Asus P5N-D board has problems accepting other GPUs. Is it the board?

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Right now there is a GeForce GTX 260 in it and 4 GB DDR2 RAM. I would like to use the card for something else and put a simpler card and simpler PSU in there. Trouble is - the board won't accept new cards in either of the 2 PCI-express slots. Doesn't matter if it's an older card or a newer card. Doesn't even matter matter if it's a gaming card listed as compatible with the board or something much simpler (also listed as compatible (I tried a bunch of cards all of which have no issues with other computers. - No signal to monitor. The only card that I got working in it was ASUS EN210 SILENT/DI/1GD3/V2(LP). But again, - I need that particular card for something else - it's new out of the box and I have a bunch of older but perfectly functional cards. Anyone has an idea? Thanks.
 
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Might need the drivers for the card to be installed prior to it being used/recognized. Try connecting through onboard graphics first to download and install the drivers for whatever GPU you plan to use.
 
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That would be dandy, except there is no onboard graphics card for this board. I wonder if BIOS issues could be responsible? I am also not sure what drivers have to do with it. It's the BIOS that doesn't recognize the card is in the PSI Express slot. If it were the OS, - I should at least get BIOS to post on the monitor, but the screen would go dark again when the system boots up, no? That would indicate to me that I should first install the Windows drivers for the card. This did happen with 1 or 2 PCs I built, but normally, with absolute majority of boards in over 4 dozen PCs I built for people - the card will be recognized by BIOS, and when system loads - generic Windows driver will pick it up with 800 X 600 resolution. It is only after that that the card's drivers will need to be installed to get Aero and higher resolution, as well as sleep function available. If this is a BIOS issue - what settings could be responsible for it? What should I look to change? Could a dying CMOS battery be the issue or would a CMOS reset be a good idea? (The system time is correct though and I recall that with dying CMOS battery - the system time starts lagging or going back to original time board was manufactured. Also there should be "Checksum error" and CMOS defaults loading each time I reboot, unless there are subtler manifestations as well). What do you think?
 
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Well, the board is accepting the gtx 260, so I don't think it's a hardware issue, as in your PCIE slot is fine. What happens when you reset the BIOS? Wouldn't hurt to try.

Any beeps at startup?
 
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I think the PCIE 1.0 cant accept newer cards, i have Asrock 775Dual-Vsta i've tried GT520 and it wouldn't work, i've read somwhere that 400 series and below can be run on pcie 1.0.

The problem may be if you install new gpu and try to install drivers it would says that it couldn't find your GPU and in Device manager would say triangle with warning.

Try latest bios.
 
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To answer both of you... (and thank you for answering - I really appreciate your help), yeah I will reset CMOS, change battery, go back to BIOS defaults. If this doesn't help I will flash BIOS. It's weird that I have an old card with only 128 Mb which I use for troubleshooting, because it works in absolutely all boards, the only reason I don't toss it is to test PCI-E slots and no signal to screen problems. And even that card also won't work in this board. LOL Yeah, I totally foresee that happening with Device manager. Catch 22. I'm also a bit fearful that after I reset BIOS to defaults or flash it - no card at all will work in either of the 2 PCI-E slots, not even the original old one, that used to work, and I will have a useless RMA board on my hands. This would suck as I don't have other boards that will work with that Pentium Core Quad CPU. By the way - what do you guys think of Asus BIOS flash online utility has anyone used it? How safe is it? I usually prefer not to flash BIOS unless absolutely necessary as I have intermittent electric problems in my building.

No, no beeps at startup, I wish there were - that would at least give me some idea as to what's happening... All the cards that I have so far put in - their fan either doesn't start spinning right away, doesn't spin at all, or (with 2 of the cards, - a gaming and a simpler, older one) - fan starts spinning right away but still no signal to screen from either DVI or VGA ports, which is a bit bizarre, all the while the board is silent - no beeps, DVD-RAM spins checking for disk, and the hard drive light is flashing and there are keyboard lights, from what it looks like - it appears the system is loading - just no signal to screen.
 
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To be honest I don't see what BIOS flash would accomplish, as some of these cards that don't want to work are even older than the board itself. But I am going to put aside some time the coming weekend, take a thorough look at its current BIOS settings and if I see nothing odd that stands out (like primary GPU slot set for PCI rather than PCI-express, IRQ conflicts, etc.) I will reset BIOS to defaults. If that doesn't help, I will do a BIOS flash, and see if that gets the newer cards to work with it. Will let you know how it went...
 
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LOL Don't know yet. I got swamped with work on the weekend, (I'm running a small PC related business so there aren't set days, my schedule is all over the place). I didn't get a chance to go back to that board. Just checked the BIOS settings quickly and everything looked just fine, no red flags of any sort. I will post a response as soon as I got this one figured out
 
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Did you managed to get it to work?
I have the same problem only difference is my PC was off for a few years and when I try to put it on I have no graphics using the same card that was working for years. CMOS battery was dead so replace it, so BIOS was set to Default.
No I can't get my PCI-e card to work. I get error beep code related to no graphics.
When I install a normal PCI graphics card I get display
 
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