I recently bought a new tower with intel onboard graphics. The tower only has a 300 w power supply, so I purchased a gt620 pcie video card. I set my bios to pcie priority, shut down, I stalled the new card and restarted. The fan turned on, but my monitor was not receiving a signal from the new card's output. I reseated the card several times and also unplugged and re plugged the hdmi cable several times. Not sure what did it, but my monitor finally came alive and I was able to install drivers and everything worked fine. Problem is that every time the computer would enter sleep mode and I would wake it up, the monitor would be dead again. I would unplug the the hdmi cable and then re plug and the monitor would come alive again. I thought it was the card, so I returned it for another gt620 of a different brand. The same thing happened as before. It took about 15 minutes of reseating and messing with the hdmi cable before the monitor would come alive. Additionally, I had the same black screen problem every time the computer would enter sleep mode and then awake.
Today, I pulled the card out to experiment, but this time I cannot get my monitor to light up at all. I did the usual reseating and what not, but my monitor is getting no signal. I even tried using a different hdmi cable and the VGA output, with still no signal to my monitor.
Could this be a pcie slot issue? I don't believe it's the card since I've used two with the same result. I'm running windows 8, btw.
Thanks in advance for reading my long question.
Today, I pulled the card out to experiment, but this time I cannot get my monitor to light up at all. I did the usual reseating and what not, but my monitor is getting no signal. I even tried using a different hdmi cable and the VGA output, with still no signal to my monitor.
Could this be a pcie slot issue? I don't believe it's the card since I've used two with the same result. I'm running windows 8, btw.
Thanks in advance for reading my long question.
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