System will not recognize PCI-E card

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HakBilal

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I have fixed all my other problems (to those following the story.. all 2 of you), However my motherboard still will not detect my PCI-E card. I check my BIOS to try to enable the PCI-E slot, but it wont let me select it because it doesn't see anything in there. The Fan on the card is running, but still nothing. I have the ATI Xpress 200 drivers runing on the card that is in use (on board Xpress 200 I believe) and I want to try the X1600 drivers, however it will not recognize it.

Any help?
 
I have a similar problem like you, currently trying to set up the followings:

1st failed setup:
HP A1600N (AMD X2 3800 AM2, 2x 512 DDR2 533 Hynix RAM)
ATI X1900 XTX (onbaord video is power by GeForce 6150 LE chipset)
250 GB SATA hard disk
Ultra X-Connect 500W PSU
HP F2105 21" wide monitor
-- similar situation.... first disabled onboard video driver in device manager then enable PCI-E slot in BIO... card's fan is running but nothing detected once in Windows...

2nd failed setup:
Pentium D 930
Asus P5W DH
ATI X1900 XTX
2x 512 DDR2 533 RAM pulled from my HP A1600N system
80 GB Hitachi PATA hard disk (no os yet)
Thermaltake Toughpower 700W PSU (also tried Raidmax Volcano 630W PSU)
HP F2105 21" wide monitor (also tried Dell 19" connected through dvi-vga adapter)
-- system can't even display bio... just blank... but system power is on and xtx's fan is running (this happens w/ Raidmax psu), but then when i try to switch PSU into thermaltake, the system would load up blank for a short period of time and turn off itself
 
There aren't any "Xpress 200" drivers, as such. It works automatically, for some reason, there aren't any drivers required like the NF-x series does

Could you pleasel repost your specs for the sake of the people who haven't seen your other threads?
 
I have an emachines T3516
Pentium D 352 (3.20Ghz)
512 DDR
120GBHD
here is a link
http://emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=T3516
(sounds lackluster compared to these other comps, but it was only $200!!!)

I also bought the X1600 the same day and when I first turned on the cpu, the card was in there. I dont think that had anything to do with it, but it still doesnt recognize it. Maybe its the card? I will try to take it back to best buy and exchange it for the same model.
 
Is your computer booting up but not showing anything on the monitor? I had the exact same problem if that's what is going on with yours. I tried EVERYTHING that includes new psu, new motherboard, different vid cards, different ram, different cpu, everything. It got to a point my pocket was feeling pretty empty and I decided to see what would happen if I tried a different monitor cable...yeah that was the problem! My monitor has a vga cable and a dvi cable and it was the dvi cable that wasn't working, because i used the vga cable in a PCI video card and that posted. So I popped on a vga to dvi adapter (cause my card doesn't have a vga slot) and that did the trick! Hope this helps....
 
Its not my monitor cable, because I can plug the monitor into the motherboard vga slot for my LCD display. Its when I plug the monitor cable into the graphics card in the PCI slot where it doesn't work. Its real weird.

The X1600 did NOT have a power cable, that kinda surprised me, I was expecting one. My 9800Pro had one.
 
Try taking the card completely out of the slot and reinserting it. Sometimes that might fix the problem.
 
Just tried it last night. I would wait about a minute, start it up and turn it back off, then start it back up again with the card inserted. Still nothing. Its my first PCI express card, so I cant try any others to see what it is. Maybe its the card itself. Hopefully a new one would help it out.


I just wanna play games!!!!! ahhhh!!!!
 
Success! I went to best buy to exchange the card, and it turned out to be a bad card. I think I smelled something when I first booted up. I knew something fishy was going on. The card is recognized and everything works fine.... well almost everything. I still cant get my audio on my system to work. (thats the last problem...)
 
well that's good! It's rarely the card but it can happen. glad you got it resolved.
 
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