Rampage III Video Issues

willriker · 22-10-2010, 13:14

I just installed an Asus Rampage III motherboard with 24 GB of Corsair 1600 Mhz 4 GB chip RAM plus a single WD Caviar Black 2 TB harddrive in an Antec 1200 Two Case to get things fired up. I have a total of 8 Caviar Black SATA drives x 2 TB each to install once I get the system up and running.

I get everything fired up but no video signal. Using a Diamond HDMI /DVI / VGA card that worked just fine in my other PC but now nothing. All I get on the monitor is a message to check analog cable. The Asus bios screens or nothing else comes up. The hard drive is out of my other PC with Win XP Pro and full system on it.

Any ideas?

Appreciate your time.

haydnwalker · 22-10-2010, 15:12

Have you tried disconnecting all of the extra kit (ie all the 2TB Disks) and take it back to a basic system. It could be that there isn't enough power going through to the graphics card.

Are you using a VGA cable? "Check Analog Cable" suggests it's VGA. Have you tried with DVI if you monitor supports it?

How about buying another VGA cable (or borrowing from a friend) to check you havent inadvertently damaged yours?

Are there any "Beeps" when the machine boots?

DocDutch · 22-10-2010, 15:34

i'm thinking more in the line of power issues on the pc which psu have you got. Also what graphics card is in the machine and you got enough memory and storage capacity in the pc

haydnwalker · 22-10-2010, 15:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by DocDutch

i'm thinking more in the line of power issues on the pc which psu have you got. Also what graphics card is in the machine and you got enough memory and storage capacity in the pc

I don't think its power issues directly (as he must have a decent PSU to support 8 WD 2TB HDDs and 24Gb RAM?)

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Which is why I suggested unplugging the 2TB disks and trying booting again.

damien c · 22-10-2010, 18:19

Trust me on this I know about this board, take it back to the shop where you bought it from have them test it if the board is faulty get it rma'd then DO NOT BUY ANOTHER!!!

The reason I say that is because I had 6 of them in the space of a week with various different issues, and in the end I ended up going back to my Rampage II Extreme mobo.

But before you do that test the graphic's card in your old pc if possible to see if that has been damaged while transfering to the new board.

Then if that works fine check each stick of ram on there own to see if any of them are faulty.

Then take the cpu out of the board and make sure there is no thermal paste on the bottom of the cpu and on the pins.

Then do as above disconnect all drives etc and see if the post screen comes up.

If that is all fine then you have a issue with the board at which point, you need to get a refund and then buy a Gigabyte or a different Asus board.

Also it may have 2 8 pin cpu power sockets, but you only need to plug both in if you are going to do major overclocking, also make sure if you have plugged both in that you have used the correct leads if you psu has 2 8 pin cpu, plugs because if you have used a 8 pin pci-e power lead then you will have fried your board.