Do PCIe motherboards require mandatory PCIe graphics cards to run?

[drf]

Do PCI express x16 motherboards require mandatory PCIe graphics card to run?

I am trying to run Celeron D 3.20 GHz on MS-7187 ver. 3.C motherboard ( http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/pc/t9207.htm )
with only PCI graphics card, as I have no PCIe graphics card.

The motherboard is from Medion PC model: PC MT7 MED MT 427G

When I try to turn it on the fan on CPU spins for a second or two and then stops, but when I press the power button again it behaves differently: the fan spins fast then slows down and spins all the time slowly, I can also hear a floppy drive seek sound, so it seems to be working, but the monitor screen is black - it seems that there is no signal coming out of the PCI graphics card. I tried two of them already.

So what is the problem? Is the CPU or the motherboard faulty or PCI graphics cards or simply PCIe motherboards have to have PCIe graphics card installed in order to run at all?

BTW, does anyone know if this motherboard can support 2TB hard drives? The latest motherboard BIOS update on Medions webpage is ver. 4.03 from 18.07.2006.

Many thanks for your replies and suggestions.

[spoon_]

Shame you cannot get to BIOS as there is option to set primary display.

In a nutshell, no you should be fine with PCI GPU.

[blueball]

There may be an option in BIOS to define what GPU to boot from PCI or PEG (PCIe). The trouble is you need to see the BIOS screen to set it. Can you borrow a PCIe card?

[ik9000]

Has the computer always had a graphics card in it or have you just added one and are trying to get it to work?

And not wishing to sound patronising, is the monitor plugged into the graphics card connector, and not the motherboard connector. Presume this isn't your mistake, but I have had a reasonably tech-savvy friend complain he'd bought a dud card recently - guess what the problem was...

[varkanoid]

Do PCI express x16 motherboards require mandatory PCIe graphics card to run?

I am trying to run Celeron D 3.20 GHz on MS-7187 ver. 3.C motherboard ( http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/pc/t9207.htm )
with only PCI graphics card, as I have no PCIe graphics card.

The motherboard is from Medion PC model: PC MT7 MED MT 427G

When I try to turn it on the fan on CPU spins for a second or two and then stops, but when I press the power button again it behaves differently: the fan spins fast then slows down and spins all the time slowly, I can also hear a floppy drive seek sound, so it seems to be working, but the monitor screen is black - it seems that there is no signal coming out of the PCI graphics card. I tried two of them already.

So what is the problem? Is the CPU or the motherboard faulty or PCI graphics cards or simply PCIe motherboards have to have PCIe graphics card installed in order to run at all?

BTW, does anyone know if this motherboard can support 2TB hard drives? The latest motherboard BIOS update on Medions webpage is ver. 4.03 from 18.07.2006.

Many thanks for your replies and suggestions.

This might be a stupid question but how come you are in this situation in the first place ? Did a previous graphics card go kaput or is this PC not been used by you before ?

ie what happened to the old working graphics card ?

[Tattysnuc]

Whenever I've tried a PCI card, they've never worked. I have subsequently binned the PCI cards which were definitely working when they were "archived"

In the bios of my shuttle which has Intel onboard gfx, a PCI slot and a PCI express slot, you don;t get the option to boot from PCI, only PCI express.

I think you have hit the nail on the head, in that you can't now boot from a PCI card...

If you plop it into another machine that has a PCI and PCI-e port, boot with it in into windows, does it show up?

[ik9000]

weird. I've used both PCI and PCIe and both work fine, plus my mobo (asus) has option for booting with both/either one