Mad Cow Posted January 1, 2013 Member ID: 1073 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 10 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 280 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 10 Achievement Points: 1611 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 2, 2019 Birthday: 09/28/1975 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Ok I've neglected my gaming duties for too long now. Started a new job beginning of 2012 and began having issues with ye 'ol gaming machine and now have the motivation to get 'er back online. One day I started my computer and my video card (Nvidia 9800GT) would not work. I took it out, restarted with the onboard video on my Asus P5-KVM mobo. It booted up fine, so I shut it down and reinserted my graphics card. It worked up to the Windows 7 boot screen, then went black again. I took it out and stole my kid's 8600GT, powered up and still no response from the PCI-e slot. I swapped power supplies and still nothing. About a week after that, my sound quit. So my question here is, could it be an issue with the BIOS, and I should perhaps reflash for good measures? Or is my motherboard history and I'm beating a dead horse trying to fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3st3r Posted January 2, 2013 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 153 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5095 Content Per Day: 1.05 Reputation: 5012 Achievement Points: 44702 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 22 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 14 hours ago Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Share Posted January 2, 2013 (edited) Sounds like the board is going out.My old rig went out like that.Lost the AGP slot then the sound then the PCI slots. When the AGP slot went out I used the onboard video and used it as a media center PC,then the sound went out so I picked up a cheap sound card and it ran like that for a couple years.Finally the PCI slots gave up and I pulled it all apart and,well it's in a box in the attic now. Socket 775 boards are pretty cheap on Ebay now that they put out the newer stuff. This one supports the Core 2 Quad $48.95 shipped http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Intel-DQ35MP-Executive-Series-LGA775-Socket-Motherboard-/120944620351?pt=Motherboards&hash=item1c28dc733f Edited January 2, 2013 by Pvt.Death Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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