I have a radeon r9 290 graphics card and i hooked it up do i have to use the dvi or hdmi it has or could i stick to my motherb

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I had them plugged in i had a 6+2 pin and a 6 connected but when i turned my pc on it beeped 6 times which i looked up what that meant and that meant and it was the graphics card so i took the 2 pin out of the 6+2 so in the 8 pin was a six pin and it worked fine
 
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My graphics cards fans are spinning just fine and and looks like its working and when i plugged in the pins for it i put a six pin in the pin slot and i put another six pin in the eight pin slot is this safe to do and another question if it is after i did that i used the motherboards outputs so should i not use that or will my graphics card be work the same as if i put a dvi in the graphics card output

You need both the 6 pin and the 8 pin, or the card will not fully power on.

If you have the display connected to the motherboard, it will use the iGPU for rendering, and won't be using your nice fast GPU.

Stuff in the POST problems sticky may be useful: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems