a7n8x wont recognize 9800 pro

[Sixpence]

Blank screen

[flakbait]

It could be a dud card, but those are pretty rare. Try reseating it in the AGP slot, and make sure the little gray clip is at least halfway up when the card is in. Check the gold contacts on the card to see how deep they're going too. Sometimes you can find a sticky spot in the slot by eyeballing the contacts. Last time I swapped vid cards I had the same problem. Turned out to be a tight spot on the clip-end of the AGP slot that wouldn't let the card fully drop in. If it's a real tight fit you can LIGHTLY tap it into place using somesort of tool. My multi-pliers worked great when trying to get my modem in.

Should all that not work...umm...you didn't cram the thing into a PCI slot by mistake, didja?



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[Sixpence]

I can't get any help cause the phone lines are out in canada. Gonna ship it back, just got an RMA#. $400.00 in limbo, this sucks, I never had this problem with an nvidia card.

[Skuzzy]

Did you plug in the aux power plug to the card?  What size power supply do you have?

[Revvin]

Yup definately make sure the card has it's AUX power supply connected, when I was messing about with mine once I took the card out and put it back in and forgot to reconnect the power supply cable to it and got the same problem as you.

[bloom25]

Unfortunately, it sounds like a dead card to me.

[Skuzzy]

It would act dead if he did not plug in the aux power plug bloom.  I have not run into anyone who had a DOA of one of these cards, but it is certainly possible.

[Revvin]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
It would act dead if he did not plug in the aux power plug bloom.

That was my first thoughts when I forgot to plug mine back in, sure was releived when it all fired back up once I noticed my mistake.

[Sixpence]

Yeah, the power is fine. I went through the works with a gentleman from asus.He thinks it might be a dead card too.

[Eagler]

exact reason I purchase my video cards locally

pay alittle more but you have the convenience to return it for whatever reason in about an hour instead of days/weeks

[Sixpence]

If the company accepts the return and gets me a new one quick i'll be content. I was in microcenter and they didn't have it there, they have alot of older cards. If I could find a store that stocked the motherboard, ps,heat sink, memory, video card, case, cpu I wanted, i'de be there. Shoot, the local microcenter didn't even have a barton 2500.

What I am concerned with is the ATI card, if I have a problem with the next one it's back to the tried and true.

[Revvin]

Sorry to hear it was a duff card, I'm sure your replacement wil lwork as I've not had any compatibility problems with my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe board and my Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb card, be sure to grab the 2.45 Nforce drivers and Cat 3.6 ATi drivers when you get the replacement. Hope you get it resolved soon

[beet1e]

I want to get this board myself. The Asus website is a useful source for getting the manual, BIOS updates etc., but I'm not sure where to get the latest drivers. My current board is an A7V133 and I always got the driver updates from the VIA Hardware site, not from Asus.

Can you supply a URL for the Nforce drivers for this mobo?

[Revvin]

Go to Nvidia's site and go to the downloads page the latest version is 2.45

[beet1e]

Thanks Revv - downloaded 'em just now - for both W2000, and your favourite OS- WMe.

When you built your system, did you reinstall Windows?  I ask because with some Asus boards you don't have to. Tomato needed a new board over a year ago, and bought the A7V333 that I recommended. All she had to do was power up - the system did a whole load of detecting, and everything worked fine - no reinstall of the OS.