Ok im having a problem when I cold boot my machine. My machine: amd fx-55, asus a8n-sli deluxe (revision 1011), 2 gig ddr 3200 400mhz (2 sticks of 1 gig), Enermax Noisetaker EG701AX-VE(W) SFMA 24P (ALL IN ONE) SLI Supports 600Watt Power Supply, samsung 915n 8ms gaming lcd with analog to dvi adapter to pc, dual NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT 256MB 16X PCI EXPRESS VIDEO CARD in sli mode,dvd rom, dvd-/+r drive, win xp pro with all current updates. Now heres my problem...When I cold boot the machine (not restart, been sitting there off for a while) the system boots, but I get a ton of freaky graphical garbage on the screen with no usual boot info text, and then after its boot cycle, where it would normally be sitting at my desktop, the screen is blank...If I hit the reboot button and keep the monitor plugged into the main (#1) vid card on port #1, it does the same thing...If I remove the monitor from the card and reboot then just try to plug in the cable to either port on any of the two video cards i usually get the monitor to just blink its LED light and nothing, but after a few reboots and trying new ports, it eventually shows my display normally... Im sure theres something im missing...Maybe a BIOS setting or vid card setting...Anyways, any help would be greatly appreciated.
try another videocard even if a pci to see if still does it or not. try the card in another computer that can run it. also try another monitor. the reason for this exercise is to isolate the problem as it appears to be a cold solder joint on the videocard. ran into a similar problem like that with a floppy controller card on an old radio shack trs model 4 computer as it would take upto 30 resets before it would see the drive & boot. resoldered all the solder points & worked with no problems.
do you have the small card inbetween the(2) pci-e pointing to two video cards? it has small metal latches on the sides and you pull them outwards and flip the card so the top says two video card and not one.It looks like a litte ram card you you use for a laptop.Also you need the top connector for the top of the two cards to link the, together and the powersupply plug into the molex plug on the board.
sorry another post.Ram slots are labled a,b,c,d on the asus.first stick in A and second stick in C.The Asus bios talks back when there is a problem so hook up your speakers.Well the one I helped build did anyway.
