HELP with my Gigabyte GA-7VAXP Systemboard please

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Does anybody have any experience with the Gigabyte GA-7VAXP Systemboard, I
am having prolems getting it to start. I Think I have the basics, to start
it must have a CPU, Ram and Video card. The RAM is new, and the CPU is new.
Howerver my video card doesn't seem to want to work. It is a nvidia Geforce
MX 400, it has 2 notches on it, I assume it means 2X or 4X, is it possible
it will not run on my board ? the manual sais 4X or 8X and will only run
1.5Volt cards. Any input would be appreciated. Rich

 

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Rich Parent wrote:
> Does anybody have any experience with the Gigabyte GA-7VAXP Systemboard, I
> am having prolems getting it to start. I Think I have the basics, to start
> it must have a CPU, Ram and Video card. The RAM is new, and the CPU is new.
> Howerver my video card doesn't seem to want to work. It is a nvidia Geforce
> MX 400, it has 2 notches on it, I assume it means 2X or 4X, is it possible
> it will not run on my board ? the manual sais 4X or 8X and will only run
> 1.5Volt cards. Any input would be appreciated. Rich
>
>
>

Does it also have a secondary power cable going to the motherboard with
12v cable?.
Took me a while to work that out with my new GA7N400 mobo which
everything turned on but just black screen and one beep.

 

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"TX" <noreply@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> Rich Parent wrote:
>> Does anybody have any experience with the Gigabyte GA-7VAXP Systemboard,
>> I
>> am having prolems getting it to start. I Think I have the basics, to
>> start
>> it must have a CPU, Ram and Video card. The RAM is new, and the CPU is
>> new.
>> Howerver my video card doesn't seem to want to work. It is a nvidia
>> Geforce
>> MX 400, it has 2 notches on it, I assume it means 2X or 4X, is it
>> possible
>> it will not run on my board ? the manual sais 4X or 8X and will only run
>> 1.5Volt cards. Any input would be appreciated. Rich
>>
>>
>>
>
> Does it also have a secondary power cable going to the motherboard with
> 12v cable?.
> Took me a while to work that out with my new GA7N400 mobo which everything
> turned on but just black screen and one beep.

Simply put, it's not powering up. I think the problem is that my board
doesn't support my chip (new AMD Duron 1800) without the bios upgrade.
Since, the board is not powering up, I have no way of updating the bios, so
I need a smaller AMD chip, although unless I can find a easier solution, I
have to take the computer on the bus out to Colwood, the guy who owns DTI
Computers will update it for free. I'm not getting any error beeps without
the vid card, nonetheless somebody in Oak Bay is going to sell me a PCI card
for $5, I will use it just for testing, just to confirm my GeForce MX 400
actually works with my board.

Anyways, any input is appreciated. ciao

 

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Make sure the cpu speed DIP switches are set correctly for the processor

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Regards
Martin

"Rich Parent" <rich2112@telus.net> wrote in message
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>
> "TX" <noreply@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
> news:413ab7df$0$19705$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> > Rich Parent wrote:
> >> Does anybody have any experience with the Gigabyte GA-7VAXP
Systemboard,
> >> I
> >> am having prolems getting it to start. I Think I have the basics, to
> >> start
> >> it must have a CPU, Ram and Video card. The RAM is new, and the CPU is
> >> new.
> >> Howerver my video card doesn't seem to want to work. It is a nvidia
> >> Geforce
> >> MX 400, it has 2 notches on it, I assume it means 2X or 4X, is it
> >> possible
> >> it will not run on my board ? the manual sais 4X or 8X and will only
run
> >> 1.5Volt cards. Any input would be appreciated. Rich
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Does it also have a secondary power cable going to the motherboard with
> > 12v cable?.
> > Took me a while to work that out with my new GA7N400 mobo which
everything
> > turned on but just black screen and one beep.
>
> Simply put, it's not powering up. I think the problem is that my board
> doesn't support my chip (new AMD Duron 1800) without the bios upgrade.
> Since, the board is not powering up, I have no way of updating the bios,
so
> I need a smaller AMD chip, although unless I can find a easier solution, I
> have to take the computer on the bus out to Colwood, the guy who owns DTI
> Computers will update it for free. I'm not getting any error beeps without
> the vid card, nonetheless somebody in Oak Bay is going to sell me a PCI
card
> for $5, I will use it just for testing, just to confirm my GeForce MX 400
> actually works with my board.
>
> Anyways, any input is appreciated. ciao
>
>