Biostar Tforce 6100-939 PCI-e problem?

[RomanMtz]

Hello, I was wondering if I could get some help here.

I installed a new system with this Biostar motherboard. It worked perfectly fine but when I installed the Geforce 6800GT card, I would get no signal to my monitor. I would get a signal from the integrated GPU, but not from my vid card (which is the one I want to use) no matter what I set in the bios (apparently you can't disable the onboard GPU, the PCI-e one is supposed to override it). I tried the card on another system and it worled fine. I made sure to connect the PCI-e power to the card and that the card is well connected. I cleared CMOS and everything. Is my 16x PCI-e slot on the 6100-939 board bad? What else can I do to troubleshoot?

So has anyone elsa had this problem? Please help! Thanks!

 

[Budman]

http://www.biostar.com.tw/support/online/index.php3

 

[Zap]

You should try to borrow another PCI-E card to test. I have a Geforce 6200 card for testing purposes and it wouldn't work in one motherboard I had (ECS NFORCE4-A754) but the card was fine in other boards and the board was fine with other cards. Go figure.

 

[furballi]

The EVGA GF 6200 card works with the ECS NF4 754. Perhaps this MB not compatible with another brand.

I also have another cheap passively-cooled Nvidia GeForce 6200 LE that's 100% compatible with the ECS NF4 754 (driver 84.21 from the Nvidia website).

 

[RomanMtz]

Yeah, I tried my 7800GT and it didn't work either... the Biostar guy said I might have a bad PCI-e slot...

 

[Zap]

If two otherwise functional cards don't give a picture in the Biostar board, then it does sound like a bad slot.

furballi, the card I have is an MSI 6200TC. It works fine in other boards but just won't give a picture in the ECS board. Other cards worked fine in the ECS board and the card that stayed in the board when I sold it in a system was a Sapphire Radeon X800GTO.

 

[furballi]

Hmmm...so it's not a driver-realated issue. I've always had good luck with EVGA stuffs.