ATi 5870 - No signal Output!

[Farina]

Get my new system delivered today from OcUK and power it up and everything seems great apart from no signal reaching my monitor!! Everything "appears" to power up as it should there is simply no output to the monitor. I have re-seated the card and the RAM but no change. Finally stick in my current ATi 4850 and everything works perfectly.


Have i missed anything obvious before i get onto OcUK and chew their faces off for not testing this rig before they sent it??

 

[hideki]

any leds on the card lit up after boot?
is the fan spinning on the card?
monitor connected to correct video output?
all power connections pluuged into card?

 

[danoliver1]

This seems like a common problem with these new 5000 series cards, do you have an older motherboard by any chance?

 

[Calabi]

Sounds like not enough power.

Either the graphics card isnt connected or the psu isnt able to provide enough voltage.

 

[RumbleBee]

Had a similar problem when I got my GTX280 last year. Discovered I could get an output using a VGA adaptor. Had me confused as hell, till I discovered one bent pin on my DVI cable. Using a screw driver I Was able to straighten it back up and all working fine.

Assuming are using the same cables for both cards this won't be the problem, but if you have a VGA cable see if this makes any difference.

Another problem I had was that the Power connection splitter that came with the card was duff. I borrowed a friends and it worked perfect. Too make things more confusing my 'apparently' broken splitter worked in his machine. Definitely not an installation issue as I fiddled with this thing for days.

 

[Farina]

It's this system http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-030-OE (Titan Goliath). The card powers up, fan spins etc just don't get any response from my monitor. Also tried using the HDMI output to my main tele with same result and tried both DVI outputs to my monitor.

Can't see it being a PSU issue as it's an OcUK complete build.

 

[Hotwired]

Funny that, happened with my 4890, changing to a separate power cable for the card seemed to fix it. Didn't like sharing with two fans.

 

[danoliver1]

Try moving the card to the other pcie slot, this worked for my dads.

 

[loki1975]

Have you tried loweing the number of channels used from 16 to 8 or even 4?

 

[Jay85]

Sorry for bumping old threads but did you ever get this sorted? I'm having the same issues right now.