Pete Rynas wrote:
> ECS and everyone else! should be told this board just will not support
> PCI-E unless i am completly stupid - tried everything , been building these
> things for 15 yrs.
>
On the ECS web page, I can see a couple products with similar model names.
And if the product is not shown on this page, do you have a link to the page ?
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Pro...uID=44&LanID=0
Possible explanations.
1) Video card tested on another computer ? Does it work ?
Video card power connector used, if one is available ?
2) Examining a picture of the motherboard, there are 16 pairs of
SMT caps next to the PCI Express slot. That means the slot is
fully wired. (A x16 slot with x16 wiring.) A pair of caps is used
per lane, and the differential signal pairs are AC coupled. The
video card itself, should have 16 pairs of caps near the GPU.
So your motherboard doesn't look substandard in that respect.
(Not like some boards that have x4 wiring on an x16 slot.)
3) Check BIOS settings ? Does the DVMT have a disable, so it
stops using shared memory ? Can you change "Init Display First"
setting ? When the video card is present, have you connected the
monitor cable to both the built-in graphics and to the video
card connector, to see which displays are enabled ? With the
video card installed, try using the onboard video connector,
to make BIOS changes and do experiments.
4) Low memory usage. There is a limited amount of memory for add-in
BIOS modules. A video card (at least the AGP ones), load a 64KB
image from the BIOS chip on the video card. The total memory
available is 128KB in low memory (below 640K). If you had a bunch
of RAID controllers installed in the computer, or used a NIC with
its own add-in BIOS, then you can run out of low memory. I don't see
this as a likely explanation though.
HTH,
Paul
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