Mobo fried, any suggestions on new mobo?

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

My Biostar T-Force P965 won't read my 8800 GT or my 260 GTX giving me a No Signal error on my monitor and basically rendering these great cards useless. Anyone have a good mother board suggestion for around $100? My sig has all the parts that I currently have, an e4300 C2D CPU, 260 GTX, 2x2GB G.Skill RAM, 2x250GB Maxtor HDDs, etc. Please post links of good deals if you got 'em!

 

[EvilBob]

no brainer - Gigabyte EP45-UD3R if you don't want xfire; or Gigabyte EP45-UD3P if you do.

 

[yh125d]

I'd go for the UD3P above. Use your GTX260 as your main card, and your 8800GT in the other slot doing physx!

 

[Elusiv1]

+1 for the UD3P or UD3R!!!

 

[Painman]

Having recently run into a situation where a DFI NF4 Ultra-D stopped recognizing the presence of an X1900XT, just because I plugged a different set of RAM sticks into the board,

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I would recommend not writing your current board off quite yet.

If it has a second full length PCI-E slot, try powering up with a vid card in that slot.

Try resetting the CMOS.

Try... I dunno, use your imagination.

I have no experience with Biostar, but if DFI has taught me anything, it's taught me not to expect any rhyme or reason with low level hardware errors.

 

[o1die]

If you aren't upgrading your cpu, newegg has a foxconn 965 board for $50 plus shipping. Might save you a fresh windows install.

 

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

This is what I just purchased, it's an Open Box ASUS P5Q Pro: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16813131299R I'm going to try this open box just once and if it doesn't work, then I'll never purchase another open box product again.