Greetings,
I have an Asus P4S533 motherboard that was working wonderfully for the last year, up until just a few days ago.
As best as I can remember here's what happened and here's where I think the problem lies:
Two weeks ago I had to move my computer from one location to another. Since I have much work saved on my drives, I remooved all harddrives prior to moving them. When I plugged them back in I noticed that they weren't working right. Since I was short on time, I simply RESET BIOS DEFAULTS and everything worked smoothly. That is, for about a week.
After that time, I had to return my computer to its original location. Out came the hard drives and back in they went. I fired up the system and again, it worked well.
Upon the next power on, however, the VGA card failed. (it's a PCI ATI RagePro XPert@Play card). I pulled it out and stuck it back in and got the same problem.
I thought the card was fried, so I tried it in another computer. Worked perfectly. I then took a spare AGP card I had and put it in my computer and it booted up.
At this point (the computer with the AGP card) I noticed that some devices weren't installed properly. The soundcard, IEEE card, additional USB ports and my PCI card did not seem to be initiallxing well.
For instance, my firewire card shows up in DEVICE MANAGER, but it has a (code 10) which means the device did not start properly.. Microsoft says this might be due to it being seated improperly, which I then checked again and it appears to be quite snug.
I've tried various BIOS settings to see if the PCI bus has been "disabled", but no such luck.
I guess my questions would be:
1. Is it possible to "short out" the PCI bus and still have the computer running fine?
2. Is tthre a setting in the BIOS that might prevent these devices from starting (most notably the PCI video card)
3. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?
Sorry it's so long, but any suggestions would be great.
(Also, please excuse my poor typing. I can't see the monitor from where i stand at this very moment )
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Thanks,
[dB]Luca
"He who laughs, lasts"
I have an Asus P4S533 motherboard that was working wonderfully for the last year, up until just a few days ago.
As best as I can remember here's what happened and here's where I think the problem lies:
Two weeks ago I had to move my computer from one location to another. Since I have much work saved on my drives, I remooved all harddrives prior to moving them. When I plugged them back in I noticed that they weren't working right. Since I was short on time, I simply RESET BIOS DEFAULTS and everything worked smoothly. That is, for about a week.
After that time, I had to return my computer to its original location. Out came the hard drives and back in they went. I fired up the system and again, it worked well.
Upon the next power on, however, the VGA card failed. (it's a PCI ATI RagePro XPert@Play card). I pulled it out and stuck it back in and got the same problem.
I thought the card was fried, so I tried it in another computer. Worked perfectly. I then took a spare AGP card I had and put it in my computer and it booted up.
At this point (the computer with the AGP card) I noticed that some devices weren't installed properly. The soundcard, IEEE card, additional USB ports and my PCI card did not seem to be initiallxing well.
For instance, my firewire card shows up in DEVICE MANAGER, but it has a (code 10) which means the device did not start properly.. Microsoft says this might be due to it being seated improperly, which I then checked again and it appears to be quite snug.
I've tried various BIOS settings to see if the PCI bus has been "disabled", but no such luck.
I guess my questions would be:
1. Is it possible to "short out" the PCI bus and still have the computer running fine?
2. Is tthre a setting in the BIOS that might prevent these devices from starting (most notably the PCI video card)
3. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?
Sorry it's so long, but any suggestions would be great.
(Also, please excuse my poor typing. I can't see the monitor from where i stand at this very moment )
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Thanks,
[dB]Luca
"He who laughs, lasts"