card upgrade trouble

[philip41]

Daughters P.C has Abit NF7.s ver2, athlonxp3200 running xp home.

Currently her gfx card is an old 9800pro, i have an power color x850xt pe card spare.

This afternoon i swapped out the 9800 for the x850, trouble is the machine will not boot, it does post 1 beep, then i get a further beep at approx 1 second intervals.

Put the 9800 back in and the machine boots.

Any ideas as to why would be most appreciated.

 

[J.D]

Maybe the PSU isn't up to the job of the X850?. Also can you check the X850 in another machine?.

 

[philip41]

Hi psu should be fine, it is the same psu as in the machine the card came out of.

Unfortunately my newer pc's are only pci-e.

Should add the cards power fan is spinning, so it seems to be getting power.

 

[J.D]

Maybe try a CMOS reset when after removing the 9800pro?.

 

[decto]

I'll ask the numpty question .... is the additional power lead connected to the x850 ?

I also had a real hassle with a GPU change recently with my Abit FP-IN9, it refused to boot full stop with a new card but would boot with the old one.

Despite CMOS clears and various reinstalls - reseats of everything it only started to work when I loaded 'Fail Safe Defaults' in the BIOS using the old card, then powered off and installed the new card.... your's may be called something similar.

Only found this out after removing the PSU and lashing it up to my other mainboard to test the card...

Post back your results

AD

 

[philip41]

Yeh i have reset the cmos a couple of times.


I will disconnect all unnecessary items ie: optical drives extra fans, so as to eliminate the PSU.

A guy on another board had the exact same card/board combo and the same symptoms while trying to upgrade to the same card, turned out to be his psu.

 

[decto]

Yeh i have reset the cmos a couple of times.


I will disconnect all unnecessary items ie: optical drives extra fans, so as to eliminate the PSU.

A guy on another board had the exact same card/board combo and the same symptoms while trying to upgrade to the same card, turned out to be his psu.

If that's the case it could be related to how the load is distributed accross the PSU. Try using different connectors for the additional GPU power

AD

 

[philip41]

If that's the case it could be related to how the load is distributed accross the PSU. Try using different connectors for the additional GPU power

AD

Thanks AD will do.

 

[philip41]

Update.

I have disconnected all drives and fans and just had the card connected, the problem is still there.

Starting to wonder if the card is borked.

 

[J.D]

Update.

I have disconnected all drives and fans and just had the card connected, the problem is still there.

Starting to wonder if the card is borked.

No friends or family with an AGP system that live near you?.

 

[philip41]

Might be able to try it out in my mums machine this weekend. will not give up until i have tried it somewhere.

Thanks for your interest mate.