New built PC, fault finding

[MarcusMorris]

Doesn't the P5ND2 SLI EAYZ have onboard graphics capability? When you removed the graphics card, you did stick the monitor cable into the m/b? Sorry, but it's the kind of thing one forgets when frustrated! Is it possible that the onboard graphics driver is over-riding the graphics card driver, hence no signal from the card? Assuming XP, have a look in "Start/Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager/Display Adapters" and see what it THINKS it's got. Pull the card out again, check the monitor cable is plugged in the m/b and give it another go. If this works, great - you can uninstall the onboard graphics driver, re-install the graphics card driver and swap the cable back again... not necessarily in that order...

 

[blu3tang]

Some motherboards come supplied with the bios reset enabled (jumper on the board) it isnt that is it?

 

[meldrew's_mate]

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions, it's working, son is happy, end of story......

.....OK 'puter geeks, I know you're itching to find out what it was, so here goes. For those who are not interested skip two paragraphs...

After much prodding and poking we (Son & I) decided that the motherboard may be faulty and proceded to prepare it for return to the supplier. Asus' website was no use at all except for the insistance that the CPU connector (skt 775) protector was replaced before shipment. So, the graphics card, memory, and fan were removed, then the CPU was carefully packed away. At the point of fitting the protector it just didn't seem to fit snugly. and after several gentle tries at getting it to fit I re-examined the socket area. A small piece of protector plastic was seen to be occupying a corner of the CPU socket, how and when it got there is unknown, the CPU had not been removed before for fear of damaging it, on first fitting it had slotted in fine, and there was no way it could have been fitted in the wrong orientation. The plastic could have broken off on first removal, or during my attempts to repackage the mobo, or indeed it could not be significant at all.

Suffice to say we agreed to give it one last shot, during which we remounted the CPU with fan, reinstalled the memory, and slotted in the graphics card. Once the PSU, monitor, keyboard, and mouse connections were made, fingers were crossed and the PSU switched on. Immediately the monitor burst into lovely life - this was further than ever before, and we set up the BIOS and loaded the OS.

Now it works a treat and Son doesn't give me that "you're useless" look anymore.

Fathertobe, have you lost the tobe yet?

Thanks geeks

 

[JohnD]

Fathertobe, have you lost the tobe yet?

Surely you mean, has Father Tobe left the priesthood and become Mr. Tobe?




Well done on the PC fix.