It wasn't the video card, but the SLOT

[Evil_T0NY {CLR}]

..the video card slot.

I have an older ASUS A8N (or whatever, think I'm close) SLI- Deluxe.

I have older 6800GT eVGA video card....a couple of times my system would "lock up" when I'm browsing, then when I go to reboot....I'd here the Speaker go.

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep -beep-beep.

I figured it was the video, for one, the monitor wasn't going on (no POST), just the Amber flashing light (instead of turning onto Green) on the monitor.

I thought it was my video card going out.

So I tried the Video card in the 2nd SLI Slot (Dual PCI Express slots)

Looks like it worked in THAT slot. Can anyone account for what happened here?

OTHER SLI Slot bad or something else? Perhaps it's too loose a fit (I have noticed that, because that bracket ont he end that's suppose to "snap" in broke off...been that way for a while...and after some time....it became a "looser" fit?

Reason I say this...also, is because when I slipped the video card into the other (never used slot) it fit rather snuggly

ALSO, the previous video card is a friggin MONSTER (a lot of weight) and of course, since the machine sits upright, perhaps the weight of the card started to wear it down?

Personally I think some vid cards are TOO friggin bulky

I recently got a 9400 GT 1 gig card (PNY) funny, a better card, but not HUGE Fan encasement like the other

A smaller brass/copper heat sink with a smaller transparent plastic fan on top.

That's wierd....how my old 6800GT is a big bulky thing (only 256 megs vid RAM), while this 9400 PNY card

Look at the pics....tiny little thing, and runs FALLOUT a WHOLE lot better. LOL.

Wonder why this is??

It has a heat sink, and a dinky heat sink fan, but does the job apparently.

The kicker is, I couldn't try the other Vid card in the OTHER slot....why? Because the thing is so LOOOONNG, components such as the little co-pocessor fan and heat sink (on the ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe board) gets int he way.

THIS new card CLEARS it...nothing gets in the way of it.

So with that said, think my theory might be a correct.....the big bulky card was so heavy that it loosened the "grip" on the card causing the pins to "spread" out?

[juneau]

Sounds like a dirty graphics slot to me. Never once heard of a grpahics slot become 'loose'. Or any slot for that matter.

The 9400GT is newer and not very power hungry with new core/pcb designs etc. You're also comparing a mid-high end card of it's time (6800GT) to a low end newish card (9400GT).

[Skud]

Sounds like the same MOBO I had before my last upgrade. I was starting to have probs with graphics, but it seemed like it was after a driver update...they continued though even after I tried to roll it back. I never looked into it much further than that: used it as an excuse for a new build.

I still have that ASUS A8N32 sli-deluxe with a mounted AMD FX60, Zalman fan, and 4 gigs of corsair memory sitting around, if anyone can think of a use for it...and the Asus 8800 gts card.

[Evil_T0NY {CLR}]

Sounds like the same MOBO I had before my last upgrade. I was starting to have probs with graphics, but it seemed like it was after a driver update...they continued though even after I tried to roll it back. I never looked into it much further than that: used it as an excuse for a new build.

I still have that ASUS A8N32 sli-deluxe with a mounted AMD FX60, Zalman fan, and 4 gigs of corsair memory sitting around, if anyone can think of a use for it...and the Asus 8800 gts card.

I could use some more memory. You giving it away?

[Evil_T0NY {CLR}]

Sounds like a dirty graphics slot to me. Never once heard of a grpahics slot become 'loose'. Or any slot for that matter.

That's what SHE said!

The 9400GT is newer and not very power hungry with new core/pcb designs etc. You're also comparing a mid-high end card of it's time (6800GT) to a low end newish card (9400GT).

Kind of reminds me of "Back to the Future III" where they dug up the Delorean in the mine and they had to replace a tiney capacitor with a LARGER set of tubes and crap. LOL

Basically, they make things SMALLER the further we go ahead into the future.

[Skud]

I could use some more memory. You giving it away?

10 bucks for s/h and I could send you the memory.

[Evil_T0NY {CLR}]

10 bucks for s/h and I could send you the memory.

COOL!
Check your PM , please

[mapes]

Tony that beeping is a post code error condition. Count the beeps long or short and look it up online. There are plenty of websites that list the decode on what the problem is. This way you'll know for sure if it's the MB