Replaced CPU now GPU shows black screen

TurdBurglar_75

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Apr 17, 2012
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Hello,

I just recently received my computer from shipment after moving. I bought an I7-4790k a couple of weeks ago in order to drop it into the computer once I received it. I received it today, I immediately opened (mistake), and removed the former i5-4460 cpu and placed the I7-4790k in it's place. Sealed it all up, and went to plug it into the "DVI" monitor. Everything inside powered on, except monitor was black with "no input message" not even a display of the bios start up. I started trouble shooting, used a VGA from my laptop to monitor to ensure the monitor at least works. It does, I than removed my GPU and plugged the VGA into my on-board graphics and it works. I placed the GPU back into the computer and left the VGA plugged into the on-board graphics card and the monitor remains black. I'm nearly out of idea's here.

TL:DR No input showing on monitor when GPU is plugged in, only get a display when GPU is removed and onboard graphics care used.

Specs:
MOBO:GA-B85M-Gaming 3 (rev. 1.0) 2014 BIOS (more recent avail, but will it change anything?)
GPU: Vapor-X R9 280X 3G D5 (http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=33D28E48-DBA2-40E7-A9F4-D8265AD5B38D&lang=eng)
CPU: Either i5-4460 or I7-4790k neither seem to make a difference.

Edit: Played in BIOS and set up onboard graphics as primary boot graphics. Restarted computer with GPU plugged in, windows started up but crashed with blue screen "system service exception". I was going to attempt to at least see if the computer recognizes the R9, in order to disable or uninstall it's drivers and attempt to re-install the drivers. But unfortunately it will not even let me into the normal windows start.
 

TurdBurglar_75

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Apr 17, 2012
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I have updated the BIOS and reset to defaults. I uninstalled all drivers for the R9, only upon uninstalling the drivers and having bios boot off of integrated graphics can I get the computer to boot into windows. I'm currently trying to update the drivers and attempt to set bios to boot off the GPU. I was able to update the GPU's but unfortunately they show up on device manager as a radeon 200 series, with an explanation mark next to it. When I click to see what it means, it says "this device isn't using any resources because it has a problem", I went to check to see if any voltage was coming out of the card and no card appeared on the CPUID program. I'm starting to feel this is a total loss of the card, and possibly the PCI express socket. I will have to prove to the movers that they broke this GPU as it was working 1 day prior to shipping. Unfortunately i feel this will be impossible to prove as their is no actual damage to the card as it's still spooling up and running.