A7V880 + 9700 Pro won't boot

[Assimilator1]

When I say it won't boot I mean no display,standby light on the monitor ,fans spinning.
The machine works fine with a GF4.
9700 Pro works fine in my other rig.

I noticed a note in the manual about only using 9500s & 9700's from PN xxx-xxxxx-30 onwards 'for optimium peformance & overclocking stability' ,(*rant* why the hell is that anyway?? those cards were out long before this mbrd so they should work!:| ),as it happens my 9700 ends with 01.

Anyway to fix this?

 

[Assimilator1]

ttt

 

[Assimilator1]

Well the response was overwhelming

But anyway ,thanks to Dazed and Confused who PMed me a possible solution
The 1010 beta bios got a 9800 working properly on his mbrd ,so I'll try that bios on my sons rig & see if its fixes it.(I think it currently has the latest non beta bios ,1009)

Will report back FYI.

 

[Assimilator1]

Tried the 1010 005 beta bios ,made no difference.Neither did lowering the AGP speed to x2 ,or increasing the AGP voltage upto 1.8v ,nor lowering the AGP aperature to 64MB.

I guess whatever Asus or VIA did to this chipset/mbrd really screwed compatibilty up with earlier 9700s! :frown:

Unless someone else has any bright ideas on this I quit ,I'm going to sell the 9700 Pro & he'll have to make do with a GF4 Ti4200 (which now needs a new fan) for now.

 

[postmortemIA]

try to press the reboot button on your case when it fails... I had 9700 pro who wouldn't play nice with many AGP mobos.

 

[Assimilator1]

Tried that ,didn't work.
Btw that mbrd has never yet booted with the 9700.