[xyzz1233]

Hey all. I have a XFX GeForce 8800GT, and it's causing me some trouble. The card is plugged in and running (I can hear the fan), but the motherboard refuses to let it be the primary video device. I figured that it was one of those PCIe issues, so I flashed the BIOS. That didn't help, so I looked in the CMOS for something I could use to change the primary video device. I switched it to PCIEX, and rebooted. Still no output from the 8800GT. I tried flashing the BIOS again, this time with an unlocked BIOS, wondering if there is some other setting for this. Nothing.

Any ideas as to what is wrong? Thanks!

EDIT:
I figured that it might be good to tell my system's specs.

My computer is a junky gateway GT5056 with 2 GB ram, an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800, a Foxconn C51GU01 motherboard (as the title states), a 250 GB hard drive, and an onboard GeForce 6100 GPU, along with my unworking 8800GT.

Edited by xyzz1233, 28 September 2008 - 09:25 AM.

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On some boards you may have to turn the onboard graphics off manually, they don't always turn themselves off automatically.

Typically a board that doesn't see a separate card usually means either the card's faulty, the board doesn't recognise the card, the card's underpowered, or the PCI-Ex slot is dead.

[Neil Jones]

On some boards you may have to turn the onboard graphics off manually, they don't always turn themselves off automatically.

Typically a board that doesn't see a separate card usually means either the card's faulty, the board doesn't recognise the card, the card's underpowered, or the PCI-Ex slot is dead.

[xyzz1233]

Hmm... How would I go about disabling the onboard video? Like I said, I tried turning the primary video to the PCIe slot, and I've also tried disabling it in the device manager. None of those work.

[Neil Jones]

You don't disable it in Device Manager, you disable it in the BIOS.
If no option is available then its a board that should turn it off automatically and the fact it isn't would suggest your 8800 is faulty.

[xyzz1233]

It doesn't look like there is an option in there.

If only I had another motherboard to test it on...