Booting using old PCI board

AngusM · 2 Nov 2006 at 19:52

I am in process of building my new system - configuration thanks to advice given here!
Motherboard is Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H with Core2Duo 6300. Trouble is, the graphics card has nor arrived yet: GeCube ATI Radeon X1950 which you can see here: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X1950_Series.html
So I thought I could save some time by booting the system with an old PCI board in it - it's a Radeon 7200 or something I also tried a Matrox board - and setting up Windows etc.
In both cases the system starts as far as the first screen with the Foxconn logo and choices like "del for setup" "esc for boot menu" but nothing works, like the keyboard was dead but I know it is a good one.
Not having built a PCIExpress system before - should I expecxt it to boot without a PCIE graphics card in it? I assume, since the logo screen comes up, that the basics like CPU and memory are OK. Any suggestions?
Ta!

princejim · 3 Nov 2006 at 13:03

Sorry need not read the full message.

AngusM · 5 Nov 2006 at 15:26

Didn't understand this reply at all. Do I need to post more info?

Bomag · 5 Nov 2006 at 15:53

It should work with a PCI card, but I would clear the CMOS to start with.

ns400r · 5 Nov 2006 at 17:14

After you see the mesage to press 'del' to enter setup, what happens to the display? Does it just stay there displaying the same info?

If so, and you press the 'del' key and nothing happens, is that on a USB keyboard?

AngusM · 5 Nov 2006 at 17:41

The message stays there and the keyboard does not respond at all: not to "del" and not switching on the caps lock or num lock light when I press those keys. The lights flash once briefly (as normal) just after the PC is switched on - I tried two keyboards just in case of the obvious...
I was using PS/2 keyboards (and USB mouse if that makes any difference) - I just tried a USB keyboard and all I get is a long BIOS "beep" - not even any display. Is this significant?

ns400r · 5 Nov 2006 at 18:01

Don't know. Was just wondering if the bios support for USB keyboards was off and that's why you couldn't eneter the bios using a USB keyboard.

Personally I'd take the board out of the case, the CPU out of the board, clear the CMOS then start again.

**Edit** The PS2 keyboard is in the correct connector isn't it?

Rroff · 5 Nov 2006 at 19:27

I had problems with 2 old PCI cards and a new 975 chipset board whilest using it for testing... the voodoo 3 2000 PCI would work, could get into BIOS, etc. but a lot of text was corrupted, etc. etc. and a 5200 would boot but I couldn't get into BIOS and it would blank out shortly after getting to the PCI bus scan.

To add to this...

I recently killed the system in my rig... I put my E6600 into my brothers rig for testing and while the system would POST with it in, it wouldn't respond to any key presses and when it got to trying to boot windows I'd just get a media not found error and the system hung... so it is possible its a dead or partly dead CPU...