970a-g46 no video output issues!!!

Hello. I recently had some issues with my CPU. It would overheat when I would play games and finally I was tired of having to keep a fan propped up next to my tower to keep it cool. I decided I wanted to reapply the thermal paste. I bought some arctic 5 silver and applied it incorrectly ( it's my first time dealing with this stuff). As I was screwing the heat sink onto the processor, I applied way too much pressure to screw it in and I bent the processor. Bummed, I went to frys and picked up the AMD fx-4100. I swapped the broke. CPU for the new one and then my computer wouldn't output any video. I mean anything. So I decided after asking a few knowledgeable friends, I might need to buy a new gpu or motherboard. So I decided to buy both. I bought the MSI 970a-g46 and a dinky cheap gpu to return in the event I didn't need it. Nothing worked still! I thought at this point maybe I need a new psu. So I went back to frys and bought a new corsair CX750 watt power supply and a corsair water cooler just to be safe. Still I GET NO VIDEO OUTPUT!! I've tried I. Multiple monitors, multiple cords, multiple outlets, and I've had friends with experience in computers help me get the parts and assemble/ plug In everything in the right spot. I've booted it with and without my ram, hard drive, and cd drive, and still nothing. The next thing to do is call a priest to exorcise my case. Does anyone have any experience with this issue? I've tested the gpu and memory on my friends computer and it works fine for him. Once again, I have a new Motherboard, CPU, PSU, GPU, water cooler. I've thrown money at the problem and it still doesn't work. Is something not compatible or am I cursed to never play computer games again?

First of all please finally list all pc components like I asked for two times already. To post means it will show the first bootup message with results of the power on self-test (cpu-model and clockrate and so on). As somebody build the pc for you - if I understood you correctly - he should have tried to power it on and see if it starts at least. The question was if that has been done or not. If others just assembled parts and you did the rest it is pretty hard to tell what went wrong as you are also obviously lacking some needed knowledge.
If you are confortable with it take the pc apart and put the board with cpu and cooler mounted on a non-conductive surface. Add just basic components like a graphics card, one mem-stick, psu and connect to a display. Try it outside case then. If you are not comfortable with that better contact someone with more experience to review the machine as you set it up.

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970a-G46 no video..

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Try installing 1 stick of ram and a full cmos clear, then switch sticks if it doesnt work.
3 beeps means ram failure.
Also, make sure you have the ram installed into the proper dimms, as indiciated in your manual for dual channel operation.

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MSI 970A-G46 No video 3 beep

SPANISH
Da esos pitidos y nada de video ocurrio de un dia para otro necesito ayuda por favor
ya probe todas las piezas en otras tarjetas madres y todo bien
Procesador: AMD FX 6100
Tarjeta de video: ASUS GTX 550 Ti
Fuente de poder: Agiler 1400W certificada
Memoria RAM: Corsair vengance 4x4GB (8GB)
puse otras memorias y otro procesador y tambien otra tarjeta de video y nada de nada
paso de un dia para otro estaba funcionando todo bien hasta el dia siguiente que se prendio y me salio con esto
ENGLISH (TRANSLATE GOOGLE)
Da those beeps and no video happened from one day to another need help please
and probe all parts in other motherboards and all good
Processor: AMD FX 6100
Video Card: ASUS GTX 550 Ti
Power: 1400W Agiler certified
RAM: Corsair 4x4GB vengance (8GB )
I put other memories and other processor and also another video card and zilch
passage from one day to another was running all fine until the next day they lit it and I came to this

