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I need help on a problem im having with my pc. I go to turn it on and I don't see any post from the mobo on screen. I'm thinking my PCIE slot may have been burned out, I tried the HD, ram, GPU, PSU on a 2nd pc and they all worked fine, The mobo does work with its onboard graphics but I can't game or watch any HD videos. Any idea whats wrong with this?

PS, I only have 1 PCIE slot, I went into the BIOS and set everything up, I also reset my CMOS and nothing helped.

You could probably just use it till it goes for good, whenever you can delay buying new parts, the more you will save. However, if the board just ends up frustrating you and eating up tons of time to fix it, I'd just buy a new one.
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You need to go in the bios and change from onboard video to PEG.

Reply to evongugg

seems like you did everything you could to accurately diagnose the problem. Did you notice anything strange when this first started happening, like fizzing, hissing, funny smell, or the magic blue smoke? Also, any scorch marks on or near the graphics slot would be more evidence. May as well start looking for a new motherboard

Reply to wathman

I thought of that possibility as well, but in the past when I've worked on systems with both onboard and a discrete card installed, the BIOS usually auto detects, and resetting the CMOS should keep it from defaulting to on-board GFX.

Reply to wathman

wathman wrote :

seems like you did everything you could to accurately diagnose the problem. Did you notice anything strange when this first started happening, like fizzing, hissing, funny smell, or the magic blue smoke? Also, any scorch marks on or near the graphics slot would be more evidence. May as well start looking for a new motherboard



lol No blue smoke but it does make a odd skipping-hmmming sound, I think its the CD tray tying to read the disk but it stops after about 5 secs, also you know how the fan go crazy when you 1s turn on the pc? wel mine does that for like 5 secs longer then avg, maybe more, not a big deal but it never done that before.

I really don't have money to buy any upgrades right now for it, so I really want a way to fix it myself

Do you think installing a new OS would help?

Reply to DanielC_22

my screen just started flickering black, and it seems everything is slower, even just looking around online.

Reply to DanielC_22

flickering black, can't tell you exactly what that is.. but the general slowness for browsing may just be simply because you are using a lower power integrated GPU now. It's a long shot, but doesn't cost anything but time so might be worth a try. Disconnect everything not vital to your bootup, CD drives, card readers, external hard drives, etc. See if your able to get your Gfx card to boot when you decrease the load on the PSU some. I'm not all that confident it's a heat/PSU output problem, but may as well rule it out completely.

Reply to wathman

when I talk over mic *vent, Teamspeak, ect* my ping is alot higher then normal. will not having a video card making your ping high?

Reply to DanielC_22

I doubt the GPU has anything to do with your ping times, but there's a whole networking section of the forums that would be a much better place to ask that question.

Reply to shortstuff_mt

wathman wrote :

flickering black, can't tell you exactly what that is.. but the general slowness for browsing may just be simply because you are using a lower power integrated GPU now. It's a long shot, but doesn't cost anything but time so might be worth a try. Disconnect everything not vital to your bootup, CD drives, card readers, external hard drives, etc. See if your able to get your Gfx card to boot when you decrease the load on the PSU some. I'm not all that confident it's a heat/PSU output problem, but may as well rule it out completely.



I will try that and let you know

Reply to DanielC_22

that did not work, any other ideas guys?

do you think reinstalling my OS would help?

Reply to DanielC_22

I don't think it will help much, but you can try it if you want. Since any "fix" at this point will likely cost you money, and require a reload from backups, may as well do the back up now and try a reinstall. At worst, it won't break anything further, and when you have the money to repair or get a new one you'll already have all the important stuff in one place.

Reply to wathman

All of a sudden this morning, My PCIE slot started working, so I can use my video card. My question is would you trust it or should I still think about replacing my motherboard?

Reply to DanielC_22
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You could probably just use it till it goes for good, whenever you can delay buying new parts, the more you will save. However, if the board just ends up frustrating you and eating up tons of time to fix it, I'd just buy a new one.

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