Motherboard / Video Card Compatibility

Hey guys.

I've got a ECS 661FX-M7 motherboard, with the latest BIOS, with 2Gb ram. I also have an nVidia GeForce 5600 FX, but whenever I put it in the AGP slot the computer gives a POST error beep. (1 long, 2 short).

I'm basically ready at this point to simply assume that my motherboard doesn't support this video card, and will probably buy another video card.

My question is: How do I prevent this from happening again? How would I go about determining what video cards my motherboard can support?

Thanks,
Graphics-less Anonymous.

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Sure your graphics card works? Usually this error code (beeps) is if mobo does not find graphics card.

And...

ECS has AIDS, SIS has AIDS, you get the drift

Sounds a lot like the symptoms my fuxord video card gives when i install it on any motherboard.

Id say that its the card thats shafted, test it on another putter and see if you can manage to get some of the magical blue smoke.

Failing that have you set up your bios correctly?
try turning the agp bus down to like 2x, no fast page and like 16mb of ram allowed through the hole.
no OVARCLOAK settings, normal voltages and timings (if your bios lets you assign em)

Try from there and gently and steadily work your way up to normal settings.

>>4

Awesome idea, thanks!

I have tried the video card in another computer (oldish 1Ghz), and it works.

I tried what you suggested, limiting all video related settings I could find to minimum, and then bringing each one up individually - and then all of them in various different configurations - but unfortunately I get the same problem every time.

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how HUEG is your PSU, i had an old Asus-A7A266 mobo that loevd wattage, i had a 350w standard case PSU and i could run either a hard drive or a video card, not both at the same time :(

I upgraded mah jiggawatts and it all turned out sweet.

SiS661FX Chipset apparently has trouble with Nv cards though, theres another thread on here with some dood sharing your pain.