Hi guys,
I ordered some new parts to UG my old rig into basically something nice, new and very shiney! The package came this morning, and like a child on a cold christmas morning, i burst open my box and fumbled to get my new toys into the open.
40 mins later and the machine is built, i flick on the power supply and..... one beep. Yep, the machine passed the bios check, great i thought, until i noticed nothing was happening on my monitor. The damned thing was stuck on standby! How dare it!! Anyways i turn off the rig, de-static myself and then had a look inside. Everything was correct and in the right place. DOH! But then a streak of genius hits me! this board hsa onboard graphics, maybe , just maybe i have to turn that off to get the PCI-e card working. So i take out the Radeon, pop the monitor into the mobo and turned on the power...Sucess! the machine turned on, beeped and the monitor came on, taking me into bios. This mobo (ASUS A8N-VN CSM Micro ATX) has the most complicated bios ever, but i did what i thought would turn the onboard VGA off and reset the mother. Annoying beeps, perfect, just perfect. But like an enthusiast i turned off the rig and popped in the 1800XT, just to check. Nothing.
So what i'm proposing to you more technically minded people out there. What the heck am i doing wrong here?
The system spec:
AMD Athlon 4000+ socket 939 (san Diego) @ 2400
ASUS A8N-VM CSM Micro ATX Mobo
Seasonic s12 500w Silent ATX2.0 power unit
2.0g DDR400 Elixir RAM
Connect3D ATI radeon XT 1800 XT 256mg (puppy on last weeks offers )
anything i can add later.
Also as a note , i cannot test the mobo or the card with another rig as my two flat mates use AGP based systems.
Thanks in advance
- Pete
I ordered some new parts to UG my old rig into basically something nice, new and very shiney! The package came this morning, and like a child on a cold christmas morning, i burst open my box and fumbled to get my new toys into the open.
40 mins later and the machine is built, i flick on the power supply and..... one beep. Yep, the machine passed the bios check, great i thought, until i noticed nothing was happening on my monitor. The damned thing was stuck on standby! How dare it!! Anyways i turn off the rig, de-static myself and then had a look inside. Everything was correct and in the right place. DOH! But then a streak of genius hits me! this board hsa onboard graphics, maybe , just maybe i have to turn that off to get the PCI-e card working. So i take out the Radeon, pop the monitor into the mobo and turned on the power...Sucess! the machine turned on, beeped and the monitor came on, taking me into bios. This mobo (ASUS A8N-VN CSM Micro ATX) has the most complicated bios ever, but i did what i thought would turn the onboard VGA off and reset the mother. Annoying beeps, perfect, just perfect. But like an enthusiast i turned off the rig and popped in the 1800XT, just to check. Nothing.
So what i'm proposing to you more technically minded people out there. What the heck am i doing wrong here?
The system spec:
AMD Athlon 4000+ socket 939 (san Diego) @ 2400
ASUS A8N-VM CSM Micro ATX Mobo
Seasonic s12 500w Silent ATX2.0 power unit
2.0g DDR400 Elixir RAM
Connect3D ATI radeon XT 1800 XT 256mg (puppy on last weeks offers )
anything i can add later.
Also as a note , i cannot test the mobo or the card with another rig as my two flat mates use AGP based systems.
Thanks in advance
- Pete