Motherboard Doesn't Support Geforce

[DWk]

yeps.... i live in guatemala and mobo's are expensive here...not to mention a little outdated. for example, if you want to buy a new vid card....the only card you get here is the fx5200...... not even an fx5600

[dudevenezuela]

Well that's for sure that here mobo are expensive but that's not the point...Thanks everybody for the help.. I will try updating the BIOS though i didn't want to mess with the BIOS cause i'm not that expert so i'm afraid to mess up my pc

And I'm not 100% sure that will solve the problem

[Mr. Elmo]

Originally posted by GCNaddict@5 January 2004 - 19:25
all i will say is to get a new mobo. theyre only 100-150

yes, that is all that you will say....in almost every post for help....you give advice (if thats what you want to call it) such as "go buy a new xxx" that doesnt help them out now does it? if they want to get a new component, im sure they would have w/o you telling them.

when you say "mess with bios" does that mean you never went into the bios? but if its not set to pci, it doesnt matter, as long as you disable the onboard in device manager....my moms comp is set to onboard gfx in the bios but she uses a mx440 fine.

[Neo 721]

In situtions like this replacing may be the only option, could be as much as 1 damaged track along the board.

[cwctv]

Why update the bios

Just go in there and put it on "pci" primary bootup if not you will not see anything until it gets into windows.

First go into Windows and remove the display driver see if its under Add/remove programs in the control panel (your looking for anything with SiS),if not remove by hand when it finds it again point to a normal pci primary yes it might say there is another best for the job take no notice reboot machine.On entrying Windows it "might" pick it up again just say use the ones already installed.

Now turn the machine off put in the new card restart still using the "old" cards video out socket get the new cards drivers on and turn off don't reboot now swap the cable over IF you don't see a display of your memory count etc turn the machine off change the cable back and take the new one out your not going to get it to work,once back into Windows reload your drivers again for the old card.
Hope you understand this.

[Project E-01]

Neo, the problem is an outdated mobo, not a damaged one. IF you read, you'd know that. Jeeeez

Dud - as has been said already, simply changing the adapter settings in the bios should be enough to get it to go.

[dudevenezuela]

Look what i found

Pretty much the same u all say

Bad news for me
:'(

THANKS ANYWAY

[dudevenezuela]

Somebody can confirm what they said in the link "bad news for me" ??

and then close this thread if it is so

[Smurfette]

Hmm, that's interesting.
The only reasons I can think of for a system not booting when a PCI video card is installed (when it's supposed to be able to...) are:
-video card not properly seated in slot,
-faulty video card,
-faulty mobo,
-insufficient power from PSU, or
-mobo not fully PCIv2.1 compliant.

Although I wouldn't put it past PCChips to produce a board with an inherent bug that would cause such problems (except in the last case above on a very old board), I'd look into the other possibilities first. And I'd save some money up to get a better mobo while I'm at it.

If you lived in my area, I'd give one of my spare cards to help you out.