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.

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.