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June 19, 2014 3:33:02 PM

I bought a new graphics card that came in the mail today, a radeon HD 7770. Upon installing it I noticed that my monitor has a VGA cable and the graphics card doesnt not have a VGA slot. My monitor was supposed to come with an HDMI cable but for whatever reason it wasn't there. Oh well, I will buy a VGA to HDMI adapter later.

My question is how do I know the graphics card is even working without plugging my monitor into it? I plugged my VGA into the onboard graphics slot and it booted normally and I can use the computer, and when I use AMD's auto-detect driver it says it didn't find anything. Does this mean my card is defective, or I installed it wrong? OR is it because I didn't plug in the monitor?

Please answer with haste, thank you.

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June 19, 2014 3:44:29 PM

Issues with windows not seeing graphics cards for the first time are common.
Often the easy fix is to get windows updates to search for a driver for it, then go to a.m.d.'s site and update it. You will unlikely get it recognized while it is not in use but it is worth a try.
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a b U Graphics card
June 19, 2014 3:45:06 PM

You will not know until you are able to plug it in. The drivers will install for a bad card just as it would for a good card. You are just going to have to be patient.

Sorry ):
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June 19, 2014 3:48:38 PM

Did the video card not come with one of these?

http://forum.videohelp.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=...

The high end ones might not as much. But that will allow you to convert a DVI-D to a VGA and you can use your monitor. otherwise go out and buy a HDMI/DVI Cable
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June 19, 2014 3:55:54 PM

This HDMI cable would probably be cheaper than buying an adapter:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Windows is detecting the on-board graphics card as your video adapter so it isn't going to update drivers for the other one.

Once you use the one you installed, you should be able to install the drivers. Theres a chance that you will need to tell the system BIOS which gpu to use.
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June 19, 2014 3:56:10 PM

drtweak said:
Did the video card not come with one of these?

http://forum.videohelp.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=...

The high end ones might not as much. But that will allow you to convert a DVI-D to a VGA and you can use your monitor. otherwise go out and buy a HDMI/DVI Cable


It did not come with that, I bought it refurbished so that's probably why.

Thank you all for the assistance. I will go buy an HDMI cable :) 
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June 19, 2014 3:58:09 PM

plexico said:
drtweak said:
Did the video card not come with one of these?

http://forum.videohelp.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=...

The high end ones might not as much. But that will allow you to convert a DVI-D to a VGA and you can use your monitor. otherwise go out and buy a HDMI/DVI Cable


It did not come with that, I bought it refurbished so that's probably why. Thanks for the assistance.


Oh you did say it was a new graphics card in your OP. Where did you buy it refurbished from?
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June 19, 2014 3:58:20 PM

itsVance said:
This HDMI cable would probably be cheaper than buying an adapter:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Windows is detecting the on-board graphics card as your video adapter so it isn't going to update drivers for the other one.

Once you use the one you installed, you should be able to install the drivers. Theres a chance that you will need to tell the system BIOS which gpu to use.


I mean... It didn't work that way when I setup my Bitcoin mining computer...
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June 19, 2014 4:01:28 PM

jkhoward said:
itsVance said:
This HDMI cable would probably be cheaper than buying an adapter:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Windows is detecting the on-board graphics card as your video adapter so it isn't going to update drivers for the other one.

Once you use the one you installed, you should be able to install the drivers. Theres a chance that you will need to tell the system BIOS which gpu to use.


I mean... It didn't work that way when I setup my Bitcoin mining computer...


Then your Bitcoin mining computer has a bios that didn't make you choose?
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June 19, 2014 4:08:41 PM

itsVance said:
plexico said:
drtweak said:
Did the video card not come with one of these?

http://forum.videohelp.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=...

The high end ones might not as much. But that will allow you to convert a DVI-D to a VGA and you can use your monitor. otherwise go out and buy a HDMI/DVI Cable


It did not come with that, I bought it refurbished so that's probably why. Thanks for the assistance.


Oh you did say it was a new graphics card in your OP. Where did you buy it refurbished from?

I bought it from NewEgg, I guess I called it new because it was my first time owning it :) .
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