I need your help

[brandynamite]

Hello,

I need some help.

I have recently built my first rig and didn't bother to put in a sound card (ASUS Xonar DX) until today. After shutting my comp down, I inserted the card and plugged in the power cord.

When I turned my comp back on, my monitor, which was working fine before, was not displaying anything. I had a single monitor plugged in through my EVGA GTX 480.

I'm not sure what's going on here. I plugged my monitor into the mb's vga and it's working normally. My 480 isn't even a week old, so, I don't know why it wouldn't be working. The fan is also running the 480.

Any suggestions?

 

[xtreme5]

mention your specs?
Also have you updated the bios version?

 

[brandynamite]

mention your specs?
Also have you updated the bios version?

mb: Asus P8Z 68-V LX
cpu: Intel i7 2600k
2 ddr3 4gb
graphics: EVGA GTX 480
psu: Corsair HX850

What do you mean update the bios version? I apologize lol

 

[brandynamite]

Hi there Brandynamite.

Could you take a picture of inside your chassis for me?

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/826/img0987hj.jpg/

 

[brandynamite]

Which slot are you trying the sound card in, the bottom one?

http://techreport.com/r.x/asus-xonar-dx/card.jpg

I put the card on top of it. Is that a nono..?

 

[brandynamite]

I would try it in the bottom PCI slot.

The problem is more with my graphics card though. It won't display my monitor even with the sound card out. It was working before I tried to put the sc in.

 

[brandynamite]

I would try it in the bottom PCI slot.

This is what is underneath my graphics card


http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/6119/img0990wt.jpg

 

[brandynamite]

http://lian-li.com/v2/tw/product/upload/image/pss/psu pcie 6 2pin.jpg

That's all plugged in lol. The card's fan is running and it is warm.

 

[brandynamite]

Is your on board graphics turned off in the bios?
If not... go turn it off.

And you have attatched your monitor to the outputs on the GTX 480 it's self?

I'll turn off the on board graphics but it was running fine without me having to do that before, and yes I had the monitor plugged directly into the 480

 

[brandynamite]

Return with info on what happens

Wow, so... When I turned my pc off to go into bios I had 53 updates for Windows. So i plugged my monitor into my 480 and it's working like nothing was wrong.. I didn't even have to go into bios to turn off the board graphics; which by the way should I still turn it off?

 

[brandynamite]

I would, it should stop any kind of interference from the on board GPU.

Will do then. I appreciate your time, thank you!

 

[brandynamite]

I would, it should stop any kind of interference from the on board GPU.

Oh and is the sound card supposed to be in that little slot on top of my 480?