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Has anyone experienced the following?
This week - I spent the better part of a day moving two brand new P5Q-E boards in and out due to no VGA detected.
The box would start, fans would come on...power is solid...but no BIOS...no post...no nothing. I checked RAM, optical drives...everything...until I finally managed to reset the CMOS and get one short 5 minute period of sounds from the internal speaker. One long and three short each time.
Asus manual for the P5Q-E states this signal means no VGA detected.
The video card in question is the eVGA 8600 GT (Not the GTS and not a card with a PCI-E power connector). This card is only about 9 months old. First I thought because this is a "Crossfire" labeled board that is may have issues with anything nVidia. Tried the blue slot first...then the middle black and finally the lower black - all leading to nothing.
Conversely - I have two brand new boxes just built with the P5Q board (just the plain P5Q) both using the eVGA 8600 GTS 256MB (with the 6 pin PCI-E connector) and they work fine. As a side note - during my day long ordeal this week - I did take this 8600 GT card and placed it into one of the new boxes with the plain P5Q - and it also did not boot. Sound familiar?
Of course - take the card over to my Intel DP35DP and it works fine. So I smell a real comparability problem with either this card and the motherboard series itself. A quick google search is starting to show others having the same issues....
Anyone have any idea just what the heck is going on here?
Cheers!
VP
This week - I spent the better part of a day moving two brand new P5Q-E boards in and out due to no VGA detected.
The box would start, fans would come on...power is solid...but no BIOS...no post...no nothing. I checked RAM, optical drives...everything...until I finally managed to reset the CMOS and get one short 5 minute period of sounds from the internal speaker. One long and three short each time.
Asus manual for the P5Q-E states this signal means no VGA detected.
The video card in question is the eVGA 8600 GT (Not the GTS and not a card with a PCI-E power connector). This card is only about 9 months old. First I thought because this is a "Crossfire" labeled board that is may have issues with anything nVidia. Tried the blue slot first...then the middle black and finally the lower black - all leading to nothing.
Conversely - I have two brand new boxes just built with the P5Q board (just the plain P5Q) both using the eVGA 8600 GTS 256MB (with the 6 pin PCI-E connector) and they work fine. As a side note - during my day long ordeal this week - I did take this 8600 GT card and placed it into one of the new boxes with the plain P5Q - and it also did not boot. Sound familiar?
Of course - take the card over to my Intel DP35DP and it works fine. So I smell a real comparability problem with either this card and the motherboard series itself. A quick google search is starting to show others having the same issues....
Anyone have any idea just what the heck is going on here?
Cheers!
VP