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Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
[quote]how many pci-x does that board have and did you try all of them with that card ? also reset the bios with the clear cmos jumper on the board and try again the 990 should have no issues with that car Cant find that on this mobo. Removed battery instead. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
oh i forgot easy way to test the mobo is to remove cpu and ram and fire it up it should beep slowly and low freq beep if that happens insert cpu and fire it up you should get a high freq beeping if that works add ram and fire it up you should hear a multi beep with different speeds I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2430 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Remember that motherboards usually come with an alternative BIOS option. Typically available by means of either a button or switch on the motherboard. This does not solve hardware problems, however. |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
I can find the PDF manual for the 990fx R2.0 board, but not the original, apparently. I don't know how different those two boards really are, but I know basically every board ever has a way to clear the CMOS. Either by a 3-pin header that usually has a jumper hanging on there, or in one case, I had a board that just had the solder pads there, but the pins were never installed. Just had to pop the battery and touch something metallic to the pair of contacts that clears the memory. For good measure, I always flipped the rocker switch off on the PSU as well, and with battery ejected and clear_cmos jumped, pressed the power button to discharge every single last electron floating around. Supposedly, all you should have to do is just touch the two pins together for a few seconds with the system off, but I tried to leave no variables. I had to clear my cmos a few times on the last rig (2p Opteron 2222SE) near the end of its life when capacitors starting failing. I would be going along fine, then I'd get a weird system freeze where I could still do things, but nothing new could be loaded into memory or be written to disk, and eventually, the whole system would just freeze. I'd hit the reset button (soft-reset) and it would all come back on and be up and running just fine. Every now and then, a soft reset wouldn't work, so I had to do a cold reset (flip rocker switch off, give it a few seconds and then turn the system back on. When I did that... it wouldn't POST and the alarm on the board would give off about 15 different tones, like it was trying to say every possible error outcome simultaneously. Flip the rocker switch again, pull battery, touch the clear_cmos pins together, press power button, put jumper back to the "normal" position, put battery back in, turn rocker back on, press power button, and it would power on and do a long POST since it has to learn everything again.. frantically press del/f2 to get into BIOS....and of course, it wouldn't, because that board didn't default to having USB support, so I'd have to dig out a PS/2 keyboard and reboot again to get that to work. point is... every board has a way to clear the CMOS. Most actually have a 2 or 3 pin header for it, but every board should at least have the solder pads for it and it should be marked on the board somewhere in all of that white lettering all over the place. [edit: and I agree with what was mentioned already: the only thing you haven't changed is RAM and CPU. Even with no RAM at all, the board should still beep at you, but if the CPU is bad, it might not do anything at all. I had a friend that had a very aged Athlon64 X2 that would do almost that same scenario. Power-on, no beeps, nothing ever happens. Power cycle, press the button again, nothing. Power cycle, try again, and it would start to POST, but would hang and freeze before loading the OS. Power cycle again, power on, worked just fine. After two years of dealing with that, upgraded CPU to a Phenom X4... powered-on every single time and worked like a champ.] Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I had a rig that was dead in the water a few weeks ago. Ate it's Winders. Left it dog dead for a week, and fired up a USB DVD with the OS on it. Went into recovery mode, it took an hour or more, but it repaired the dang thing without reinstalling.. Guess I wuz kitty lucky. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
So you got short beep signal but black screen, right? What about keyboard lights? Short flash of caps/num lock/scroll lock present? And try to get any low-power PCIe VGA card as test replacement. If with replacement card you could go into BIOS disable ALL possible periferial devices and ports (even SATA ones) and try with original GPU again. |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
and reset nvram I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
Does the GPU have a BIOS/UEFI switch on it? If your MB does have UEFI then the card would need to be set to BIOS to work. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