Please use your Inbox for PM (privates messages) if u need more help in spanish. im a single user only. ( not moderator or msi worker), but have a bit of experience. we cant talk on spanish in post forum.
with the 3 beeps the motherboard is telling you the problem is the Memory sticks. i have a trick using a white soft eraser (white means no colorants in build), pass it on the golden contacts carefully like erasing a text, and ONLY by the memory´s golden conductives contacts. then install only 1 memory and try it
in a few cases and depending where u live, some corrosive film is created over those contacts and in the Memory´s rail of the motherboard. if that solve the problem i suggest contact an technician to clean deeply the motherboard memory´s rail.
Translated: usa tu buzón para mensajes privados o PM, solo si necesitas que te ayude mas en español aunque soy solamente un simple usuario pero tengo un poquito de experiencia. no podemos hablar en español en el foro.
Con los 3 beeps la tarjeta madre te esta diciendo que el problema son las memorias RAM. tengo un truquito para eso. utilizando un borrador blanco suave (que no deje residuos) (blanco porque no lleva colorantes y no dejara residuos) pásalo cuidadosamente por los contactos dorados que conectan con la tarjeta madre, como si estuvieses borrando un texto hecho a lápiz (SOLAMENTE POR LOS CONTACTOS DORADOS). Luego instala una sola memoria y prueba
esto es porque en ciertos casos dependiendo de donde vives, se crea una película corrosiva sobre los contactos creando una incorrecta comunicación con la tarjeta madre. si eso resuelve el problema, contacta con un técnico para que limpie a fondo tu tarjeta madre en especial los rieles de memoria.

MOVED: 970A-G46 No Video

This topic has been moved to AMD64 boards.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=163541.0

What is the current BIOS version? Seen printed on the tiny tiny chip, next to SATA ports, or some sticker on board.
In what way do you have the display connected, HDMI or DVI? Try both.
Triple check that necessary power is connected to the board, ATX & ATX2. The board might be able to POST also with a 4-pin to the ATX2.
Check that it is in correct position in the connector block.
Next, minimum build, outside case, on a cardboard :
motherboard, CPU+HSF, 1stick RAM, PSU, VGA, PS2 keyboard if available. Nothing connected to USB3 port.
If you VGA needs extra power feed, have it connected.
Power up by shorting the power pins on motherboard.

Adobe Media Encoder All Video Output 'White'

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Hi,
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970a-g46 mother bord no video output

I have a 970A-G46 motherboard I turned it but no video output I get no beeps but all four power phase lights come on.
I have 2 crucial memory ram 2gb each
450gt video card
Althon 450 triple core 3.2 CPU
450 diablo tech psu
The graphics card and CPU are both compatible and no green sticker on mother board.
I think it might be the ram but I don't know could someone please help.

im having issues of my 970a-G46 AMD970 950 AM3+R. Not giving a video feed but gives me three beeps on speaker. I video card is:GTX NVIDIA 660ti, CPU:AMD Phenom IIx4 965 3.4ghz, Power Supply: Antec BP550 PLUS, Harddrive is Wester Digital 320gb 7200rpm. I know i have installed everything correctly when I power on i receive the four lights for CPU all the fans come on. Also CD/DVD drive also powers on. My issue i receive no video and get three beeps from motherboard. These beeps are like delayed so its beep,beep,beep.............beep,beep,beep............beep,beep,beep...... Also the RAM im using is CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800). Please HELP...

970A-G46 board, no video, memory issue?

hello,
I see a lot of people have the same issue i am about to describe, but the only thing that remains is a question of memory compatibility. I just purchased:
970A-G46
AMD FX-8320
Corsair CX500M 500 Watt Power Supply
I had some no name DDR3 from another box that i planned on using. When i put everything together, all i had connected was the power, the CPU, 4 x 4G DDR3, and an old video card. All the fans came on, but no video, no single post beep. I removed the RAM, then i got 3 beeps, so i am assuming that power and CPU are fine. I replaced the video card with one from my desktop to see if that was the problem. same behavior. so i took 1 stick of the PNY DDR3 from my desktop, and see if that was the problem. Same behavior. Cleared the CMOS several. Same behavior.
Now, i am not an expert in this, but could it be the mobo is that sensitive to memory that my problem can be incompatibility with the memory? again, i am not an expert, but this is the first time i have ran into this. And before i spend ~$160 on 2 x 8G DDR3 that someone suggested in a post, i want to be sure that indeed sounds like it could be the solution to my problem.
thank you very much for taking the time to read this...

