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[ErNciLator]

Alright;

So

What's going wrong; any ideas.

Got a P5N-E board and a 8800GTX, Q6600 and corsair ram.

It starts up, and does a few beeps, but there is nothing on screen.

The keyboard lights up fine, and the harddrives spin.

I have connected both PCIe power connectors to the graphics card, is there anytihng obviously stupid im missing?

 

[Defcon5]

What have you recently changed?

 

[stickroad]

Make sure you have connected the 4 pin connector that comes out of the PSU to the Motherboard.

 

[ErNciLator]

It's a new setup

The 4 pin and 12 pin are connected; the cpu/ram must be booting, as the num lock key works on the mobo and the harddrives spin up.

Iv plugged both power connectors into the new graphics card but no output :S

 

[stickroad]

Try different Ram Slots?

 

[mattyj1085]

what power supply have you got?

 

[ErNciLator]

Corsair 520W

Im pretty sure it's powerful enough;

As I said it gets to the num lock point; so it's not the ram.

Do bios updates have to support graphics cards?

 

[keogh]

Prob wont be this, but when I am in trouble Im pen to any suggestions

When I updated to the latest BIOS on the same board you have, I had the same, blank screen and nothing, but the fans spin and HDD, plus keyboard lights.

I cleared the CMOS (remove the mobo battery, moving the CMOS jumper across, wait a few seconds and put it all back). Then boot... got me back in.

As I say I very much doubt its that but its worth a try I suppose!

 

[t31os]

Something wrong with using a proper thread title?..

 

[mattyj1085]

as stated above try reseting cmos as ive had just a blank screen with harddrive spining etc after a failed overclock attemp and reseting it should fix it

 

[ErNciLator]

alright

ill try that now,

do you have to remove the battery to reset it on the p5n?

(just been looking at the manual)

 

[ErNciLator]

tried didnt work.

When you guys had this error it sounded exactly the same?

and yer I flashe dit by removing battery, jumper, battery in, jumper back.

 

[mattyj1085]

what colour slots have you got the ram in? have u tried putting in the others also you tried it with just one stick and tried reseating grahics card

 

[danoliver1]

What heatsink are u using, does it use a metal backplate if so is it shorting out the board?
My tuniq tower was shorting my board same symptoms as you, just used masking tape to cover it and now all is ok.

 

[ErNciLator]

alright

just removed the 8800gtx and put an old pci graphics card in.

it booted;

So its something to do with pcie slot, or how it's connected or somthing. (not the memory)

the bios is 401 - reckon upgrading to next version (latesT) will have any effect? Doubtful different bios support different graphics cards?

 

[mattyj1085]

you tested the graphics card in another machines might have a dud one

 

[g00dsh0t]

it sounds to me m8 that you have not connected the pci-e power connections properly. if you have used the 1 cable from your psu(with1 or 2 pci-e ends on) and used it to power both power connections on the card it does what you have described on a GTX. It needs 2 seperate power connections from psu and not 1 split into 2
hope this helps , c ya

 

[keogh]

it sounds to me m8 that you have not connected the pci-e power connections properly. if you have used the 1 cable from your psu(with1 or 2 pci-e ends on) and used it to power both power connections on the card it does what you have described on a GTX. It needs 2 seperate power connections from psu and not 1 split into 2
hope this helps , c ya

Yeah, what g00dsh0t said!

But I reckon he has done this, the Corsair PSU (well the 620w I have does) has two holes in the PSU for the PCI-e power cables, so if he plugged one in, Im sure he would have seen the other? But I could be wrong, I often am