Custom Built PC Won't POST With Graphics Card Installed, But It Would When Graphics Card Removed

falcon_hren24

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This is my first time building a PC, so I am limited in my understanding of parts, hardware and software. I mainly used Google and my friends for help and solutions. I finished putting in the parts and the wiring, the folks at Micro Center checked it over and said that everything is plugged in correctly, but once I tried to boot it up and install the OS and other programs the display will not turn on. After researching, I removed the graphics card and the system booted up with no problem. I am not sure what the problem is. So far I have not installed OS or any problems without resolving this issue first. I do not believe it is a RAM or Motherboard issue. Is my MSi graphics card compatible with ASRock Z97?

My built is as follows:
ASRock Z97 PRO4 ATX LGA 1150 Motherboard

Intel Core i5 4670K 3.4GHz Socket LGA 1150 Boxed Processor

Samsung 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 120GB SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive

Toshiba 1TB 7,200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive DT01ACA100 - Bare Drive

Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) CL9 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit (Two 4GB Memory Modules)

MSI N770 TF 4GD5/OC NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Twin Frozr OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card

Corsair CX Series CX600M 600 Watt ATX Modular Power Supply

Corsair Carbide Series 200R Mid Tower ATX Computer Case


 
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so your pluggin the monitor into the video card right?

when you removed the GPU< you plugged the monitor into the onboard video on the motherboard and it worked.

if this is so... two begging messups usually occur.
1) did you plug the power supply into the video card? people often miss this, and you will get no video output if you do this.
2) in bios, if there's a setting for video output to be 'onboard', change that to 'pci-e slot'

lowriderflow

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so your pluggin the monitor into the video card right?

when you removed the GPU< you plugged the monitor into the onboard video on the motherboard and it worked.

if this is so... two begging messups usually occur.
1) did you plug the power supply into the video card? people often miss this, and you will get no video output if you do this.
2) in bios, if there's a setting for video output to be 'onboard', change that to 'pci-e slot'
 
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Verindae

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Well your PSU seems fine for the card and your Mobo definitely is, my advice for your first port of call is check the 2 6pin power cables are in properly, then disable the on board graphics or switch its mode to PCI-E first. See what happens then.
 

lowriderflow

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b.t.w.... no reason for the 4gb version of the 770.. unless you 're goin to SLI (which I presume not b/c the power supply is not enough)

if you ever got to the point of using more than 2gb vram, the 770 doesnt have enough power to sustain playable FPS anyway.

like watchdogs on ultra, would use 3gb of VRAM, but the 770 would only give you 30fps or so and thats not enough
 

falcon_hren24

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I have plugged in the power supply, the video output is PCI express. Monitor still states no signal.

And what do you mean by plugging the monitor to the video card? I have my monitor connected to the motherboard.
 


Does the system actually not turn on or just no display? If you have the card in but the video is connected to the onboard video, that may not get you a signal. Connect the cable to the card and try it if it turns on.

From the sound of things you are pretty new to building computers, make sure you have things hooked up right to the video card for power. That card looks to need an 8 pin and a 6 pin power connection, got them both in?
 

falcon_hren24

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Thanks guys. Noob mistake. I thought the monitor had to be connected to the motherboard. I simply plugged the monitor into the video card directly and it works like wonder. Thanks again.