Quote from: neothecat on 16-February-14, 08:54:09
I just checked, and i it's 38A. The power supply has additional cables for adding extra power for PCI-E devices, but the motherboard has no where to plug them in (i hope that makes sense...) Instead of trying to get this to work with this motherboard, would you recommend just sucking it up and getting a new one, perhaps one that better supports the FX 8-core chip? Or is this sound like a power supply issue? I went to the newegg site to calculate my PSU needs, and it said i needed 415W, but there seems to be more then just pure wattage that needs to be considered...
I did try one thing. I took out the video card, put a stick of memory in, and i get one beep and two short beeps, which indicates a monitor problem. to me hardware noob brain, it sounds like a need a more powerful PSU. but i figured i would ask those who know what they are doing before i run around buying new stuff if i do not need it...
thank you very much...
Don't worry about the PCIe cables and so on as they're designed to plug directly into your PCIe devices, like your gpus, for instance, with their own 6-8-pin connectors.
I mentioned the 12v rail amperage as that is particularly relevant for cpus these days, especially multi-core cpus. Even though my own PSU (Corsair as well) is only 100W more output than your present one, I'm still getting 49a on the 12v rail--which is ~11 amps > than what your 500W Corsair puts out, which could certainly make a difference. Have you tried entering the UEFI to set your cpu to run on 4-6 cores, just to check out that possibility? *Can* you even get into the UEFI at the moment? (probably not, I guess.)
Like durquavian, I wouldn't ordinarily think this would definitely be *the* problem, but it's a possibility that needs to be ruled out. There are just so *many* little gotcha's that could cause your problems, from incompatible ram, to weak/defective PSUs--even to something as weird as accidentally somehow managing to not seat your cpu properly--long years ago I scared myself once when I had assembled everything and when I turned on the power, mboard lights lit up, fans turned--but no boot! Natch-of course--my cpu was the last thing I reseated, and the cpu reseating solved the problem.... (Obviously, I've never forgotten that incident.)
But if you haven't already done so--reseat your cpu and double-check the fan mount, etc. Luck!

Windows 8 64-bit install on 970a-g46 Mainboard AHCI and NVIDIA DRIVER issues

My Box:
MSI 970A-G46
BIOS 1.9 (AUG 2012) (Tried 1.11 but the nightmare started then)
AMD FX-6100 (STOCK SPEED AND SETTINGS) WITH OEM HSF
16GB PATRIOT VIPER 3 (1866) RUNNING @ (1600)
USED an EVGA 9800GT 1ST AND UPGRADED TO NVIDIA REFERENCE CARD GTX 550 Ti (1GB) WITH SAME ISSUES
90gb MonsterDigital Daytona SATA III SSD DRIVE (OS and minimal programs)
Antec HE 550
I am at a point of pulling my hair out. I decided to upgrade my system to enhance Diablo III game play. I got a combo deal on the mainboard and cpu, and thought the speed of the game caching on a SSD would also help. The first attempt which took a little struggle was Vista 64-bit. Eventually, I was able to get the OS to work with me, and it was smooth. Since M$ decided to offer the Windows 8 Pro upgrade for only $39.99, I thought, what do I had to lose. Well….lots of time. Now, I am not a newbie, though SSD drives haven’t been more than an interesting thought. So yes, I read many guides on everything from Trim enabled Win 7 and 8, and many other do’s and don’ts. What is driving me to the Netherlands of hell, is the installation and how buggy it has been. It boils down to drivers for the IDE/SATA/AHCI CONTROLLER. First, even thought it “sees” the SSD on installation drive selection, after pulling the USB installation drive, the system forgets it, and there is a “problem with the boot sector”. If you load the driver from the AMD site, it lets the install occur “fine”, but there is an issue with that driver which causes an irq conflict which leads to D3 audio issues and freeze ups. I did finally get things in order (not sure which driver I choose for that), and things were smooth, except I tried to install the GTX 550 ti and that led to a corrupt file error, which the system runs a check disk and cycles the “preparing to repair” and “diagnosing PC” a few times and never allows me to enter SAFE MODE (shift+f8), to disable the NVIDIA driver that is buggy, and doesn’t allow for the NVIDIA Control Panel to install without losing video, and starts the repair cycles again… Leading to ANOTHER RE-INSTALL...
My question, for the Windows 8 Pro installation on the 970a-G46 mainboard and then after install is complete, which driver is the correct choice for the AHCI/SATA Controller? All I find is Win7 64-bit AHCI inf’s, and SB7XX 64-bit inf’s (no SB950 INF). The Driver disk which came with the mainboard is very dated pre Win 8 stuff, ASMEDIA X106 which are not recognized by the OS as written for Win 8. AMD’s latest drivers are the ones causing the IRQ type lags and corruption.
What version, build and type of Windows 8 installations have you used on this mainboard, and what drivers allowed you install it without the above conflicts? Your input may decrease my insanity… So, thank you in advance…

