Sorry for the disappearance from the board if anyone even remembers me. I was in the middle of a worklog and disappeared. Life got crazy and has stayed crazy. Anywho, I'm trying to upgrade a pc for a buddy of mine in my spare time (insert psychotic laugh here) and ran into some trouble.

I added another stick of ram to bring him to 512, threw in a larger hdd, and am trying to offload the graphics processing off of the 733mhz ONBOARD processor and onto a pci gpu. There is no agp slot.

Here is a link to the mobo.
PCCHIPS Web Site

and the gpu
Newegg.com - XFX GeForce FX5200 PV-T64K-NT Low Profile Video Card with L-P Bracket - Retail

The first thing I tried was just pluggin it in and firing up the pc. Well that didn't work. I got 1 beep followed by I'm pretty sure 9 smaller beeps. I removed the card, booted the machine, uninstalled the existing display driver, shut down the machine, reinstalled the new card and rebooted. I get no beeps, but I also get no signal to the display.

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated!

Check the BIOS for options regarding the primary display adapter. Disable it completely in the BIOS if possible. Then check for a jumper on the motherboard. On a board that old it will probably be a jumper.


BTW the 5200 was well known to be a whopping POS in all it's many forms and for that price you could also probably score a socket 754 sempron CPU and motherboard if you look around. The computer you are working on is pretty much a dead end. Part it out on ebay and have him invest a little cash in something better. No offense meant, just some advice.

Quote: Originally Posted by RAA_Kr1cH I got 1 beep followed by I'm pretty sure 9 smaller beeps. I removed the card, booted the machine, uninstalled the existing display driver, shut down the machine, reinstalled the new card and rebooted. I get no beeps, but I also get no signal to the display. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated!

if i can remember correctly, i believe thats a problem with the video memory on that video card, try a different card...

you should also disable/enable any options in your BIOS that would be indicative of using an add-on PCI graphics adapter...

could also be a crap psu...but i think the problem would be a little more intermittent than that.

Thanks for the quick replies! Apparently I need to give more info though. I'm just fixin it up for a buddy, so it's not my to sell haha.

I'll get some screenies up of the bios if I can, but there is NO option that I can find to disable existing graphics, and NO jumpers that I can find, also from what I can tell of the piss poor documentation there aren't jumpers for that either. Or anyway to disable onboard gpu.

Here's a link to the manual if you're interested.
PCCHIPS Web Site

Flu3man is correct on the beep code, that is a graphics failure code that can be cause by incorrect bios settings. In you bios go to your PCI/Plugandplay and make sure its not on AGP.

If that doesn't work use the jumper to clear the CMOS and try again. If it still fails all things lead to a bad card with the possibility of the board not being able to use a secondary gpu.

One more thing to try would be to make sure your onboard PCI IDE is set to detect devices.

Good luck.