Resolved Foxconn A78AX-S - Video Issues

Hi everyone, I am building a PC for a customer of mine and foolishly decided to go the less costly route which has as you may imagine actually cost me more.

I have built this system with a 550 Watt Power supply, the above mentioned M/d, I have 1gig of Patriot Memory - DDR2, the CPU is an AMD Phenom dual core, the board supports AM2+ CPU's so the 1066 memory I have should be fine.

The M/b does not come with on board video so I purchased an ATI PCIe x16 graphics card.

The HDD is Sata and has nothing on it yet.

When I power the machine up everything comes to life but there is no video feed.

I have swapped the GPU for an Nvidia GeForce thinking it may be a faulty card as I am getting the 1 long beep and then the 2 short ones..

Despite changing this I still have no video, the memory may be an issue but I am leaning towards a failing M/b..

Has anyone encounted this kind of problem?!

My next step as radiacal as it may sound is to buy a M/b with on board graphics just to prove to myself that I am not totally insane!

Thanks!

Bxl117

 

Welcome to the BBS if you haven't been welcomed yet. Well done putting your system details in your user profile.

Disconnect everything except RAM, graphics and keyboard (and even without the keyboard), disconnect drives.

Have you found out what the beeps refer to (is it graphics?)

Can you be certain the graphics card is seated all the way. I was changing one of mine the other day and it was not seated fully by only a fraction of a millimetre and it would not work. Does the slot have a clip and is it fully engaged?

Matt

 

One long two short is Video problem yes, Matt is quite right by suggesting re-checking the seating of the card.
I may also suggest to clean the contacts of the video card by running down the connectors (from top to bottom not long-wise) with a clean eraser and giving it a blow with Air Brush Air Duster.
I have had a similar incidence recently not with a video card but with a stick of ram that worked fine in one PC and not the other in the end a good blow along the ram slot with the Air Duster solved the problem for me.
Just as Matt pointed out one particle sitting in the slot would not allow the ram to be fully seated.
I would also test the Video card in another machine, and if it turns out to be a faulty Motherboard can't you get it replaced.
hawk22

 

Thanks guys - I'll try it and let you know the outcome

 

Worked perfectly!! I never thought of that.. I assumed brand new mother boards would be clean.. LOL Thanks again!!!

 

Thank you to my new friends for helping me to stop over thinking the problem... LOL

Hawk22 and Mattman..

Blow out the bays for the memory etc. - reseat the item and bingo, nice working PC!!

 

hi bxl117, thank you for reporting back that things are working well.We are glad we could be of assistance to you.
hawk22