I was just wondering if anyone may be able to shed some light on why this is happening (I'm suspecting its the graphics card at fault).
First off here is my system specs:
Everything is running nicely without any problems, but I wanted to add a second graphics card so I found a second hand one of the card I already had installed meaning there shouldn't be any problems SLIing them.
I got the card today and it all looks fine, I placed it into the correct PCI-e slot (the board states they should be placed into the 1st slot and 4th slot (the third large slot) ) I attached the SLI bridge.
I booted the system but it never detected the card, so I went into the Bios and it hadn't found the card. I took the card out and placed it back into the slot, again it wasn't found.
I took out my working card and placed the new card into that first slot, the card had power with the green lights on the side next to the 8 pin and 6 pin connectors and the fans would start.
It booted into windows as I had my speakers on and heard the windows start up sound, but there was no picture.
Placing my working card back in and the system boots fine and displays a picture.
Any ideas as to why this may be? otherwise I'm going to have to try and send the card back to the guy I got it from on eBay (hoping he will play ball and give me a refund and not having to get eBay involved)
Cheers in advance for any help.
First off here is my system specs:
Everything is running nicely without any problems, but I wanted to add a second graphics card so I found a second hand one of the card I already had installed meaning there shouldn't be any problems SLIing them.
I got the card today and it all looks fine, I placed it into the correct PCI-e slot (the board states they should be placed into the 1st slot and 4th slot (the third large slot) ) I attached the SLI bridge.
I booted the system but it never detected the card, so I went into the Bios and it hadn't found the card. I took the card out and placed it back into the slot, again it wasn't found.
I took out my working card and placed the new card into that first slot, the card had power with the green lights on the side next to the 8 pin and 6 pin connectors and the fans would start.
It booted into windows as I had my speakers on and heard the windows start up sound, but there was no picture.
Placing my working card back in and the system boots fine and displays a picture.
Any ideas as to why this may be? otherwise I'm going to have to try and send the card back to the guy I got it from on eBay (hoping he will play ball and give me a refund and not having to get eBay involved)
Cheers in advance for any help.