MSI K7N420 PRO & V8200 DELUXE PROBLEM

[iddo]

Hello,

I recently bought a new PC with the MSI K7N420 pro M/B and ASUS V8200 G.Card.
After I installed all the components I connected the V8200 to the M/B and pushed the Power button.
Nothing works. It doesn't even do the POST. The indicator LED's on the M/B say there is a problem with the VGA.
I tried the V8200 on another PC and it worked just fine. I also tried to connect an older ELSA GeForce2 card to the MSI M/B and it also worked fine. The built in MX G.Card worked fine as well.
The v. card doesn't work also on my friend's asus A7N266-E (does it have anything against Nforce?!)

Does anyone have an idea what's the problem?

I update the G.card (I think) and M/B BIOS's (I am sure) to the latest bios revisions.

Thanks,

Iddo
:Q

 

[vampiro]

The nForce chipset does not support graphics cards that require 3.3V. Instead it will only support the newer 1.5V versions. You should check your card, I would say that this is the problem. If so it will not work on the K7N420. Sorry, but you will probably have to return it and get one that only pulls 1.5V.

 

[iddo]

I am not 110% sure (the manual doesn't say anything about it) but I belive that my gf3 WORKS ONLY WITH 1.5v...
SO THIS IS NOT THAT PROBLEM!

I need different answers...

 

[iddo]

well guys...

 

[syadnom]

hey man, i have both the MSI k7n420 pro and a v8200 delux, the post about 1.5 vs 3.3v AGP is correct. the v8200 uses the 3.3v agp and theirfor wont work with the nforce 1.5v AGP, i found the same thing out about my voodoo5 5500, 3.3v(btw why does a v5 5500 need 3.3v AGP, its got the damned 12v 4pin molex coming in!!)

 

[iddo]

well this is what I have suspected all along but haven't been able to confirm with any real source.
is there anything I can do?
maybe somhow readuce the power consamption of the card?
if not I have a very big problem...

 

[jfunk]

Get a different card. Thats all you can do.

I didn't realize that any GF3 cards were 3.3V myself.


j

 

[iddo]

I am going to do something much more radical - you may see the results in a few days...

 

[jfunk]

Sounds like some last words there....I can't wait....let us know.





j

 

[Benedikt]

As far as I know, some old cards (TNT2, Savage, G200...) used 3.3V - AGP, but NO Geforce3, they all use 1.5V, even my ASUS V7700 (Geforce2GTS) uses 1.5V only...
So IMHO it's definitely wrong to say your card uses 3.3V signals...
But maybe I'm wrong, you can always learn new things

Cu and hopes this helps...

B. W.

 

[iddo]

a few things:
I have talked to the importer of asus products in Israel. they have created a rig using the v8200 deluxe + asus a7n266-e and tested it. according to what they told me the system works fine. this is very strange bacuse on my friends (a7n266-e) it didn't and niether on my k7n420 pro.

i'll try to check my system again today as well as my friend - the card seems to work fine on a non-nforce based mobo's.

according to the importer the card doesn't work with more then 1.5v - this information is not accesibale on asus web site - and they have not answered any of may many e-mails...

the only thing I can think of is some v. card bios problem...

does anybody have other ideas?

 

[ImmortallyInsane]

I just recently bought a 1.6a and a bd7raid. The bd7 requires a 1.5v card only, 3.3 will not work at all. My asus 8200 deluxe works perfect. So the 8200 has to be 1.5 volts (or something is really wrong with mine).