If i could enter the BIOS. I tried a few things but still no luck. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Jeff Buck Send message Joined: 11 Feb 00 Posts: 1441 Credit: 148,764,870 RAC: 0 |
I realize that it's already been suggested that you try the card in each of the different PCIe slots, but I didn't see a response that you've actually tried that. On motherboards with multiple PCI slots, the BIOS may dictate a specific slot as the default for the boot display and if your card isn't in that slot, no signal will get to the monitor. All you'll likely get on power up are briefly flashing disk lights, a single beep, and then everything seems to stop while it's waiting for you to hit a function key or something in response to a message it thinks it's displaying. That happened to me recently when a CMOS battery died and the BIOS got reset to its defaults. I'd forgotten that long ago I had specified a slot other than the default for my video output and it drove me crazy for most of a day trying to figure out why I couldn't get anything but a black screen and that single beep! |
woohoo Send message Joined: 30 Oct 13 Posts: 972 Credit: 165,671,404 RAC: 5 |
I'm guessing the new card that you just got might be bad |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
I realize that it's already been suggested that you try the card in each of the different PCIe slots, but I didn't see a response that you've actually tried that. On motherboards with multiple PCI slots, the BIOS may dictate a specific slot as the default for the boot display and if your card isn't in that slot, no signal will get to the monitor. All you'll likely get on power up are briefly flashing disk lights, a single beep, and then everything seems to stop while it's waiting for you to hit a function key or something in response to a message it thinks it's displaying. That happened to me recently when a CMOS battery died and the BIOS got reset to its defaults. I'd forgotten that long ago I had specified a slot other than the default for my video output and it drove me crazy for most of a day trying to figure out why I couldn't get anything but a black screen and that single beep! According to the mobo Manual Default Slot is 1. Thats where it`s fitted right now. I contacted Sapphire Support, will see what that gives. Maybe i`ll try to update the Bios via Back Flash Feature. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
I'm guessing the new card that you just got might be bad Probably try Raistmers Suggestion and try a cheap Card to make sure. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
Sapphire?? That's the same manufacturer of my piece of crap R9 x390 Card does not run in a 79 chipset asus sabertooth newest bios no matter what slot put a gtx980 in it and it runs just fine stay away from these crap AMD cards they nothing but trouble ..... and yes i'm fairly pissed off because i have a 450$ door stop funny enough the card fires up in crap gateway celeron board that is 6 years old with some cheap intel chipset I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
I never had Trouble with Sapphire Cards. Anways, no Change after Bios update. A NV 610 i bought yesterday also doèsn`t work. I fear i got a bad Motherboard. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
woohoo Send message Joined: 30 Oct 13 Posts: 972 Credit: 165,671,404 RAC: 5 |
you have multiple video cards, psu, mobo. so the only other things that you didn't replace are the cpu/ram/monitor/video cable. i would say cpu damage is rare. ram can go bad but should still start, check to see if fully seated and hopefully your mobo isn't too picky about which slots you insert the ram into. hopefully you're not having a bonehead error like having the monitor on the wrong input source selection. also a video cable can go bad, pins can be damaged. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22220 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Tried the old take the battery out and stuff the motherboard in the freezer for a few hours? You've nothing to loose, just don't mistake it for a pizza later tonight ;-) Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
That is just bad advice and probably guarantee s a dead board since when you take it out water will condensate on the board and under the chips Remember water and electronics don't mix I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
Rasputin42 Send message Joined: 25 Jul 08 Posts: 412 Credit: 5,834,661 RAC: 0 |
That is not true. I washed a laptop motherboard some 3 years ago. I rinsed it with distilled water and dried it thoroughly. It has been working ever since. However, i do not see, what putting it in a freezer will accomplish.If there are any weak joints or tracks, you will break them. |
Bill G Send message Joined: 1 Jun 01 Posts: 1282 Credit: 187,688,550 RAC: 182 |
I have known the freezer trick to work for HDs, but never for a MB. As for moisture problems, that is only caused by humidity. If you have no humidity, no moisture will form. A gentle breeze with a hair dryer works great during the defrost cycle. SETI@home classic workunits 4,019 SETI@home classic CPU time 34,348 hours |
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