Blank monitor with graphics card in, fine without graphics card in.

mattheuu

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Hey guys,

I am in the process of building my first Pc. When I turn it on fully assembled I get the single POST beep. However, i get no response from the monitor.

I went through the breadboard steps and everything seems to be working fine. When i remove the graphics card I am able to enter the bios. With the graphcs card removed I am in the process of installing windows now.

The monitor has either a blue tipped cable or a hdmi cable for connections.

So the questions are:

1: Is the reason that I am having trouble with the screen because I have the monitor plugged into the mobo instead of the graphics card?

2: is my graphics card not working correctly?

3: Do i need to by an adapter so that i can plug the blue tipped monitor cable into the white tipped graphics card socket?


parts list:

CPU: core i5 2500k
MOBO: asus P8z68v-3gen
RAM: Corsair Vengeance CML8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
HSF: Coolermaster COOLER MASTER HYPER 212 EVO UNIVERSAL
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB ST31000524AS
PSU: Silverstone Strider Plus 750W ST75F-P
DVD: Sony AD7280SGB DVDRW OEM
CASE: Lian Li Lancool First Knight USB 3.0 PC-K9 Black



*****GPU: ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II Overclocked 1GB http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=16652


*****Monitor: Viewsonic VX2453MH-LED 23.6in LED Monitor http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=17718


Thanks for reading :)

 
swiftly_Morgan is correct. When you plug in a dedicated GPU it takes priority and overrides the motherboard video. however I see you confusion since none of your monitor plugs fit the card. In the box with the GPU there should be a DVI to VGA (white to blue) adapter and a mini HDMI to HDMI adapter. They are probably under the cardboard the GPU was sitting on in the box. You'll probably want to use the HDMI as its digital.