Graphics Card Wont Power

mossymo

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Hello everyone, I'm at my wits end on this and was hoping for some help from you seeing as people say you're the best.

I recently built my computer, and my graphics card won't power. What I mean by this, is that I get power to everything else, CPU, fans, HDDs, and ODD, but not to the graphics card. The fans on the card just twitch ever so slightly, and that's it.

I've tried the card in a friend's computer and I know it works, though for some reason it won't in my build.

Here's what I got:
CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X 4GB Video Card
Case: DIYPC Alpha-GT3 ATX Test Bench Case
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply


Thank you for reading, any help would be appreciated.


Quick edit: The card heats up, though I get no signal and, as stated above, the fans do not move. Could this be caused by a bad PCIe slot? I've tried the other ones on my motherboard and that doesn't seem to help any.
 

mossymo

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Is there any way to test this specifically? I don't have (immediate) access to another graphics card to throw onto my board to see if it spins up. Could the bad slot make my card heat up but keep the fans from spinning and outputting video?
 
The only way to be completely certain is to cross-test: put the card in a different mobo and a different card in your mobo. If the card works in one board it should work in any (working) board. I don't see why a card specifically couldn't behave as you describe though. In a computer, just about anything is possible!
 

mossymo

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I took a closer look at my board and found this under one of the capacitors right next to the CPU, could this be causing my board to malfunction?

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