Nothing on screen when PCI card installed 1

[upnatom]

I've recently purchased an Asus A7N8X-X with AMD 2500+, 256 MB RAM and a Radeon 9600XT.

All works well until I put a PCI card into it. When a PCI card is installed (I've tried two sound cards and a scsi card) there is nothing on the monitor - cant even get into BIOS.

I've trawled through the BIOS trying different options, but nothing has worked. I've also flashed the latest BIOS update (1009) from ASUS - no help.

When I take take the PCI card out, all is well again.

Has anyone seen this problem before?

thanks

 

[MrGreenleaf]

How are your memory modules installed? Are they installed for dual channell configuration? if so what size and speed memory modules are you using? Try one single dimm in single memory mode. And ensure that the pci bus frequency is set correctly. Hope I can Help. Good Luck

 

[Xemus]

Which PCI slot are you using? Some boards have the first PCI slot shared, and it will cause conflicts when devices are plugged into it, under certain situations.
Try a different slot.

http://www.closedsocket.com