No PCI Slots working on A8N-SLI Premium

[wanderer27]

Just got this MB Friday 9/2/05. It came with BIOS 1006 preloaded.

This one's really got me stumped. I've tried moving this card to every slot, and the System just doesn't see it.

I Flashed to 1007.002, and it still did't see it. I Flashed to 1008.002 and the System found a couple more HW devices - HT Bridge and something else, not sure what it was, but it still won't find my PCI card.

I know this card works, I just took it out of my other System, so it can't be a dead card.

The Memory is fine, I was using it in my other System as well. It passed Memtest and Prime95, and my System is rock solid otherwise - CPU temps 35-37 C is the highest I've seen so far.

I really need some ideas on this. I hate to think it's a bad MB - for all the PCI slots to be dead seems pretty unlikely, at least to me

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
BIOS 1008.002
NForce4 6.66 Drivers
XP64 3700+ San Diego
MSI 7800 GTX (78.03 Drivers)
Enermax Noisetaker EG495P-VE (480W)
Corsair TWINX1024-3200XL
Windows XP Prof SP2

Nothing is overclocked, my 12V is at 12.03, highest temp on my Video Card has been 54C.

 

[aiya24]

thats odd the only mobo maker i know that had bad pci slots were Abit's. never heard anything bad about asus.

i know you took out the card from a systems were it was working but you can try putting it back into the old system just to double check it didnt die.

if that doesnt work then try wiggling the pci card in the slot. i had that problem too with my SBLive! on my old MSI K7 setup so i wiggled it and rebooted and it detected it. also do you have any other pci devices to test with. hope this helps.

 

[wanderer27]

Well, I tried installing a PCI NIC card, and that wasn't seen either.

I also just did the CMOS reset (Battery removal etc) thing, and still no change

 

[pol II]

RMA. I had this happen to an A8N-SLI Deluxe; in addition to the lack of operable PCI slots, the board had a flaky SATA controller.

 

[aiya24]

RMA

by the way nice set up you have wanderer :thumbsup:

 

[wanderer27]

Yeah, I've kinda come to that conclusion (RMA).

I just got done re-installing XP minus SP2, tried to change a few IRQ settings, and dropped back to NForce 6.65 Drivers - no luck

BTW - thanks on the System comment

 

[wanderer27]

Just put in my replacement (RMA'd) MB A8N-SLI Premium.

Looks like there were more problems than just dead PCI slots on that other MB. Windoze found alot of other Devices when I Booted up on it - including my SBLive!

I'm thinking quite a bit was dead on the bottom side of that board. Wonder what the heck it was

Well, I figured I'd post this in case anyone else ran into the same situation. I've seen it mentioned on some other Sites as well and they're still trying to figure it out . . .

I'm off to test & tweak on this now