boat load of problems

[Steve325]

ok, here's the big one

I beleive there is a conflict between my network card - abit airpace (PCI-E x1) and video card x1950 pro (PCI-E x16). Computer boots fine when I take the network card out, if it's in there, it can take up to 10 tries to get the thing to boot. Typical boot gives me 1 long and 2 short, which is video failure according to my motherboard - gigabyte 965p. I'd really like to get this fixed. It's the most frustrating thing when it can take 10 times to get the computer going

added onto this, this happens with or without the network card installed. I boot up and get the 1 beep saying everything is fine. It loads passed bios where all the cpu clock speed and stuff is shown. Right when it is about to load up my boot screen my screen turns red, green, white, blue, etc. It's just a solid color and switches every 3 seconds. Sometimes it will kick out of it, other times it won't.

i really need to get this stuff fixed and have my computer running reliable again. I'm afraid to turn it off so just leave it on for days

thanks

 

[wanderer27]

I would check out your BIOS settings and make sure you don't have anything incorrectly setup - I don't know your MB, so this could be a number of things.

The Network card sounds like an IRQ conflict. The easiest fix would be to uninstall it and put in a different PCI slot. On some MB's (mine) the PCIex and the first slot use the same IRQ , so you have to use a different slot or you'll have issues.

You don't say, but it's possible something else is causing issues as well. By this I mean another PCI device.

These are just a few starter things to check.

 

[Steve325]

that's what I was thinking too, the only problem is, I only have 1 pci-e 1x and 1 pci-e 16x

 

[wanderer27]

Ah, the Network card is a PCIex?

You may want to dig around in the BIOS in see if there's an option for setting the IRQ's for each slot then.

I'm not familiar with that type Network card, so I'm afraid that's all the help I can give at this time.