Help! Not getting any graphics signal

Marquez93

Marquez93

Marquez93

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Hi, I'm looking for a bit of help/advice. I just powered up my new rig for the first time but I can't get any graphics output. I've tried all four DVI connections. The monitor just goes into power save mode. :confused: The board is an Asus Rampage IV Formula X79 and the graphics cards are Powercolor Radeon R9 290X's. Everything appears to connected fine. I only have have the hard drive which I want to hold my OS plugged into the board at present.

Photograph of rig.

I don't have a spare graphics card to try at the minute but I can get the lend of one if I need to.
 
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Does the motherboard display a Q-code? (top right corner there's an LED)

Just out of interest, why have you installed the graphics card in those slots?
 
No code being displayed on the board.

I just found it more convenient to put them in the middle two slots. Gave me a bit more hand room for connecting cables and doing the tubing. Even at that it was still pretty awkward to get some of the cables on the motherboard.
 
One thing I've just noticed... have you connected up the 8 pin EPS connector at the top of the motherboard as I'm not seeing a cable on the picture you've uploaded
 
Ok, I'm a plonker. :o It helps when all the power cables are plugged in. Everything working now. :) Thanks for pointing that out BatFink. I'd probably have sat here pulling all my hair out before I noticed the missing power cable. :D
 
We've all done it at some point :)

I spent ages trying to work out why I had no image on a monitor once, turned out my darling nephew had turned the brightness down to 0
 
lol classic mistake! We've all been there and had the heart attach when nothing displays! Total "Doh!" moment
 
Thought the hard part was over (building loop without any leaks) but unfortunately that hasn't proved to be the case. :( I'm having serious issues getting Windows 7 installed. :mad: I'm trying to use a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5 inch Basic SATA Solid State Drive as my C: drive. When I first tried to boot from Windows DVD it hung at the starting windows screen. In the BIOS I changed SATA operation from AHCI to IDE. This allowed me to run setup and get Windows installed. Started to install drivers and requested a reboot. After reboot Windows wouldn't load. Couldn't even boot from DVD either just kept hanging at starting windows screen. I had to remove the hard drive and connect if via usb to my laptop and format it. Put it back in the PC and was able to run setup again but Windows didn't install properly. After the reboot during setup it just keeps hanging at starting Windows. I have tried changing back and forward between IDE and AHCI in the BIOS and I've also downloaded a fresh copy of Windows and put it on a memory stick. It doesn't make any difference it just keeps hanging at starting windows screen. At the minute I have the solid state drive out and am formatting it for a second time.

Any help would be much appreciated. Is there something I'm missing in the BIOS? :confused: I'm just about ready to take a very large hammer to it at this stage.:mad:
 
Load Bios optimized settings and install windows as normal then when its working and you are in go to REGEDIT

Navigate to this HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services

Then In the left pane click on "msahci"

Then in the right window right click on the START and MODIFY change it to ZERO then close it.

Re boot then get into the bios change from IDE to AHCI save and exit then windows will boot up again and load the AHCI drivers you need.

Et voila :).

Windows does not load AHCI by default only IDE, so when you try and change it it hasn't loaded the drivers and will hang.
 
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I just reset the BIOS to a default setting to undo any changes I'd made. I then set SATA to IDE. Attempted to boot from DVD but again it just hangs at starting Windows. I also attempted booting from the memory stick but it does the exact same thing. Why?
 
But if it is hanging before it even gets to windows like you say attempting to boot from the dvd drive it cant be the op system.

All i can think is to reformat the hdd and start over, do not change it from ide until you have windows working then do the instruction above to get the AHCI working.

Create a new simple drive with the ssd when you format it do it with the quick format, sorry if you know this already.
 
I just got setup to run but it isn't detecting the SSD for some reason. I'll format it yet again and see if it makes any difference. At least setup has now decided to run.
 
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