Intel DX79SI post issues

[jarodatkinson]

Hey All,

I'm having trouble getting my dx79si to post. It's showing code E6 (or is that EB?)...

I didn't see anything I recognize in the code list in the manual, but I found it confusing to be honest....

I have the board out, with only cpu, ram and g.c installed....

I've swapped out ram, different slots etc... I don't think it's that, and the post codes go for a while before it stops on E6, so I think the cpu is fine... The graphics card, I don't know, but I hooked up all three outputs in turn... The monitor gets a message to turn on and show output, but nothing happens....

Anyone know what that code means?

Thanks

 

[jarodatkinson]

Turns out E6 error is listed in the manual.... It's just very difficult to read because a couple of other letters or numbers are attached to those values..... besides the "is it e6 or eb" confusion....

E6 is a failure of video card initialization during post..... That makes it hang there. Further testing found the graphics card was indeed dead.

This board has no onboard graphics.... I'm guessing a normal board would still post with a faulty gc....