HELP w/ Asus P5A-B rev 1.03 - can't get video to work

[joinT]

I've septuple checked the jumper settings....
Trying to use a K6-2 400 that came with the board. Got a 64mb pc100 stick in there.

FSB: 100 AGP: 66 PCI: 33
CPU 4.0

I've tried voltages from 2.1v to 2.5v

No video card (with a single exception, see below) has powered up the monitor at all. Tried

- 64mb DDR radeon vivo
- 8mb SIS 6236 agp
- 8mb ATI rageXL agp
- Pine 32mb TNT2 pci
- Trident 1mb pci
- many isa vid cards

now, I've read this board is quirky when it comes to video cards. Trident chipsets, TNT's & TNT2's & most AGP cards seem to be very finicky... so now I borrowed a 4mb ATI pci video card (the 4mb version of what the guy who sold me the board was using) & it still doesn't power up the monitor UNTIL I turn off the power from the psu. Then the monitor powers up for 5 secs & then powers down again.

Does anybody have any tips, ideas for me ??
Anybody seen this, where the video card only seems to power the monitor when the mobo is shutting down ??

TIA

 

[Mavrick007]

Are you sure your psu is working correctly? I had an Asus P5a and it had problems with the AGP socket, but it was cause it didn't get enough power to the slot, the video still worked. I just had to turn off the sidebanding so I couldn't use AGP 2x. Try different pci slots too if you test with a pci card. Sometimes the board can be picky which slot to use. Good luck.

 

[joinT]

tried both a regular ATX psu & an AT psu (normally & also w/ that extra 2pin connector coming from psu, plugged into the pwr switch header)

did u ever up the voltage to AGP slot to get it to work ??

I've tried 3 agp video cards @ every voltage.
Tried 3 pci video cards (1mb trident, 2-4mb ati rage IIc, 32mb pine tnt2) - in every pci slot each.
& many ISA video cards, none will power up the monitor, except for the pci rage, after I turn off the psu

I even used a 300w psu, I'm sure that's not the problem.

 

[garyboz]

try a different monitor

 

[joinT]

how could it be the monitor ??
i use that monitor with 4 other systems no problem & as 2nd monitor for my main systems sometimes.

do u think it could be because that monitor is attached through a KVM ??

 

[garyboz]

You didn't say the monitor worked with other systems. Try reseating the processor. Also make sure the motherboard isn't shorting with the case. Make sure the little pins sticking off the back aren't in contact with any metal from the case.

Does the computer power up and start to load windows (can you hear the hard drive spinning) and you get no video or does nothing happen at all. If it's number 1 than bypass the KVM. If it's number 2 than it's unlikely the KVM is the problem.

 

[joinT]

<< You didn't say the monitor worked with other systems. Try reseating the processor. Also make sure the motherboard isn't shorting with the case. Make sure the little pins sticking off the back aren't in contact with any metal from the case.

Does the computer power up and start to load windows (can you hear the hard drive spinning) and you get no video or does nothing happen at all. If it's number 1 than bypass the KVM. If it's number 2 than it's unlikely the KVM is the problem. >>



lol, ok yes the monitor is fine
2nd. I tried it inside the case first, now I just want it to boot - therefore it's on my wooden desk with just ram, vid & psu attached. (oh, & now the floppy drive, in case I ever got it to boot & I had a chance to try flashing the bios.
3rd. Got this mobo/cpu together, everything else I had prior. I haven't even loaded windows onto the hdd, since I couldn't see anything.

Although - when I had everything plugged in, I didn't hear the hdd or cdrom power up. But if I removed the ide cables, they did....
just thinking about it, that's probably a bad sign isn't it

 

[Mavrick007]

<< did u ever up the voltage to AGP slot to get it to work ?? >>

No, I never tried raising the voltage to the AGP, I didn't think it was a good idea since it was already at 3.3Volts.



<< lol, ok yes the monitor is fine
2nd. I tried it inside the case first, now I just want it to boot - therefore it's on my wooden desk with just ram, vid & psu attached. (oh, & now the floppy drive, in case I ever got it to boot & I had a chance to try flashing the bios.
3rd. Got this mobo/cpu together, everything else I had prior. I haven't even loaded windows onto the hdd, since I couldn't see anything.

Although - when I had everything plugged in, I didn't hear the hdd or cdrom power up. But if I removed the ide cables, they did....
just thinking about it, that's probably a bad sign isn't it >>



Hmm, it looks like you might have a problem with your motherboard. Are you sure that the cpu is good?

 

[joinT]

<< No, I never tried raising the voltage to the AGP, I didn't think it was a good idea since it was already at 3.3Volts. >>



hmm, my board starts at 3.5v

The CPU came with the mobo, I'm not sure if my other board supports a K6-2, but hopefully I will get a chance to test it in a friends mobo tomorrow.

 

[garyboz]

Take off the heatsink, remove the processor. Put the processor back in, put the heatsink on. Power on. Do the same for the ram (although if it's something with the ram it will usually beep at you.) If that doesn't work either the cpu or motherboard is fried. Also you doublechecked that your power supply is set for 115v right?

 

[joinT]

yes, both psus are set at 115.

i tried re-seating the proc. didn't do anything

 

[MrBumpy]

The board can be finicky with certain AGP 2.0 cards, but it seems your problems are related to something else. There is obviously a hardware failure somewhere along the way. It's probably either your motherboard, RAM or CPU that's faulty, or incorrectly installed.

 

[THEWIORACLE]

My ATI All-in-wonder PCI always worked with my P5A. Did you download newest ASUS Beta BIOS and ALI AGP driver. I spent 2 weeks on getting a AGP card to work. Finally I gave up. I just purchased a ATI RADEON 7000 PCI.... and am having similiar problems you are having. Here is my post that I'm about to post.

Having trouble keeping new Radeon 7000 PCI 64MB video card working in Windows 2000 prof. It either locks up in a few minutes or causes monitor to go to sleep during bootup. ASUS P5A Super7 ATX motherboard. Newest BIOs 1010 Beta 1. It only works if I have "Hardware Acceleration" set to none in Windows. As soon as I turn acceleration on by moving the slider button...my monitor will go into sleep mode. Monitor is Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 21FS. My original BIOS that I started with was a 1009 Beta BIOS - I have been running with it for 2 years with a older ATI ALL-IN-WONDER PRO PCI Card. I used the original driver that came with the ATI CD and downloaded ATI's newest RADEON 7000 driver. This is a PCI video card and not an AGP card. Running a AMD K6-3 400 with ALI Aladdin V chipset and newer 300watt ATX Power Supply - AMD approved.

 

[THEWIORACLE]

I saw some post in another website about setting the BIOS PCI Latency Timer to 10...my manual says it should be 32. It was defaulting to 0. Jeff S.