Quote from: m0r9h3u5 on 28-January-13, 12:11:16
I understand what you are telling me, only the generic drivers deliver subpar results. What is the point of running those drivers instead of windows 8 certified drivers written for said devices. My last install is functioning better, but still windows update fails every attempt, the apps i install (ie. weather bug) on the start screen wont load... to me windows 8 is a big fail....but that is just my view...
OK...I also own the 970a G46, and my upgrade experience from Win7 x64 AHCI to Win8 x64 AHCI was flawless the first time. No problems at all. You are running an AMD chipset board with a nVidia gpu, which means that your chipset drivers are not automatically updated with every gpu driver update you do--this would happen automatically if you owned an AMD gpu because AMD includes them in its gpu driver install packages. But--all you have to do to get the proper drivers for your motherboard is go here and download them. You only need the *chipset drivers* from this page--you do not need the RAID drivers, of course. That's it. It's no big deal, and back in the days when nVidia was making motherboard chipsets you had to separately download both the motherboard chipset drivers from nVidia and the AMD gpu drivers from AMD if you did not also own a nVidia gpu.
From your description of your problems it sounds like your installation of Win8 is hosed and you need to format C:\ and clean install from scratch, anyway, so...
A note about AHCI--the *ideal* way to install the AHCI drivers is prior to installing your OS for the first time, you enter the UEFI and set "AHCI" in the appropriate place, instead of IDE, and *then* you reboot from DVD and install your OS which will automatically install the correct AHCI driver from Windows. After the driver installation is complete you should then install the updated 970a drivers from AMD as linked above.
However, it is actually very easy to activate and install AHCI *after* you have installed Windows in normal IDE mode:
To enable AHCI in existing Windows 8 IDE Installation's
Caution: Do NOT enable AHCI in UEFI prior to making the following changes in your Registry! If you had AHCI enabled alreadyin UEFI, disable it first and restart your computer!
Use WinKey + R and type Regedit in the command line and hit the Enter key, this will open the Registration Editor.
Go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/services/iaStorV
right click on Start, select Modify and set Data Value to 0
Close Registration Editor and restart computer.
While booting, open the UEFI Page and set the SATA Mode to AHCI from IDE
Save UEFI settings and restart.
Windows will now install the AHCI drivers automatically and they should work without issues.
In order to avoid installation problems just like you have been experiencing, here is what I would do in your shoes:
1) Set UEFI for normal IDE drive mode
2) Reboot into IDE mode and install your OS
3) After you have finished with the installation, you should be having no troubles in IDE mode. Then go to the instructions above on how to properly enable AHCI *after* you have installed Windows 8 in normal IDE mode.
4) After everything is coming up roses in AHCI mode and you are having no problems, then install the AMD chipset drivers as linked above and you are golden.
Those 4 steps worked perfectly for me the first time (the first time I got them right, that is...).
There's nothing wrong with Win8--this is strictly operator error caused by insufficient research into what AHCI is and how to properly enable it. The Internet has some bad info on Win8 registry settings for AHCI because of the developer preview and the consumer preview versions of Win8 that Microsoft released to the public prior to the final shipping build--many "instructions" for Win8 are therefore not valid for the shipping version of Win8. At first I made some of the same goofs that you did, but now you get to benefit from my hard-won experience... Good luck! Should work like a charm. And, registry AHCI is done differently in Win8 than it is done in Win7 or Vista. Also, the registry settings relative to AHCI in Windows 8 for AMD are different from the registry values that must be changed for an Intel controller.
Parenthetically, My FX-6300 (Vishera) will be here in a couple of days! Yeah!

