Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Video card not recognized at boot pci-e slot?

my internal videocard crapped out on my ati radeon express 200 motherboard. I can turn off the internal video via BIOS. When I insert the video card into the pci-e slot the machine will not start the boot sequence. No action on the hard drive at all. ANy ideas what setting I may need to update in BIOS to get the PCI-e slot recognized? My power supply is plenty big at 430W... that was the first suggestion form the tech guy at the cpu store.



Thanks!|||There's no need to get into BIOS to get that internal video disabled. As far as I can see, it will automatically did that for you when you had a PCI-E graphic card inserted.



Besides, if the internal graphic were down, so will be the North-bridge chip-set. You see, internal graphic card does not have a chip of its own. The graphical part is glued into the north-bridge, which controls the memory, pci-express and talks to the south-bridge. If the graphical part was down, how can you be sure it didn't take out the memory / PCI-E function as well? I mean, they were in the same air-plane when the air-plane crashed.



Should you still don't want to acknowledge the fact that your motherboard have die, you can grab yourself a Debug card. (search Debug Card on Ebay you'll find it).



A Debug Card is basically a PCI card where you plug it into your motherboard. Soon as the PC switches on, it will carried on a series of Power-On-Self-Test (POST). The progress of the POST is shown on the debug card as LED letters and digits. With the letters and digits on where it stops, do a search on Google and you'll find which part of the POST (which hardware) it failed.



Note, some debug card also shows 3.3v, 5v and 12v at the same time. Should one of these LED fail, you know its the Power Supply.



BTW, I guess you didn't bring the PC to that Computer tech guy to carry out a check before you buy that Power Supply. Cause if you did, I will never go into that shop again.



... 430w... is that Antec Earthwatt 430 or Corsair CX430? So long as it isn't Cooler Master extreme 430 then that's fine.

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