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Just finished building a new killer system. When I turned it on the first time I get no video signal to the monitor. ie No BIOS display or anything. Orange LED on monitor tells me it's getting no active signal.
This may sound like a stupid question but I have built 100's of new systems, just not recently. I put 2 new Sapphire HD 6970 2Gb DDR5 video cards in this system. Each card has 2 DVI ports, 2 mini Display Ports and an HDMI port. The monitor I'm using just to test is an older VGA Dell monitor but I'm using the VGA to DVI adapter that came with one of the video cards so I assume the monitor does not have to be a DVI monitor. My question is, with 4 DVI ports, which one will the system try to boot from?
I have tried powering everything down and moving from one DVI port to the next but none of the 4 give me any video. I hear a POST beep, all fans power up, all LEDs on the Mobo are on that should be on. Just no signal getting to the monitor. I'm pretty confident everything was installed correctly and has power. As I said, I've done this many, many times and I'm a stickler for details and reading manuals first.
Here's the rest of the system in case it helps...
Asus P8Z68-V Pro Gen 3 Motherboard (with PCI-e 3.0 slots / backwards compatible)
(the 2 Sapphire cards are in slots 2 and 5)
4x 8Gb PC-1600 GSkill Ripjaws DIMMs (32Gb total RAM)
OCZ Vertex 3 120Gb SSD (SATA III 6Gb/sec)
2x Seagate Barracuda 2Tb SATA III Hard Drives
Rosewill Thor V2 Full Tower Case
Intel Core i7 Processor 3.4/3.8GHz
Asus 24x DVD-RW SATA
All drives have power and data cables connected at both ends.
Video cards both have PCI-e Power connectors connected from the Corsair 850w PSU and Power LED's on both video cards come on.
Crossfire bridge cable is connected between both cards, although it looks like there are 2 bridge connectors. I used the one near the bracket end of each card. I could try taking that bridge cable off. I found nothing in the documentation about which connectors to use or if I'm supposed to use both or none at first.
Oh, almost forgot. The Mobo has a VGA and DVI connector too but I don't see anything in the Mobo manual about onboard video. Besides, I tried both of those ports too and get the same thing. No video signal.
I've never run a dual video Crossfire system like this before and can't find anything in the manuals about setting it up, which port to use to boot from, etc.
Just finished building a new killer system. When I turned it on the first time I get no video signal to the monitor. ie No BIOS display or anything. Orange LED on monitor tells me it's getting no active signal.
This may sound like a stupid question but I have built 100's of new systems, just not recently. I put 2 new Sapphire HD 6970 2Gb DDR5 video cards in this system. Each card has 2 DVI ports, 2 mini Display Ports and an HDMI port. The monitor I'm using just to test is an older VGA Dell monitor but I'm using the VGA to DVI adapter that came with one of the video cards so I assume the monitor does not have to be a DVI monitor. My question is, with 4 DVI ports, which one will the system try to boot from?
I have tried powering everything down and moving from one DVI port to the next but none of the 4 give me any video. I hear a POST beep, all fans power up, all LEDs on the Mobo are on that should be on. Just no signal getting to the monitor. I'm pretty confident everything was installed correctly and has power. As I said, I've done this many, many times and I'm a stickler for details and reading manuals first.
Here's the rest of the system in case it helps...
Asus P8Z68-V Pro Gen 3 Motherboard (with PCI-e 3.0 slots / backwards compatible)
(the 2 Sapphire cards are in slots 2 and 5)
4x 8Gb PC-1600 GSkill Ripjaws DIMMs (32Gb total RAM)
OCZ Vertex 3 120Gb SSD (SATA III 6Gb/sec)
2x Seagate Barracuda 2Tb SATA III Hard Drives
Rosewill Thor V2 Full Tower Case
Intel Core i7 Processor 3.4/3.8GHz
Asus 24x DVD-RW SATA
All drives have power and data cables connected at both ends.
Video cards both have PCI-e Power connectors connected from the Corsair 850w PSU and Power LED's on both video cards come on.
Crossfire bridge cable is connected between both cards, although it looks like there are 2 bridge connectors. I used the one near the bracket end of each card. I could try taking that bridge cable off. I found nothing in the documentation about which connectors to use or if I'm supposed to use both or none at first.
Oh, almost forgot. The Mobo has a VGA and DVI connector too but I don't see anything in the Mobo manual about onboard video. Besides, I tried both of those ports too and get the same thing. No video signal.
I've never run a dual video Crossfire system like this before and can't find anything in the manuals about setting it up, which port to use to boot from, etc.