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

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  • Linux
  • Video
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  • Ubuntu
  • Asus
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January 6, 2014 4:46:30 PM

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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a b U Graphics card
January 6, 2014 5:48:28 PM

Try updating the motherboard bios.
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January 6, 2014 6:26:41 PM

Dom_79 said:
Try updating the motherboard bios.


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

  1. # dmidecode 2.12
  2. SMBIOS 2.4 present.
  3.  
  4. Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
  5. BIOS Information
  6. Vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
  7. Version: ASUS M2A-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 5001
  8. Release Date: 02/04/2010
  9. Address: 0xE0000
  10. Runtime Size: 128 kB
  11. ROM Size: 1024 kB
  12. Characteristics:
  13. ISA is supported
  14. PCI is supported
  15. PNP is supported
  16. APM is supported
  17. BIOS is upgradeable
  18. BIOS shadowing is allowed
  19. Boot from CD is supported
  20. Selectable boot is supported
  21. BIOS ROM is socketed
  22. EDD is supported
  23. 5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
  24. 5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
  25. 3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
  26. 3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
  27. Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
  28. 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
  29. Serial services are supported (int 14h)
  30. Printer services are supported (int 17h)
  31. CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
  32. ACPI is supported
  33. USB legacy is supported
  34. AGP is supported
  35. LS-120 boot is supported
  36. ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
  37. BIOS boot specification is supported
  38. Targeted content distribution is supported
  39.  
  40. Handle 0x002D, DMI type 13, 22 bytes
  41. BIOS Language Information
  42. Language Description Format: Long
  43. Installable Languages: 3
  44. n|US|iso8859-1
  45. r|CA|iso8859-1
  46. a|JP|unicode
  47. Currently Installed Language: n|US|iso8859-1


And the LSPCI output

  1. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 Host Bridge
  2. 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
  3. 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)
  4. 00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
  5. 00:12.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
  6. 00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI0)
  7. 00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI1)
  8. 00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI2)
  9. 00:13.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI3)
  10. 00:13.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB (OHCI4)
  11. 00:13.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
  12. 00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
  13. 00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 IDE
  14. 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
  15. 00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
  16. 00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
  17. 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
  18. 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
  19. 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
  20. 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
  21. 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 [Radeon X1200]
  22. 02:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa)
  23. 03:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value
  24. 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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a b U Graphics card
January 6, 2014 6:28:41 PM

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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January 6, 2014 6:39:07 PM

maxwellmelon said:
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?)


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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a b U Graphics card
January 7, 2014 2:15:16 PM

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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January 7, 2014 5:03:39 PM

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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