BF2S Forums PCIe Problems

Did you recently change your ram?
Cause my friend had that problem, put the ram in the wrong way and he couldn't get a signal from the monitor.

Memory can't be installed the wrong way unless you put it in the wrong slots (i.e. 1 and 4 instead of 1 and 3, etc. - depends on mobo).

Couple things you wanna do - some of these are *duh*, but it can be frustrating if you don't check everything out 100% and realize it's something simple later on.

***First and foremost - if you're going to open up and touch things inside your computer case, make sure you ground yourself by touching the computer cases steel/aluminum frame first.  Electro static discharge can severely fuck up anything inside there***

1) Check to make sure the card is firmly inserted into the PCI-E slot.  Also, I'm not too familiar with the PCI-E workings, but one might be master and the other slave - if so, play around with it and try the card in each slot - always worth a shot.

2) Make sure you have the drivers and software installed with the card correctly.  If your motherboard has a monitor port, connect your monitor there to make sure the card is installed correctly.  This SHOULDN'T be a problem, as most cards are plug and play for the most part (it would be difficult to install anything if you couldn't see it ^_^), but again this is just good housekeeping.

3) Make sure the monitor cable is secured firmly into the card and, if available, screwed in.  You may have a loose connection in your cable or something along those lines - I once got raged at my video card for doing the same exact thing, and it wasn't working simply because the cable wasn't inserted well enough.

4)  Are there two monitor ports on your video card? (dvi and vga)?  One will look like a standard connector with pins, while the other would look somewhat similar except have a space for a tab.  I've experienced with video cards that sometimes one is considered the default, and the other secondary - if you have the monitor plugged into the secondary port, it would show up as an extra monitor and the settings wouldn't be set yet so it wouldn't work.

My best advice to you would be to switch your monitor cable from your mobo to the video card until you can figure out what's wrong.  Good luck!

There are 2 ports in the back of my video card, and both of them are dvi? instead of the standard connector.
I have plugged both of them in with no results.......

I assume that PCIe is just like AGP - insert the card and away you go (this is my 1st foray into PCIe).......

Last edited by -101-InvaderZim (2006-06-25 01:39:32)

Molex power connector?? What is that and where does it go?

sounds like a flux capacitor problem to me.

ok ... ususally the "cable is not connected message" does not have to do anything beyond the card. At least on my cards the message would go away even if i just plugged in the monitor cable into a gfx card that was outside of the sysem and not plugged in. When the cable is plugged in somehow pins are shorted (or something like that) to give the monitor the messgae that everything is ok

So ... i think that this does not indicate any problem  with the pc itself but rather with the cable (cann you check with anotherone, is everything firmly connected) the monitor (try another one if possible) or the "shorting" of pins inside the connector of the gfx (try with an old gfx card you have lying aroung from some ancient pc)

-101-InvaderZim wrote:

Its not the monitor

good - then its the cable or the gfx card

Check your power supply.  Some mobo's won't boot up (fans spin, lights come on) if the power isn't perfect.  Had it happen to my girlfriends computer - drove me nuts for a few days before I put a known good power supply in it.

What is that tiny little thing on the top of the card for?  What's it called and what does it do?

OK guys, update on my lil problem.
After much looking, I found the speaker plug that makes beeps and stuff.

The motherboard is making a single long beep

Beeeep Beeeep Beeeeep

And its not RAM - I swapped my RAM with another stick and still got the same results

Last edited by -101-InvaderZim (2006-06-26 01:01:34)