this problem before?

thanks

[bassman]

Welcome to SysOpt! :)

Did you try different PCI slots? I have a PCI sound card on mine and it works pretty fine, are you sure the cards you tried are working properly?

[upnatom]

Thanks Bassman - working now (kinda..)!!


I'm getting strange behaviour now in XP, though - when Windoze fires up, i get a heap (ie ~20) "new hardware found" messages - mostly for "PCI Device"....

any ideas...?

[ukulele]

Reset CMOS or reset bios to defaults. It could just be the way bios is approaching plug and play. Also check the installation instructions for the cards. Some require that you install drivers before installing the card.

[crusious31]

I find it best to install one card and its drivers at a time, and make sure the card is working properly before installing another.

[Tweb]

Make sure the new PCI card is not in the top PCI slot near the AGP slot, it shares an IRQ with the AGP slot.

Find the IRQ table for ur MB an u'll see wich PCI slots share resources with other PCI/AGP slots, u may find it in ur MB owners manual.

[rmanet]

Originally posted by Tweb
Make sure the new PCI card is not in the top PCI slot near the AGP slot, it shares an IRQ with the AGP slot.

Find the IRQ table for ur MB an u'll see wich PCI slots share resources with other PCI/AGP slots, u may find it in ur MB owners manual.

yeah - try another slot - but you might still have an IRQ conflict - some cards won't share one.

I usually disable my second serial port to free up one - works almost all the time :t

p.s. can't remember but at one point I had a radeon card that just simply wouldn't run with my MB no matter what I tried - got another brand card and worked just fine

[Recordlord]

You might want to check in the bios for a setting for video - PCI or AGP.