8800 GT not working in A8V-VM SE

[guy_genie]

Hi guys ,
please help me. I have a asus motherboard (A8V-VM SE , version 0702 )
AMD Athlon 64 processor 3500+
2.19 Ghz
1.2 GB RAM
550 W power supply ,with a rating of 20A on +12V rail


I fiited my 8800 GT into PCI-E slot .And when I booted my system using onboard graphics (normal way) " , it doesn't detect my new hardware.

Then when I connected my monitor cable to graphics card , the screen blanks , but no display comes ( I had changed my BIOS seetings to boot from PCI-E slot)

Can anyone please help me ?

[T.J.]

Is this a new graphic card or an old one. Try to connect it in another peripheral and check whether the card is in working condition or not

[Hockson]

they are not backwards compatible.

you need a pci e rev 2.0 board

A8v-vm se its not compatible with last pcie 2.0 cards im afraid, at least until asus will post a new bios update, and who knows how many time are we suposed to wait for. That was my problem. My sistem is practically as yours. But i was so lucky to ask where i bought my mainboard "one month ago" and they changed it for a secondhand but unused dfi nforce4 infinity without paying a penny. Try to find a mainboard 939 with a nvidia or amd chipset, they should work just fine as mine does. The problem is mainly with via chipset.
Another dont recomended solution its to update graphic cards bios with a modded Gen1 bios, that makes your 8800gt a pcie 1.x card instead of 2.0 (Gen2) but if you´ll do so you´ll lose your garanty. But what the hell it shoulds work.
If you can afford it upgrade your sistem with new but not expensive core2 cpu as 2160 which is highly overclockable. If you keep your 4200, so do i, you must know about the bottleneck, when your 8800gt get fine and play games just push the filters to 4xAA and 16 or 8 anisotropic and put the games at high quality (crysis just high) The bottleneck practically will dissapear, just a few 2 to 5 frames down of a core2 x6850 at crysis dont worth the money, core2, mobo and ddr2 cost.