new mobo install, getting POST beep for vid card, help

[wheeler08]

I swapped out mobo's, and hooked everything up, when I do, I get one long beep and 2 short ones. My mobo has the award bios. I looked it up and it says this is the error: 1 long, 2 short Indicates a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information

I have a Asus A8N5X mobo, and a evga 7900GT vid card. Everything looks hooked up right. I've tried taking it out and putting it back in, that didn't help.

Any ideas? Thanks

 

[Roguestar]

Try it again. Take out the motherboard and lay it on a flat surface such as a table. Install RAM, CPU and graphics card, then hook it up to the PSU. Check if it'll boot into the BIOS at least, at that point.

 

[wheeler08]

ok, i'll try that now. thanks

 

[wheeler08]

well I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or if there is a bigger problem. But trying that, I got power with no beeps, but my monitor stayed black, never got to a BIOS screen.

 

[wheeler08]

well, took a break from messing with comp. Found out reason it made no beeps, was cause I forgot to hookup the sound. So I have nothing plugged in but vid card, cpu, and ram, with psu. Still getting the beeps. Any more ideas? Vid card worked fine with old mobo, its not a new card.

 

[wheeler08]

Ha, i feel like a noob. I thought I had memory installed like the mobo manual said, but guess I had them in the opposite slots than they were supposed to be. So its fine, for now...Thanks for all the help!

 

[Sforsyth]

to bad you didn't have another video acrd you could try.

 

[imported_Nacelle]

Sounds like my problem. Text
Is your motherboard via? And the graphics nvidia, like mine?