Nvidia 8500GT Won't display video on Asus M2A-VM

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billpull

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I am trying to build an htpc out of old parts and everything seems fine but I want to use a
dedicated card to not use up all my onboard RAM while outputting video. My motherboard
is an Asus M2A-VM and my graphics card is a XFX nVidia 8500GT 1GB. The computer boots
normally and graphics come out of the onboard video but when I put the video card in and
set the BIOS priority to PCIEx no video comes out, onboard still works. The card is spinning
and I plugged it into another computer and it worked fine. Not sure what else to do to troubleshoot.
 
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I solved this issue eventually just by installing windows 7 and the nvidia drivers then running the live cd while
the graphics were coming from the card and installed Xubuntu on top of the windows installation.
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billpull

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Yea updated the BIOS to the latest version from Asus' website.
Here is my BIOS info from the OS.

XML: 
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
	Version: ASUS M2A-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 5001
	Release Date: 02/04/2010
	Address: 0xE0000
	Runtime Size: 128 kB
	ROM Size: 1024 kB
	Characteristics:
		ISA is supported
		PCI is supported
		PNP is supported
		APM is supported
		BIOS is upgradeable
		BIOS shadowing is allowed
		Boot from CD is supported
		Selectable boot is supported
		BIOS ROM is socketed
		EDD is supported
		5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
		8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
		Serial services are supported (int 14h)
		Printer services are supported (int 17h)
		CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
		ACPI is supported
		USB legacy is supported
		AGP is supported
		LS-120 boot is supported
		ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
		BIOS boot specification is supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported

Handle 0x002D, DMI type 13, 22 bytes
BIOS Language Information
	Language Description Format: Long
	Installable Languages: 3
		n|US|iso8859-1
		r|CA|iso8859-1
		a|JP|unicode
	Currently Installed Language: n|US|iso8859-1

And the LSPCI output

Code: 
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
00:12.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 [Radeon X1200]
02:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa)
03:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01)

I am running Xubuntu 13.10 as an OS
 
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Even though its running off of onboard graphics does it show the NVidia in the windows hardware manager, (even if its not enabled it shows that the motherboard is talking with the card) also have u tried resetting the cmos to see if that fixs it where it will save the change(sadly I have to ask u are saving the changes before exiting bios right?)
 
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billpull

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How do I reset the CMOS. I have been saving the changes but there is no option to disable it in BIOS just set the default to PCIex which was the default to begin with.
Cannot see the card in the operating system Nvidia driver did not detect it see LSPCI output above
 
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maxwellmelon

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from ur mb manual

1 unplug computer
2. remove onboard battery
3. move jumper cap from pins 1-2 to 2-3 (jumper named clrtc at bottom right of motherboard) keep on the pins for 5-10sec then move back
4. reinstall battery
5. plug in
6. enter bios and reset any settings(otherwise it will use all the default settings)

 
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billpull

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I solved this issue eventually just by installing windows 7 and the nvidia drivers then running the live cd while
the graphics were coming from the card and installed Xubuntu on top of the windows installation.
 
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