970A-G46 issue (no display, post)

Hi everyone,
Today after work I gutted my existing system, as I purchased a new Coolermaster HAF932. Had a darkfleet case and wanted more room. Also had a new H100i CPU cooler from last blackfriday so I decided to install that, replacing a zalman cooler. Everything else remained the same.
Reused parts
- AMD 8150 8 core
- MSI 970A G46
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- MSI 7950
- 750w TX Corsair psu
- 120g SSD Kingman
- 240g SSD Seagate
- 1x750g 1x650g WD black
New parts
- Coolermaster HAF932 case
- Corsair H100i CPU cooler
The problem Is after finishing the rebuild, i cant get the system to post. No video, display, nada. Everything does power up. I have tried moving the ram stick around in different slots. Removed the battery on mobo,, waited a few minutes to reset bio. I just now gutted everything from the new case, and setup bare minimum on cardboard. Same results, no change. Everything worked fine, and there were no issues when removing the old cooler to affect the CPU. I am going to pull that and basically start over again...All i did before rebuilding earlier was blow out the PSU and gpu with a portavac(?), and wipe off parts with a dry microfiber.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears. Also, yes the 8pin, 24pin, and dual 6pin+2 for gpu are seated down.
Thanks.

Quote from: imperialyap on 22-September-14, 00:48:06
Haven't tried with the old cooler, but it was a nightmare to get off aka removing retention brackets to get off. Only difference tho besides connecting to the CPU fan header, is the h100i has a USB, and takes up 1 USB header as well. Verified all connections, headers. I rebuilt it back into the case again last night, went over everything to ensure connections and sealed down.....and.. no luck, same issue.
Gonna order a MSI 970 gaming or 990fx board tonight... and hope for the best.
I once had a system years ago to display the same symptoms--I thought I'd fried something... Just as I was about to flog myself I decided instead to re-seat everything--and it turned out I had somehow (never did figure it out) put the cpu heatsink/cooler on the wrong way... Yes, it "snapped into place," but it was still the wrong orientation. Was very pleased to discover that upon correction, my system powered up without a hitch. These motherboard designs are much more robust that people might be tempted to think--and the UL ratings along with other electrical standards pretty much mean that if you inadvertently short something via an improper connection the safeties kick in and simply prevent the boot which prevents any permanent damage from taking place. Sounds like there's simply a connection short somewhere that is preventing the boot--hope so, anyway!
I might advise booting it with a spare cpu with maybe stock aircooling just to make sure that the board is still functioning optimally. Once you determine the board itself is fine then you can zero in on the components (which have to be your cpu/ cooling.) Strip the system down, start simply, build & test component by component and you'll soon discover the problem. Good luck!
I have the G46-970a but use a 6-core FX cpu and stock cooling--pleased to report the board is robust and still humming like a top two years later. No major problems to report with it at all. I will say that I believe this board is not the best choice for the 8-core 125W+ FX cpus--*unless* you want to go with the new "E" version of the 8-core FX that's rated at a max 95W TDP (same TDP as my FX6300 which runs at ~4.5GHz on stock voltage & cooling.)

