GPU not working or being detected

Devon_20

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Oct 16, 2016
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hi, i recently bought a radeon 7970 however it does not appear on device manager or in the bios and there is no display coming from it , ive updated the bios and AMD drivers but still nothing. Can anyone help?
 
Solution
What is the rest of your system specs?

You may need to go into BIOS and manually set it to use dedicated graphics first.

Did you have a different GPU in your computer before this?

Devon_20

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Oct 16, 2016
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no a gpu has not been used on this motherboard before, i do still have my old one which i intend to try tomorrow.

Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 4570 @ 3.20GHz
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3
Motherboard
ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0
Graphics
Intel HD Graphics 4600 (ASRock)
Storage
1863GB Western Digital (SATA)
223GB KINGSTON (SSD)
corsair cx500 psu