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Pentium D 930 Chipset
Hi,
I have an Asus P5VD1 motherboard and have recently bought a Pentium 930 and PCI-E x16 graphics card. After installing them when powering on all the usual stuff happens, all fans (Including graphics card) spin, DVD fires up, HDD spins etc, however there is no output to the monitor. I have discovered that the graphics card is PCI-E x16 and the motherboard will only support PCI-E x16 in x4 mode, not enough for the card. I have also noticed on the side of the Pentium 930's box "Requires 945/955X Express Chipset PCG05A". The ASUS motherboard has Northbridge: VIA PT880Ultra and Southbridgfe: VT 8237R chipsets. Does this mean that the CPU is rendered useless in this motherboard, even though, monitor output aside, all appears normal? Any help or guidence at all very much appreciated, Thanks Adam |
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Pentium D 930 Chipset
adamsalisbury wrote:
Hi, I have an Asus P5VD1 motherboard and have recently bought a Pentium 930 and PCI-E x16 graphics card. After installing them when powering on all the usual stuff happens, all fans (Including graphics card) spin, DVD fires up, HDD spins etc, however there is no output to the monitor. I have discovered that the graphics card is PCI-E x16 and the motherboard will only support PCI-E x16 in x4 mode, not enough for the card. I have also noticed on the side of the Pentium 930's box "Requires 945/955X Express Chipset PCG05A". The ASUS motherboard has Northbridge: VIA PT880Ultra and Southbridgfe: VT 8237R chipsets. Does this mean that the CPU is rendered useless in this motherboard, even though, monitor output aside, all appears normal? Any help or guidence at all very much appreciated, Thanks Adam A list of tested boards is at: http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/rese...nce/216415.htm I know it is not a comprehensive list but, by those types of Asus boards that are on it, I would say that the one you have is not compatible. |
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Pentium D 930 Chipset
Hi,
I've just found a webpage on the Asus site that gives a full list of supported processors for the P5VD1-X motherboard and it is in the list. http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...Language=en-us Thanks, Adam |
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Pentium D 930 Chipset
adamsalisbury wrote:
Hi, I've just found a webpage on the Asus site that gives a full list of supported processors for the P5VD1-X motherboard and it is in the list. http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...Language=en-us Thanks, Adam Yeah, you're right. However, if you search CPU using: Motherboard, Type: Socket775, Name: P5VD1-X, and select the D930 it also says that it supports the 930 since Bios 0502 and offers 0402 as the latest Bios download, which doesn't seem too helpful. Perhaps you should check the Bios on your board: http://support.asus.com/technicaldoc...Language=en-us |
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Pentium D 930 Chipset
That could be a problem.
Bios 0502 is available off the ASUS after a little digging. Bios 0502, most current excluding betas, was released (from what I can tell) on 2005/12/01. I bought the motherboard only a couple of weeks ago, so is it a fair assumption that it will come with the current version? Or is it anyone's guess? As I stated before I am graphics cardless at the moment so it is not just a case of catching a glimps of the Bios in POST and the motherboard revision of 2.03 means very little to me. |
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Pentium D 930 Chipset
adamsalisbury wrote:
That could be a problem. Bios 0502 is available off the ASUS after a little digging. Bios 0502, most current excluding betas, was released (from what I can tell) on 2005/12/01. I bought the motherboard only a couple of weeks ago, so is it a fair assumption that it will come with the current version? Or is it anyone's guess? I would bet the price of a case of good beer that the BIOS in the board is whatever was mass burned shortly before the board was shipped. Meaning that it may be months old, depending on how long it has been in inventory at the distributor and/or retailer. Assume you need to upgrade, unless the boot screen says otherwise. As I stated before I am graphics cardless at the moment so it is not just a case of catching a glimps of the Bios in POST and the motherboard revision of 2.03 means very little to me. As above, means nothing. I can't think of a good way to address this other than to add a graphics card. You can go unaccelerated, and almost any cheap card should get the info you need. -- bill davidsen SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com |
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