Gigabyte M-ATX With Onboard 7100: No Display, Faulty?

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Hey guys,

I'm upgrading my HTPC so I bought a Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H motherboard for it. This board has onboard Geforce 7100 graphics with DVI, D-Sub and HDMI output.

I don't plan to use the HDMI output, I don't even have a display that supports 1080p.

I installed the motherboard and hooked the system up to a keyboard and 720p HDTV via the D-Sub connection. The system booted up fine in terms of beeps and whatnot and even got as far as reading the OS disc, but I got no display.

1.) I got out a DVI-VGA converter and plugged it into the onboard DVI port, no display. 2.) I lugged the HTPC upstairs and connected it to my monitor, no display. 3.) I put a spare 7300GS into the machine, no display.

Everything apart from the display seems to be working fine from what I can tell in terms of audio clues. The CPU and fan power up, the hard disk powers up, the OS install CD is read etc. I've checked through the manual and on the board itself for any sorts of jumpers but there's nothing. There is simply no display, all displays stay on standby.

Do you guys think that the onboard graphics chip may be faulty?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Sincerely,
Ulfhedjinn.
 
Try a cmos reset in case its not set to boot from onboard VGA

Even if the onboard VGA is duyff id expect it to work with a PCI-E card tho
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
The system booted up fine in terms of beeps and whatnot and even got as far as reading the OS disc, but I got no display.
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Back to basics now, check PSU outputs, try the board out of it's case to eliminate shorts at the back, check CPU and memory seated correctly, try with one stick of memory. Try with non USB keyboard and/or Mouse. If all looks OK, take out the memory, usually causes the speaker to give error beeps due to memory fault.

My guess is the disc 'activity' is just the controller reset and the board isn't actually booting at all. A dud board is rare, but not unknown.

If this gets you nowhere you are then going to be trying to find another system where you can try your parts.
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
Sorry it's taken me so long to reply back, but this is what the problem was.

I forgot to connect the 4-pin connector to the motherboard. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I expect my n00b card in the post on Monday. :p

Thanks for the help guys.
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It's always easy to overlook the flaming obvious! Well done, glad you got it working.
 
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