Graphics card help

[wallofsound]

Hi all,

Just building my first computer for a very long time and have a 970. Turning on for the first time everything lights up but the monitor is not getting a signal. Tried both of these and neither worked
Using both hdmi and display ports
Moving the card to another PCI lane

The only thing that works is taking the graphics card out altogether?

I've not started to install windows as i am thinking it'd be better for it all to work before?!

Any ideas of what I can try?

 

[wallofsound]

Thanks for replying. There was a couple that I couldn't get to line up well so maybe that's it. Will be a nightmare to get everything out again - any other ideas before doing that?

 

[wallofsound]

There's no LED Readout on the motherboard (I don't think anyway!) and power is all plugged in correctly (there white light on the 970).

Yes Windows boots - well, the installation screen.

Thanks for your help thus far

 

[wallofsound]

Have tried switching on the monitor to both hdmi and display port. Do you think it's worth installing Windows (removing graphics card to do so) and then trying?

 

[wallofsound]

Yes, single display but has two inputs. I've tried them both

Have also just set up outside of the case and is still the same - onboard works fine but using the graphics card doesn't. See here for an image - all lit up but nothing to show https://www.dropbox.com/s/rlc58g78sl8gkbf/2015-12-30 21.31.35.jpg?dl=0

 

[wallofsound]

hmm i am confused, do you have a display signal ?

I have one from onboard (but only when the 970 Is completley removed) but nothing at all from the 970

 

[wallofsound]

if you got signal from onboard, then there is no shorts, did you try to disable onboard graphic in the bios, or a choice between onboard or pci-e, you can check the mobo's manual about it.

Have just tried this and no luck, and now that i've told it to do PCI graphics i cannot get any screen up now! is there a short cut or something to re-set the bios?

 

[wallofsound]

All sorted, thank you so much for all of your help!

Just another, probably really stupid question. I want to use display port so that I can take advantage of G-Sync (I've got a Dell S2716DG)... if I just try to plug it in nothing is detected even if I restart - I can only get signal via HDMI. Is there a setting to tell the it to pick up from displayport instead?

Thanks again.

 

[wallofsound]

TBH, i'm not exactly sure which solution worked in the end! Pretty sure that it was a BIOS setting but not 100% as was trying many things at once.

Sorry, but what do you mean by monitor menu layouts - do you mean on the monitor itself, I've tried that and no luck as of yet.