GA-890GPA-UD3H New Build - No Video

[blackie]

My second try with this board. I RMAed the first one. The second one is doing exactly the same as the first - it growls (beep?) once on power up, cooler fan spins but NEVER any video. The HD/power LED also blinks once every 3 seconds.

This build I never even tried to put it in the case. It is on a piece of cardboard. One memory stick. 24 pin and 8 pin power. CPU and cooler. Front panel connectors (power LED, speaker, etc). USB keyboard.

I tried 2 NVIDIA based graphics cards in each PCI-E slot. Both DVI and D-SUB. Nothing. (The display works fine from my laptop but always says there is no signal when connected to the 890GPA).

I also tried the on-board D-Sub and DVI. Nothing.

So a couple of questions:

(1) If there is no graphics card inserted - is the MB supposed to display on the on-board connectors?
(2) Could the memory be bad? It is new and I have no way to test it - I assume I could not get the 1 growl if the memory was bad.
(3) Is there some switch, kick in the butt or other thing I am missing?

It seems difficult to believe that I could get 2 different boards with the same NO VIDEO problem. I must be doing something wrong.

Suggestions?

[ljlopz]

If you see my post titled "no video" I had the same problem as you did and I got it to show after I had removed all memory except 4GB, and kept 1 Hard drive and 2 dvd/cd rom drives.  I now see the start up logo screen etc, but now it just loops.

Before I selected Y for the SATA Mode Message it asked me to insert the boot drive.  I didnt do this and restarted and now it just reboots without bringing this message again to load the boot drive.

So hopefully you fare better than I after removing some drives/memory.  I also used the analog connection instead of the DVI.

[blackie]

Yes I did see your post. Thought they might be related - but:

My system is already at the minimum. Only 1 memory stick (4 Gb), video card and keyboard. No hard drives, no mouse, no DVD, nothing.

Still no video at all. Now I am not even getting the 1 growl from the speaker (the wire was so tight I might have pulled it louse - still checking that).

My only new components for this system were the MB and memory.

Thanks for the reply.

[Dark Mantis]

I would double check all the power connections carefully. It only needs one pin to be loose to have a problem.

Does your motherboard BIOS version support the procesor you have installed?

[blackie]

Thanks - I will check the power connections again.

The question about the BIOS supporting the processor is what I was thinking about last night before going to sleep. Where on the board is the BIOS revision? (Since I can not get into the BIOS to find it there)>

In any case I have an older Alathon 64 (5400+) CPU that should be supported - I will try that.

Thanks.

[absic]

Hi,

your rev 2.1 Motherboard should support the 1090T out of the box.

[blackie]

Solved!

Yes my processor is supported. Yes power pins are in. BUT the video card was not.

This board just a bit lower than my other board. With this board the flange on the end of the video card hits (and indents) the cardboard I had the MB on. I know you are not supposed to make the MB uneven - BUT YOU HAVE TO. So putting a bit of non-conducting riser allowed the video card to be fully inserted and the durn thing POSTed and I was able to get to the BIOS setup screen.

Now to get my old RAID 1 set up (I know - a new install).

Thanks for all your help guys!

[Dark Mantis]

No problem. Next time make sure that you install a buzzer as that would have alerted you to the fact that your GPU wasn't fitted correctly in the first place.