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ASUS Extreme AH3650 on VIA based mainboard not working? - 2009/06/12 14:20
When I first put in the ASUS Extreme AH3650 512MB Silent graphics card into the mainboard and try to boot up, the system won't boot and there is no familiar beep sound indicating that post is fine. So, I clear the BIOS settings and post is fine after that. Then, I just change the BIOS date and nothing else, then save the settings. The system just won't boot, again no beep sound or other sounds.
If I removed one of the 1GB memory sticks and the system will work without issues, booting, Windows XP and games running fine. I can change BIOS, save and boot up without issues. Both of my memory sticks are Kingston DDR2 of 1GB which are same model. The system work fine with two times 1GB meory with onboard graphics device, without the ASUS Extreme AH3650 installed. I tried the latest mainboard BIOS's and older as well, but no luck.
From the MSI support I did receive the following, VIA’s P4M900, P4M890, K8M890, K8T890, K8N890 and PT890 chipsets can’t support PCI Express Gen2 and the problem can be patched by video BIOS update. Please contact your graphics card vendor to get the BIOS with Gen1 mode. So, not sure where and how to get the video BIOS in Gen1 mode. Anyone else has this problem? Any suggestion?
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