970A-G46 no beeps no video

I had 970A-G46 with FX-8320 with radeon HD 7870 working fine for several months.
One day while I was playing a game everything went dark and there was burned
electronics smell. After that computer wasn't responding on power up. I tested PSU (CX500M)
in another system and it was working fine. I RMA-ed the motherboard and just received
a replacement.
I put the system back toghether on a table with a small video card (I think it's radeon 5450).
Now when I power it up all 4 blue led lights on top of motherboard come up and cpu
fan is spinning. But I get no beeps (I have a small speaker plugged in into motherboard JFP2) and no video.
Things I tried:
disconnect everything other than ram cpu and videocard
re-seating everyting
trying different video card
moving ram into different slots (I tried 2+4, 1+3, 1+2, and now I have one stick in slot 1).
Clear CMOS (shorting jbat1 pins 2-3 while system was off).
removing battery for 15 min.
using a different PSU (antec TP-750C)
double checked that I have both 24pin and 8pin power connected
moving video card to a different pci-e slot.
Regardless of what I tried I have no beeps during boot and no video.
But system looks live - four blue leds on motherboard light up and cpu fan is spinning.
Does anybody have an advice ?
Can this have something to do with mismatch between FX 8320 and version of bios ?
Am I supposed to hear beeps during normal boot ? I read in one of the posts in this forum
that msi motherboards dont beep during boot anymore. Is this correct ?
-Alex

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Unfortunately I don't have another am3+ cpu/board to test.
I am trying to figure out what to do next.
I would buy another cpu if I knew for sure that the cpu is bad.
you can't be sure of this until is tested somewhere.
you need to swap parts to see what is working and what not.
you need a second PC or other parts that you can use in your PC
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From reading forums it looks like cpu failure is something very rare.
when electric accident was involded, everything is suspected and can be burn less than second.
so for this case wouln't be a surprice if the CPU is burned.
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I want to make sure that this isn't something like old bios version not supporting FX-8320.
you can't be sure of this since you don't know current mainboard BIOS version,
and don't have another CPU to try which is supported since initial BIOS version
to verify what is the board BIOS version and is it BIOS issue, or bad CPU problem

MSI 970A-G46 Video problem

Well hello there!
So I have this MSI 970A-G46 motherboard, with a HIS ATI Radeon HD 5450 Graphics card and a AMD FX4100 processor with 4GB of RAM (self-built PC).
I have been running this computer for about a year now without any problem.
About 2 days ago, the problem started. It wouldn't boot, it won't show anything. Just make a Beep noise. It makes a 1 long beep and 2 short beeps. So I went to many forums and found out that this message means there is a video error and it is not able to connect to the monitor to show any other information.
So I opened my system, just made sure everything is fixed tightly and nothing is loose (nothing was loose. I even maybe cleaned it up a bit), and then closed it. It booted up! Weird right? So I went along using it until today, my (Linux) OS just hung up. I had no clue what to do. So I powered it off, and restarted it. The same issue happened again! It would just give me those beeps and won't start up. This time, I took out my graphics card, cleaned it with a brush, and placed it back. Again it booted properly! Now again my PC is fine (in fact, I'm typing this from the very same PC itself).
I am sure this is going to happen again. I have no clue why is happening. So I thought you people might have a better idea.
So why exactly is this happening and how do I avoid it?
P.S. I'm sorry if I haven't provided enough information. Please let me know if you need to know anything else.

I think the video card is somehow broken, try other PCIE slot. If possible, test the card on other PC to narrow down the issue range.

