I have a Gigabyte 970a up3p, fx 6300, 212 evo, r9 270, and a evga 500watt power supply that has been tested and works. My computer will turn on and the case fans will spin the my gpu sits there and does nothing. I tried my brothers gt 430 and this time the gpu fan spun but nothing on the screen. Please help, I have the worst luck with computers!!!
GPU fans dont spin and screen wont turn on!
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plasmastorm
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Silly question but you did put spacers in the case when you fitted the motherboard right?
Often if someone comes into my shop and says fans spin but nothing else happens they have bolted the motherboard directly to the case which means the whole rig is live.
Often if someone comes into my shop and says fans spin but nothing else happens they have bolted the motherboard directly to the case which means the whole rig is live.
neo_classical
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Hey,
I'll start with a simple question too. I only ask it because the first time I installed a graphics card, I made this mistake.
Have you plugged a 6-pin PCIe power cable into your card? The 430 doesn't need one, hence why the fans will spin, but the r9-270 does. Without it, you'll get nothing.
How are you connecting your computer to your monitor? Have you tried different leads to make sure it's not the lead that's damaged? Also, have you tried different options - maybe you're trying VGA and you should try DVI or HDMI or Display port?
NC
I'll start with a simple question too. I only ask it because the first time I installed a graphics card, I made this mistake.
Have you plugged a 6-pin PCIe power cable into your card? The 430 doesn't need one, hence why the fans will spin, but the r9-270 does. Without it, you'll get nothing.
How are you connecting your computer to your monitor? Have you tried different leads to make sure it's not the lead that's damaged? Also, have you tried different options - maybe you're trying VGA and you should try DVI or HDMI or Display port?
NC
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Hi again,
Well we can eliminate cables and GPU being a problem then. Have you tried plugging your monitor into your motherboards graphics port - either VGA, DVI or HDMI. If that doesn't work, then we can narrow it down to it being a CPU, motherboard or RAM problem.
To test whether it's a RAM problem, remove one stick of RAM from your computer, try and boot up. Maybe it will display - in which case you know it's the stick you've removed. If not, do the other one.
If that doesn't work, then you're looking at a motherboard/CPU problem in which case, it's time to look into your warranty I'm afraid
Wish I could help more, but that's now the only thing I can think of if you exhaust the suggestions above.
Well we can eliminate cables and GPU being a problem then. Have you tried plugging your monitor into your motherboards graphics port - either VGA, DVI or HDMI. If that doesn't work, then we can narrow it down to it being a CPU, motherboard or RAM problem.
To test whether it's a RAM problem, remove one stick of RAM from your computer, try and boot up. Maybe it will display - in which case you know it's the stick you've removed. If not, do the other one.
If that doesn't work, then you're looking at a motherboard/CPU problem in which case, it's time to look into your warranty I'm afraid
Wish I could help more, but that's now the only thing I can think of if you exhaust the suggestions above.
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You can't really - unless you have a spare motherboard that has the same chipset as yours... Or vice versa, if you have a spare CPU around, you can put that in the drive and see if it displays then.
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