New build, but no grapics card on MB and PCI card needs driver?

farabeck · Sep 17, 2017

Hi, I am trying to help my nephew build a new computer, but I am located in Hawaii and he is in Colorado so I can't troubleshoot myself. He got a Asus 970 Pro mother board and he has built the system up but there is no integrated graphics on this board. So he got a PCI (GEFORCE 210) graphics card and plugged it in. Since it's a new build, there is no way of getting the OS on there without a monitor...he can't even see a bios now. And the card I believe needs a driver, but obviously can't load that until he can see what he is doing.

He has it connected via a HDMI from the card to the monitor. I'm guessing the HDMI won't work...without the driver, but will either of the other ports (blue or white) work without a driver?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks!

mips42 · Sep 17, 2017

If all is working as it should, he would ONLY need a driver once the system boots into windows. BIOS and such SHOULD work fine with HDMI or DVI or whatever connection the monitor has until it gets to Windows. Even then, without a driver, the GPU SHOULD work in VGA mode (Low color, low resolution) until the driver is loaded. If he's not able to view BIOS, something else is going on.

farabeck · Sep 17, 2017

mips42 :

Thanks! I was guessing that might be it; I had never had a computer not POST and get into bios w/o a driver but wanted to makes sure...it's been a few years since I have built one or researched this stuff so thought I might be missing something. I will let him know and we'll walk through the connections to make sure he didn't miss something.

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