Intermittent issues with video output initialization

Hi Guys,
I have received a new (i5, 15') Mac-book Pro more than 9 months ago. About 6 months ago it started having some serious intermittent issues with video output. Those issues are numerous and different every time, but all seems to lead to GPU problem. In chronological order:
1)Started showing static colors as flickering and white color as blue.
2)Blue screens in bootcamp and hangs in mac os
3)Startup problems (fail to start)
4)Startup problems resolved with firmware patch, but video fails to initialize during startups:shows black on mac os, and distorted green during bootcamp.
So right now I am stuck with #4. The main issue is that it is intermittent - sometimes it starts to happen and sometimes it does not. Is there any way I can make apple replace the unit or the video-card? I did bring it to a apple certified service center, but they did not give any crap, even when I was able to demonstrate it to 2 people in there and gave me back the unit after failing to reproduce the problem on their own. I have all those problems in video and photos, but I don't see anywhere I could send them besides this forum.
Some of the evidence (I have much more):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsTYnUFCX1I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK85Hi9gx24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRH3DpN7qB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMXo8qF6S_k
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"I have received a new (i5, 15') Mac-book Pro more than 9 months ago."
You are still under warranty. *Call AppleCare*
"Is there any way I can make apple replace the unit or the video-card? I did bring it to a apple certified service center, but they did not give any crap"
No you cannot make Apple do anything. What you can do is call _Apple Customer Relations_ in your country. You can call AppleCare & ask politely & firmly to be transferred over to Customer Relations if there is no direct phone number like there is in the US. Relay to them what you stated in this post. See what they can do for you.
You posted in the wrong MBP area (Original). I have requested that a HOST move your post to the proper forum MacBook Pro (2008 and Later). There will be no need for you to repost.

Am I Lame? Video Output Device issues

It's been a while since we've used Final Cut Express, so we're a little rusty. A lot of it is working fine, but for some reason, it cannot connect to the video output device. I even tried reinstalling final cut express with the camera turned on and plugged into the firewire (I read that somewhere), but it made no difference. I searched these forums and found no reference to "video output device" or "cannot connect". So, any help for me out there?
The stats are - Final Cut Express 4, brand new mini DV camera (becoming obsolete, I know), firewire from the Mac to the camera and video out to the TV. FYI - the camera to the TV is fine...and the camera IS set to "play" mode, as opposed to "record" mode.
The error message mentions that it could either be an issue with the camera connection, OR it might be a conflict with the audio input device. Not sure why that would be, but if anyone has any ideas on how to investigate that further, that might be helpful. We do run Logic 8 and have an Echo soundcard installed with 2 1/4 inputs and 2 1/4 inch outputs. (in case anyone cares).
One last thing - I know I'm theoretically not running a good enough processor, but I don't think that's the issue. Logic 8 has the same requirements and runs great, and FCPExpress doesn't seem to be having any issues in terms of processing power.
Thanks again.
Kat

Yes, I did have that selected...thanks, though. Now, my audio has suddenly stopped working. No idea why. I have tried restarting the program a couple of times (which helped before, when the audio quit working). But now, that's not helping either. I don't know what heppened - All I did before the audio stopped working, was I shut down the computer and the camera and unplugged it all and replugged it and restarted. I did that to try to help the video playthrough problem (which it didn't help) and now I have no audio. ****, this is frustrating. Sigh.
Just FYI - we decided to unplug the camera from the system, since we couldn't get the video to play through to the TV anyhow. When we did that, the audio started working (just on the computer). I guess the playthrough issue was affecting the audio as well. Sigh. Any help is much appreciated.
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Enabling analog output sound on MSI 970A-G46 motherboard

Please tell me how to enable analogue output on my MSI 970A-G46 motherboard (via Realtek integrated audio card). I installed the drivers, but I only have Realtek Digital Output and Realtek Digital Output (Optical) available. The analogue output (Realtek High Definition Audio) returns "Not plugged in" error. How can I enable this output ? What exactly shall I plug in ? Everything is plugged in. I think it may have something to do with the JAUD1 connector, but I'm not sure. On old AC'97, it used to be 2 jumpers that needed to short some pins, but I don't know if this is the case with the new Realtek HD anymore (who has a different connector). Thanks.

Try the appropriate drivers from this page:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
I would first uninstall your present Realtek sound drivers, then reinstall the driver from the above page link. You have to check the box that says "I accept to the above" (yes, poor English...), then hit the "Next" button and the driver page loads.
They work fine.

970a-g46 no video output issues!!!

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