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Old 9500GT wont work.

pespro

pespro

pespro

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Hi,

Ive got a P5NE-SLI motherboard.

I moved down my 9500GT into the 2nd PCI-E slot and installed a GTX 480 into the primary slot. The machine booted and has deteced the GTX 480.

However, even though air is comming from the 9500GT in the 2nd PCI-E slot it wont work, also it does not appear in Device Manager.

I have re-seated the card and it is definatly is in correctly, plus air is comming from it.

I was looking at the manual for the board and it said multi monitor mode is enabled automatically if SLI mode is disabled. I have left the red SLI board in its default position so i pressume that means SLI mode is disabled.

Had a brief look in the BIOS but not really sure what to look for.

Any ideas whats wrong?
 
You need to enable SLI mode as that activates the second slot and switches the board from a single x16 PCI-E slot to a pair of x8 slots.
 
Monkeynut said:
You need to enable SLI mode as that activates the second slot and switches the board from a single x16 PCI-E slot to a pair of x8 slots.
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Cheers for reply mate.
I assume you mean the red card that says single or dual mode on the motherboard.

I took the 480 out of the primary slot but got a beep on boot when the 9500GT was in the 2nd slot on its own, even when dual mode was selected. Just got the 9500GT in the primary slot on its own and its working, so not a problem with either cards.

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Just tried both cards with the dual setting on the motherboard and it still doesnt show the 2nd card in device manager or display anything from the 2nd card.
 
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That's very unusual. Your board is getting on - it may be too old. You might need to wait for someone with that board to reply to confirm it though.
 
Monkeynut said:
That's very unusual. Your board is getting on - it may be too old. You might need to wait for someone with that board to reply to confirm it though.
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Already got a new PSU just for this graphics card, dont want to buy a new motherboard to lol!

I was thinking of upgrading the BIOS, but dont want to if something else is available, not done that before.

On the Asus website it states to rename the BIOS download as the motherboard name.ROM then put it on a floppy, i havent got a floppy drive but i pressume if i put it on USB i could make the BIOS look on there?
 
pespro said:
Already got a new PSU just for this graphics card, dont want to buy a new motherboard to lol!

I was thinking of upgrading the BIOS, but dont want to if something else is available, not done that before.

On the Asus website it states to rename the BIOS download as the motherboard name.ROM then put it on a floppy, i havent got a floppy drive but i pressume if i put it on USB i could make the BIOS look on there?
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Your BIOS will need to support that. More modern boards have the flashing program built in, but yours might not. Have a look at the options you get when you first boot on the booting page. (F2 for setup etc)
 
It did let me update the BIOS via USB but that didnt solve the problem.

It set an SLI setting to disabled and Video to PCI so i changed them to auto and enabled respectively, but it still doesnt show the 9500GT in the device manager.
 
Id the 9500 detected in device manager? Are you using the PCI-E x1 slot for anytthing as i think that disables the 2nd x16 slot
 
MeatLoaf said:
Id the 9500 detected in device manager? Are you using the PCI-E x1 slot for anytthing as i think that disables the 2nd x16 slot
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The issue is now fixed. The red SLI single/dual card thing was not slotted in properly.
Even though i thought it was in right i thought might as well check it and pushed it in really hard each side, made a loud click and then both cards were picked up.

Thought would have got an error in BIOS if the card was not in right.
 
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