Please help.
I bought a new Gigabyte hd 7970 to put into my HP elite pavilion 1050 computer. (Windows 8)
When it arrived I realized it was not getting power and through google figured out that my power supply (460) was probably not enough because the card demanded at least 500.
So I ordered myself a Corsair tx650.
When the new power supply arrived I put it and the card in and the card powered up with fans at the full but I did not get any video signal.
After trying multiple different things over the next couple of days I began to assume that the card was defective and exchanged it to amazon for a new one.
This morning I installed the card and still no video signal.
I have tried a few random tips I have found with google like uninstalling the old drivers for my 6850 but that doesn't help.
The old card still works fine and I do not know what to do.
I have also tried going into "BIOS" (I think but this kind of stuff is going way past my knowledge on the subject) and changed the integrated video to "disable" and then reinstalled the card but this did nothing as well.
Not only do I get no signal at all when I install the card (but I do get full power) but I do not think the computer is powering on fully with the new card because when I turn the power off the computer instantly shuts down.
At one time I found something on google about someone who "flashed" their bios and fixed a similar issue but not only can I not find that information again I do not know much about "bios" and flashing it and I am afraid to try such a thing (Esp if it is unrelated to my issue) because I might mess something up.
If anyone can help a do it yourself computer layman out I would really appreciated it.
Dwayne
I bought a new Gigabyte hd 7970 to put into my HP elite pavilion 1050 computer. (Windows 8)
When it arrived I realized it was not getting power and through google figured out that my power supply (460) was probably not enough because the card demanded at least 500.
So I ordered myself a Corsair tx650.
When the new power supply arrived I put it and the card in and the card powered up with fans at the full but I did not get any video signal.
After trying multiple different things over the next couple of days I began to assume that the card was defective and exchanged it to amazon for a new one.
This morning I installed the card and still no video signal.
I have tried a few random tips I have found with google like uninstalling the old drivers for my 6850 but that doesn't help.
The old card still works fine and I do not know what to do.
I have also tried going into "BIOS" (I think but this kind of stuff is going way past my knowledge on the subject) and changed the integrated video to "disable" and then reinstalled the card but this did nothing as well.
Not only do I get no signal at all when I install the card (but I do get full power) but I do not think the computer is powering on fully with the new card because when I turn the power off the computer instantly shuts down.
At one time I found something on google about someone who "flashed" their bios and fixed a similar issue but not only can I not find that information again I do not know much about "bios" and flashing it and I am afraid to try such a thing (Esp if it is unrelated to my issue) because I might mess something up.
If anyone can help a do it yourself computer layman out I would really appreciated it.
Dwayne