Onboard not working, Defect? or APU

mspencerl87

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To be more specific, i have bought
MB ASROCK|FM2A88X-ITX+ R Motherboard

And Athlon X4 750K

The onboard graphics is not working the northbridge chipset is X88A?

which has HDMI VGA ect on the board..

I plugged in to the VGA and boot, nothign on the display


My Question is:
Does the onboard not work unless paired with an APU chip? Shouldnt it work regaurdless the chip?

I had to add a discrete GFX card just to get to the bios and enable onboard which was disabled by default, nevertheless onboard still does not work

Any ideas?
 

mspencerl87

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So, this northbridge does not have onboard graphics? The onboard would be an APU/CPU?
This is all very new to me, used to always doing discrete solution, but needed a small form factor build for ESXI

Thanks for post