X1800XT DOA?

[Thunder]

Looking for a couple of opinions on this before I RMA the Connect3D X1800XT that got delivered today.

Spec is as follows:
AMD3700
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 mobo
2*512MB PC3200 Crucial memory
2 HDs on IDE, 1 DVD drive
brand new Tagan 530W PSU
Radeon 9800Pro AGP gfx card

I've got the new PSU installed and everything is working fine. When I replace the 9800 card with the X1800XT and switch on I get all fans spinning up (including the gfx) so everything has power. The HD sounds like its spinning up. The monitor stays completely black and I then get a bunch of about 8-10 beeps and nowt happens. Does anybody have any suggestion as to whether I can try anything else? (I have not got a second PC to try the card in)
As soon as I stick the 9800 back in everything works again.
Thanks.

 

[meansizzler]

Looking for a couple of opinions on this before I RMA the Connect3D X1800XT that got delivered today.

Spec is as follows:
AMD3700
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 mobo
2*512MB PC3200 Crucial memory
2 HDs on IDE, 1 DVD drive
brand new Tagan 530W PSU
Radeon 9800Pro AGP gfx card

I've got the new PSU installed and everything is working fine. When I replace the 9800 card with the X1800XT and switch on I get all fans spinning up (including the gfx) so everything has power. The HD sounds like its spinning up. The monitor stays completely black and I then get a bunch of about 8-10 beeps and nowt happens. Does anybody have any suggestion as to whether I can try anything else? (I have not got a second PC to try the card in)
As soon as I stick the 9800 back in everything works again.
Thanks.

is it Tagan Modular?, try flicking thw swithc on the back to combined...

 

[Cyber-Mav]

did you connect the extra power connector into the gfx card?

 

[HicRic]

You say you get 8-10 beeps, try counting them and remembering the pattern and looking in your motherboard manual for beep error codes perhaps? It might point you straight to the solution.

 

[ninjapilot]

Just an idea, did you change AGP to PciE in the bios?

Ninja

 

[Thunder]

Thanks all.
- Tagan PSU is modular and set to 'combined'.
- Power is connected to the card, tried both ports on the Tagan PSU and both cables
- I get 2 short, then the tiniest of breaks and then 9 short beeps; 11 in total
- I've now also changed the BIOS from AGP to PCI Express as the primary card. (had to put the old one back in, change it, then new one back).

After all of this I still get a black screen and the aforementioned 11 beeps. I could only find the Quick Installation guide for the ASRock mobo so couldn't verify the beep codes.

Any thoughts? I'm getting that feeling that I'll have to send it back :\
Do I have to pay for shipping the card back to OcUK or do I get a refund for that?

 

[encephalopathy]

do you have any overclocks on your cpu or voltmods on the board?

i found my dual sata II had problems saving bios settings when i had it overclocked if the voltage was set at 1.15 in the bios (actually giving 1.55v via volt mod)

have you tried booting up with agp and pci-e installed?

 

[ninjapilot]

beep codes:

The following are AMI BIOS Beep Codes that can occur.
Beep Code Descriptions
1 short Memory refresh timer error.
2 short Parity error.
3 short Main memory read / write test error.
4 short System timer failure.
5 short Process error.
6 short Keyboard controller BAT test error.
7 short General exception error.
8 short Display memory error.
9 short ROM BIOS checksum error.
10 short CMOS shutdown Read/Write error.
11 short Cache Memory bad.

Ninja

Edit: not sure if the above are any good they are old 2002
I have found this from Bios central
Link:
http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/amibeep.htm

 

[Thunder]

The board, CPU etc are totally standard.

Thanks for the beep codes Ninja. What I found by looking around is that the one I get 2 short, pause, short 9 aren't really covered anywhere

I'll try booting with both AGP and PCI-E tonight.

 

[ninjapilot]

....Also

what bios version are you running?
also i have left a link in may last post might be useful?
if using a new bios there was an option called deep fifo or something, it needs to be disabled for an ATI card could be worth a check

Good luck

Ninja

 

[Thunder]

Not sure which BIOS version, I can check that tonight. I haven't flashed it yet so it'll be factory default. Board was bought Jan/Feb this year.

Thanks for the link, unfortunately my BIOS beep sequence isn't listed. I'll check the deep FIFO thing tonight too.

 

[Thunder]

No luck on running both cards at the same time or with the deep Fifo setting. It just shouldn't be this difficult so am going to RMA it. Thanks for the help everyone.