video card / mobo not work together, very odd
Hi,
I've been frustrated by a computer problem for over a month now, and have finally found the problem, but cannot find a solution. Built the computer ground up with many high end products so in my mind it should have worked... heres what i'm working w/
GA 7N400 PRO mobo
1024 MB of DDR 3200 (Corsair XMS)
ATI Radeon 9700 AIW PRO AGP
burner cd rom... none of thats important though...
anyways the problem is when i put in my 9700... the computer will NOT boot, no power nothing.... the best i've managed to get out of it was a half turn of the fans.... take out the video card... power it on... boom everything works.... stick the 9700 in another computer... powers up... stick another video card in it.. boom it works....
i've never even heard of a problem like this... i thought it was one of two things, either the motherboard or the power supply... so i bought another power supply... still no worky (with the 9700) ... not to mention i've RMA'd a motherboard because of this
both power supplies have been verified to work... and i know the motherboard works because i now have my computer setup with a Radeon DDR VIVO that i have in my other computer...
what i've tried to fix this.... flashing the bios... installed mobo drivers.... any insight to this problem?? I've emailed gigabyte for help, i'm thinking i'll mail ATI today, but haven't got a response as of yet
looks like motherboard / video card simply aren't compatable
Well it looks like the video card and the motherboard aren't compatable. Judging from what I read in the gigabyte manual, there is no jumper to change the settings for the voltage. In theory it would automatically select the voltage. Anyways it only accepts 4x - 8x AGP cards. I've read on a website that there are ALOT of motherboards that have problems with the Radeon 9700 AIW PRO, and there were several Gigabyte boards listed. I'm looking into a DFI Lan Party, any objections to that board??
problem solved... still video card problem...
After monkey'n with this for a few weeks and not having my new computer completely up to 100% I sent the motherboard, ram, processor, & video card off to a friend of mine so he could hopefully isolate the problem. He has a better area to test it with, not to mention tons of experience with gigabyte / ati combination, and even another Radeon 9700 AIW to test it with...
There was a problem with the power being supplied to this particular video card. He asked if I tested the card without power. My answer was no because video is an essential part of your computer, and this particular card needs power to work. Once powered on without the power plugged in the computer WOULD boot, but of course it would scream at you to plug in the power.
Upon testing my video card in the other machine with the other computer with the AIW, it worked. Upon testing my friends AIW with my setup it worked. So the solution was trading video cards, I'm happy, he is happy, and that makes me not feel like an idiot and couldn't fix computer problems. This is the first case i've ever heard of anything like this so its not an ID10T error if you know what i mean :)
Thanks for the help though!