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Gigabyte Motherboard Issue
JustinSane07
Really, stupid?Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
Really, stupid?Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
So my friend has a brand new Gigabyte motherboard. She couldn't get it to work, I went over there. Nothing for me either. Everything is plugged in properly, we tried two different video cards that we know work, a brand new DVD drive, and a new hard drive. Everything powers on, all the fans spin, but no picture ever pops up on the monitor.
Now here's the thing, unlike my A-BIT, the Gigabyte doesn't have error codes on it. It does have a set of LEDs. I figure I would look up the LED combination and see what it means. The manual? No help. The Gigabyte site? No help. A quick glance at Google produced no help either (granted, I didn't look too deeply).
You can see the LEDs there near the memory. It goes from top to bottom..
Red
Orange(could be yellow)
Green
Green
We're thinking either the PCI slots on mobo are DOA or her power supply can't handle the new video card. There is no on board video with this mobo though. But we tried it with her 8800GT and her old 5500. I didn't even bother with the GTX260.
So yeah, any help would be awesome.
Now here's the thing, unlike my A-BIT, the Gigabyte doesn't have error codes on it. It does have a set of LEDs. I figure I would look up the LED combination and see what it means. The manual? No help. The Gigabyte site? No help. A quick glance at Google produced no help either (granted, I didn't look too deeply).
You can see the LEDs there near the memory. It goes from top to bottom..
Red
Orange(could be yellow)
Green
Green
We're thinking either the PCI slots on mobo are DOA or her power supply can't handle the new video card. There is no on board video with this mobo though. But we tried it with her 8800GT and her old 5500. I didn't even bother with the GTX260.
So yeah, any help would be awesome.
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System specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX
EVGA GTX260 896MB
Samsung 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE (NewEgg send me an IDE burner instead of a SATA, but they refunded me the $ for the IDE drive. o_O)
G.SKILL 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) x 2
Antec 900 case
Antec Trio 550w PSU.
Not a damn clue. Nothing but black monitor screens.
and yeah, she posted her specs.
Christ, of all fucking things.
It's empty in the picture I took too. God damn it.
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