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My graphics card isn't detecting!

Heres why: your motherboard only has PCIE-2 slot, the graphics card requires a PCIE-3 slot!
Sadly fella maybe a new motherboard.
But yeah it won't work in your current mobo sorry :(
 
CSMonkeh said:
Heres why: your motherboard only has PCIE-2 slot, the graphics card requires a PCIE-3 slot!
Sadly fella maybe a new motherboard.
But yeah it won't work in your current mobo sorry :(
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Thanks for replying! That's a massive relief. I thought the gpu was broken. Motherboards aren't too hard to install are they?
 
PCI-E 3 graphics cards are backwards compatible with PCI-E 2, the issue isn't the motherboard. PCI-E 2 runs at just under the same bandwidth as PCI-E 3 at 8x, so at worst you might see a few fps drop on high resolutions.
 
CSMonkeh said:
Heres why: your motherboard only has PCIE-2 slot, the graphics card requires a PCIE-3 slot!
Sadly fella maybe a new motherboard.
But yeah it won't work in your current mobo sorry :(
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GPUs are backwards PCIE compatible, so no his issue is not because of his mobo being PCIE-2, Im running PCIE-3 cards in on my PCIE-2 mobo.
 
CSMonkeh said:
Heres why: your motherboard only has PCIE-2 slot, the graphics card requires a PCIE-3 slot!
Sadly fella maybe a new motherboard.
But yeah it won't work in your current mobo sorry :(
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Please don't give this advise to everyone, as above post. PCIE 3 GPUs work on PCIE 2 lanes.

To OP, can you make sure that the power cables are plugged in properly and the GPU is slotted in firmly?
 
OP you say you bought a new gfx card, do you have an old one to test then? And can you try this new card in another machine? Can you try the hdmi cable you tried on something else to check that works too?
 
9/10 of not detecting is because the card is not fully sat down correctly so...
1,,,,take card out and check there are no bent pins and give them a quick clean with a tissue and alcohol
2... check your pci slot just to make sure that it is clear and nothing has become stuck
3.... insert card back in making sure that your release tab comes back up and it is level all the way across
4....plug power back in and boot up
5.... hopefully it should have been detected ... check under device manager

goodluck
 
PCI-E 3 is fully backwards compatible with PCI-E 2. There is no reason a GTX950 shouldn't be detected. Back in the early days of PCI-E, some people had trouble with PCI-E 2 cards in PCI-E 1 slots, but that was a long time ago.

I've got an AMD system at home that has been happily running a PCI-E 3 graphics card. Could it be a power issue? Unlikely, but you never know.
 
Him saying it as a blanket statement was wrong but it is something that happens. Not because of Pci-e 2 slots but because the motherboards with them are often old and haven't had BIOS updates made in years.
 
spleeny said:
9/10 of not detecting is because the card is not fully sat down correctly so...
1,,,,take card out and check there are no bent pins and give them a quick clean with a tissue and alcohol
2... check your pci slot just to make sure that it is clear and nothing has become stuck
3.... insert card back in making sure that your release tab comes back up and it is level all the way across
4....plug power back in and boot up
5.... hopefully it should have been detected ... check under device manager

goodluck
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Should I take some pictures of the inside of my computer? Just incase I need to plug some stuff in which hasn't been plugged in?
 
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