- Oct 13, 2014
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My brother got a graphics card for his PC (He has never had a graphics card in the PC he has) and is just getting into PC gaming. He bought an AMD Radeon R9 270X. http://i.imgur.com/4zGlm9s.jpg
His computer specs are:
Windows 7 64
Asus Motherboard P8H61-M LE/CSM Rev x.0x
3.10 gigahertz Intel Core i5-2400
1TB HDD
4gb RAM
550w PSU
Now I am not a computer master and neither is my brother, but I have friends that are and the have worked tirelessly on this thing to no avail. Once we plugged the card in we were unable to get any video from but if we plugged directly into the mobo we got video. I cannot locate the GPU on the device manager. BUT we have verified the card works by putting it into another system. But when it's in my brothers system we get nothing, only the fans spin on the GPU.
Then I took it to a friends. He tried disabling the onboard graphics in the bios and making the primary video the PCI-E but for some reason the changes did not save. Every other change made in bios is saved EXCEPT making the PCI-E slot the primary graphics source. Then we discovered that we absolutely could not get drivers to install for the card. We would download them, but the computer would not accept them and simply nothing happened when we tried to install. We tried disabling the on board video drivers, still nothing. I am really at a loss of what to do next. I feel if we were able to actually install the drivers this would work. But I'm feeling at this point the motherboard is a big pile of s*** and it needs to be replaced. I don't know what to do next, I've spent hours and hours trying to figure this out and we are still at square one.
The only thing my buddy didn't to yet is flash the motherboard. I guess that resets everything? Not sure, like I said I am not a computer master.
TL;DR - We can't get the PC to recognize there is a GPU installed and we can't get it to stop using the onboard graphics and the proper drivers will not install for some reason.
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
His computer specs are:
Windows 7 64
Asus Motherboard P8H61-M LE/CSM Rev x.0x
3.10 gigahertz Intel Core i5-2400
1TB HDD
4gb RAM
550w PSU
Now I am not a computer master and neither is my brother, but I have friends that are and the have worked tirelessly on this thing to no avail. Once we plugged the card in we were unable to get any video from but if we plugged directly into the mobo we got video. I cannot locate the GPU on the device manager. BUT we have verified the card works by putting it into another system. But when it's in my brothers system we get nothing, only the fans spin on the GPU.
Then I took it to a friends. He tried disabling the onboard graphics in the bios and making the primary video the PCI-E but for some reason the changes did not save. Every other change made in bios is saved EXCEPT making the PCI-E slot the primary graphics source. Then we discovered that we absolutely could not get drivers to install for the card. We would download them, but the computer would not accept them and simply nothing happened when we tried to install. We tried disabling the on board video drivers, still nothing. I am really at a loss of what to do next. I feel if we were able to actually install the drivers this would work. But I'm feeling at this point the motherboard is a big pile of s*** and it needs to be replaced. I don't know what to do next, I've spent hours and hours trying to figure this out and we are still at square one.
The only thing my buddy didn't to yet is flash the motherboard. I guess that resets everything? Not sure, like I said I am not a computer master.
TL;DR - We can't get the PC to recognize there is a GPU installed and we can't get it to stop using the onboard graphics and the proper drivers will not install for some reason.
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
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