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Problem with PCI cards

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Zenem

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So this is kinda weird, I've never experienced something like this before.

I have 2 pci cards right, one network adapter (d-link) and my sound card (x-fi). This started after I took the two cards out to better clean out my case. On to the problem: when I have the xfi in ANY pci slot the computer starts up but nothing shows up on my monitor-theres no signal. And when I have the dlink adapter in a slot the computer boots up fine and every thing's good except it doesn't show up in device manager..

So are the pci slots dead? or the cards?

other specs-
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 4200+ X2
Motherboard: Asus A8N-E
Ram: 2 GB Crucial
Video Card: ATI Radeon x1950 Pro
 
Could be either, or both (messed up card messes up pci, or messed up pci messes up cards).

Sorry - can't be of more help without knowing if one more try with a different pci card works or not.
Please post back if you can with the result.

Oh, one other thing, look in BIOS and check the PCI options - are they set to auto?
 
Originally posted by: montag451
Could be either, or both (messed up card messes up pci, or messed up pci messes up cards).

Sorry - can't be of more help without knowing if one more try with a different pci card works or not.
Please post back if you can with the result.

Oh, one other thing, look in BIOS and check the PCI options - are they set to auto?
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Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, I do not have another PCI card to run a test. I did take a look at BIOS settings, and I found one that might be causing the problem.

PCIPnP
Plug and Play O/S [No]
Init Display first [PCI]

Could these be the settings that should be changed? I can change the first one to yes, and the second one to PCI-e. Since I have a PCI-e graphics card, it would be better to change that value right?
 
Thanks for your help man, I changed those settings and everything's running fine.

Any idea how or why my problem started?
 
Plug and Play O/S should always be "NO" with Windows, change it back you could experience problems later, it was the other setting causing your troubles.
 
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