Display issue on newly built PC

davereid

davereid

davereid

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Hi,

I have just built my first PC and it works fine with the monitor plugged into the motherboard with the VGA and no graphics card. If I then put the graphics card in and try to link my monitor through it's hdmi and the graphics card hdmi, I keep getting an error saying "cable not connected" and just a black screen.

I am not sure what to do next?

Cheers

Dave
 
honosuseri said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ FARCRY3, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £155.99
1 x BenQ GW2250HM 22" Widescreen LED Professional Monitor - Black £99.98
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £83.99
1 x MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - FREE Alpenföhn Civetta Cooler!! £69.98
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) £54.98
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual CHannel Kit (PV38G213C1K) £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24B5ST SATA ReWriter - Black (Retail) £17.99
Total : £616.34 (includes shipping : £13.75).

I went this build that honosuseri recommended.

Thanks
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Have you given the 7850 its 6pin PCI-E power cable from the PSU?

Is the card in the top 16X slot?
 
Yeah the graphics card has its 6 pin connector. Is that the only one necessary - I can't see anymore but will just make sure!

I unfortunately don't have a DVI cable and there is no VGA slot on the card :(

Could it be driver related?

Thanks
 
Maybe try a BIOS update (see if theres anything newer at the MSI website as Gigabyte Z77-D3H boards have more often than not needed this done)
 
I have no OS installed on it at the moment, should I put one on there without the graphics card present and just use the mobo vga and then try to sort it from there?

Dave
 
It could be a faulty graphics card, i doubt it wold be driver related as you haven't even booted into windows yet. 2 things to check 1) when the pc is on do the fans on the card spin up and 2) are you sure the hdmi cable works. could also be a faulty hdmi port in the monitor
 
Right I have fixed it - was me being an idiot. I just had to change the monitors display over to HDMI -.-' so simple!

Thanks for all the help though :)

Dave
 
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