I have an ASUS P5VD2-X Motherboard and it doesnt even boot to bios screen. Yesterday I had to upgrade the graphics card and fan and now it doesnt even show signs of life. I have tried swapping the PS and graphics card...still no beep.Can it be the processor or board is fried? Whats wrong?

Hello here is the asus homepage:

http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=P5VD2-MX%20SE&p=1&s=22

Please select your windows system.

The driver can be downloaded, by selecting the driver and click on global for download.
The files needs to be unziped before you install.

Blue screen of death means you have a driver issue, or missing an inportant system file.

Look in the device manager, for any drivers missing.

Try first to upgrade your graphic driver.
Visit the graphic cards homepage, for downloading the new driver.

You sometimes have to do this in failsafe mode, by pressing F8 when the pc is booting.

Good luck

it should working when you disable onboard graphic card on bios.
if not maybe some thing wrong when you attach that graphic card on VGA slot.

Hello, I am the technician that will be assisting you today. My name is Norman-Wynne Damstra.Welcome to Fixya, Tim.

I think that you will need to upgrade the BIOS software for your mainboard.

This will increase support you new processors, it would be best for a computer technician to flash the BIOS for you.

Click here to download the latest BIOS for your ASUS mainboard.

Click the BIOS heading and then click the latest one being the top one. Click Global to download.

Take care!
Norman-Wynne Damstra

Its is possible that the power supply isnt powering the graphics card, because of the power needed to run the fan and gpu. It is a more updated card than the 8600gt with more graphics processing speeds and capabilities, so it is possible you will have to buy a new power pack with more wattage.

Could be your BIOS version doesn't support that grahics card. Try instaling MSI LiveUpdate and flashing your BIOS (LiveUpdate download here: http://global.msi.eu/index.php?func=downloadindex)
If that doesn't help, maybe try another graphics card in the system, see if it'll boot.

The board should recognise this card ,however connect card with pc off and reset your cmos jmper hold for few seconds or take battery out,replace boot up get into bios ,normally delete button,reset your time and date and save try reboot

very simple, go in the bios and search for you Integrated Graphics and shut it down and make sure u set it to pci-e than it wil work

You can get "any" type of PCI-X graphic card to your system, it doesnt matter if the memories on the graphic card are ddr2 ddr3 ddr4 or ddr5. It should work. If you have a C2D processor @ 1.8GHz you probably have Intel E6300. You can pair it with any graphic card. Its only up to your budget.

For any more questions, contact me anytime

Hello itsme99, click on this link I have posted. This link shows what CPU you're Asus P5VD2-MX SE motherboard can run.
http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5VD2-MX%20SE
You're board does not support Quad core CPU's!
This next link is the main page (Drivers, FAQ's ect.) for the Asus P5VD2-MX SE motherboard. (Look to the left of the page under Related Link). http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?modelname=P5VD2-MX%20SE&SLanguage=en-us
Here is a list of Asus Quad core motherboards.
http://event.asus.com/mb/quad_core/

Have a nice day.
Enjoy!
M

try this -remove the card then restart the pc (if this is xp) start/right click my computer/properties/device manger-look for "display adapters" find the onboard type you have and uninstall it power off then install the new card you might have to look in device manager for something referred to as graphics controller