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Hi everyone,
Quickly, I'd like to note that I've scoured the internet (including here) to find a forum/article/tidbit that addressed our particular problem (including the notable sticky here). But none of the information out there seems to be sufficiently similar to our problem.
For my research project at school, my group has access to a computer with the configuration:
Asus P6T motherboard
Intel i7 processor (I believe 2.7 clock speed, not sure how many cores)
GeForce GTX 280 graphics card (a dedicated card is necessary, as the motherboard has no integrated card)
3 GB DDR2 RAM
750-W PSU
A few days ago, we installed Magma's PEHIFX1 host card (an x1 PCI-e card) into one of the board's x16 slots. The system booted normally.
As you may know, the PEHIFX1 host card, however, is for use with Magma's PCI expansion chassis. A camera sends its output to a PCI card in the expansion chassis, which then sends its output to our PCI-e host card (in order to make the camera compatible with PCI-e). The camera/chassis/host system works; we've seen it work on another system (but we can't use that system, because we need a better system for our data analysis).
Then in accordance with Magma's instructions, we shut off the PC, connected the PCI-e host card to the expansion chassis, turned on the expansion chassis, and then turned on the computer. At that point, the PC's fans turned on, the PC's lights turned on, the mouse's light turned on, but the monitor failed to display any output. The monitor (analog) just displays "Monitor in power save mode. Activate using PC," but the monitor displays that message even if it's not plugged into the PC.
We turned off the entire system, disconnected the PCI-e host card from the expansion chassis, but the monitor again failed to display any output.
At that point, we removed the PCI-e host card from the motherboard, but again it failed to display output.
Since then, we've powered the computer down, disconnected it from the outlet, and pressed the power button for >1 minute (as we found recommended elsewhere). Again, no dice.
I'd like to emphasize: something about powering on the expansion chassis is what stopped the graphics card from sending its signal to the monitor; we changed nothing in the hardware from before we turned on the chassis (and the computer properly booted and displayed its image on the monitor) to after we turned on the chassis (and the computer failed to display its image).
It seems to me that the answer might be obvious to some of you. If the problem persists after we switch the RAM and after we reset the BIOS, what could be the problem?
Thank you so much for your time,
Rob
*bold is just to add emphasis to make the post easier to follow, since I've written quite a bit
Quickly, I'd like to note that I've scoured the internet (including here) to find a forum/article/tidbit that addressed our particular problem (including the notable sticky here). But none of the information out there seems to be sufficiently similar to our problem.
For my research project at school, my group has access to a computer with the configuration:
Asus P6T motherboard
Intel i7 processor (I believe 2.7 clock speed, not sure how many cores)
GeForce GTX 280 graphics card (a dedicated card is necessary, as the motherboard has no integrated card)
3 GB DDR2 RAM
750-W PSU
A few days ago, we installed Magma's PEHIFX1 host card (an x1 PCI-e card) into one of the board's x16 slots. The system booted normally.
As you may know, the PEHIFX1 host card, however, is for use with Magma's PCI expansion chassis. A camera sends its output to a PCI card in the expansion chassis, which then sends its output to our PCI-e host card (in order to make the camera compatible with PCI-e). The camera/chassis/host system works; we've seen it work on another system (but we can't use that system, because we need a better system for our data analysis).
Then in accordance with Magma's instructions, we shut off the PC, connected the PCI-e host card to the expansion chassis, turned on the expansion chassis, and then turned on the computer. At that point, the PC's fans turned on, the PC's lights turned on, the mouse's light turned on, but the monitor failed to display any output. The monitor (analog) just displays "Monitor in power save mode. Activate using PC," but the monitor displays that message even if it's not plugged into the PC.
We turned off the entire system, disconnected the PCI-e host card from the expansion chassis, but the monitor again failed to display any output.
At that point, we removed the PCI-e host card from the motherboard, but again it failed to display output.
Since then, we've powered the computer down, disconnected it from the outlet, and pressed the power button for >1 minute (as we found recommended elsewhere). Again, no dice.
I'd like to emphasize: something about powering on the expansion chassis is what stopped the graphics card from sending its signal to the monitor; we changed nothing in the hardware from before we turned on the chassis (and the computer properly booted and displayed its image on the monitor) to after we turned on the chassis (and the computer failed to display its image).
It seems to me that the answer might be obvious to some of you. If the problem persists after we switch the RAM and after we reset the BIOS, what could be the problem?
Thank you so much for your time,
Rob
*bold is just to add emphasis to make the post easier to follow, since I've written quite a bit
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