ECS P4M800PRO-M Mobo giving me a lot of headaches

[anticlutch]

Yesterday, I went to Fry's Electronics to get a combo (a C2D E6400 and the ECS mobo for $200 US). I was able to get everything set up inside my case, but as soon as I had turned it on, LOTS of problems arose... so after being forced to do a clean install of XP, everything seemed to go fine. However, the mobo refused (and still does) to recognize my Saphhire x800GTO... whenever I plug my monitor into the graphics card, the screen stays blank. But when I plug it into the integrated video card, it works flawlessly.

Is there any way for me to turn off the onboard video and use the AGP vid card instead? I've looked in the BIOS many times but I've yet to find anything that will turn off the onboard video... any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[aximbigfan]

look for an option to change which video port is started first. set it as agp.


chris

 

[anticlutch]

I've tried that but it made no difference before. However, after taking out the card and putting it back in a few times got it to start working... thanks for the help though and please close this thread

 

[ktr]

get another board.

i work for frys and we are using that board to change our pos to xp (100+)...and a lot of them are bad...

 

[tkpenalty]

P4M800??? why the hell did you get a socket 478 board? If you got a Socket 478, at least get the P4GD1

 

[ktr]

no, its a 755, with a core2duo support, agp, and can use ddr2 and ddr memory.

 

[tkpenalty]

no, its a 755, with a core2duo support, agp, and can use ddr2 and ddr memory.

Weird... why agp?

 

[Polaris573]

Weird... why agp?

For people who don't want to or can't spend the money to upgrade their video card.

 

[anticlutch]

For people who don't want to or can't spend the money to upgrade their video card.

Exactly

This is just a transition board until I can get a decent mobo and DDR2 ram without killing my wallet

@ ktr: Thanks for the suggestion but since I got everything working I don't see any reason to disassemble everything just to swap out the mobo... if anything goes wrong within a couple of weeks I'm going to return it and just upgrade to a PCI-E mobo w/ DDR2 ram.