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My graphics card isn't detecting!

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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PCIE 3.0 cards are backwards compatible to PCIE 2.0 :rolleyes:

Not sure but when my R9 290 died it would run the fan but when looking under device manager awhile using igpu the 290 wouldn't show up. If you had another card to test then you would probably know.
 
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Replace power connector?
Try testing bios to default. I know it sounds stupid but sometimes there's a dumb gitchy setting hidden away that you can't think of.
 
You should get something in device manager regardless if anything is plugged into the graphics card hdmi or dvi. The card is most likley faulty or the motherboard does not support the card, it needs testing in another computer to see if its okay or broken as you seem to have done everthing else.
 
formby said:
You should get something in device manager regardless if anything is plugged into the graphics card hdmi or dvi. The card is most likley faulty or the motherboard does not support the card, it needs testing in another computer to see if its okay or broken as you seem to have done everthing else.
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Ok I'll ask one of my friends if I can plug it into their PC.
 
formby said:
You should get something in device manager regardless if anything is plugged into the graphics card hdmi or dvi. The card is most likley faulty or the motherboard does not support the card, it needs testing in another computer to see if its okay or broken as you seem to have done everthing else.
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Exactly this.:)



If any new device doesn't show up in device manager it is either faulty or not compatible with the motherboard or you have bad settings in the motherboard bios causing the card not to initialize or even turned off PCI-E lanes. Another thing to remember is UEFI and Legacy BIOS on new hardware may also cause this. Some motherboards don't like UEFI VBIOS on some graphics cards so never get detected too, so you have to sometimes set to legacy type VBIOS (if there is a 2nd VBIOS with the correct VBIOS) Sometimes you need to contact the graphics card maker for a VBIOS that is correct for your motherboard.
 
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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What? It should be fine in a gen 2 PCIe slot! No GPU "requires" gen 3 PCIe, they will just get faster data transfers over gen 3.
 
Sebjay said:
Thanks for replying! That's a massive relief. I thought the gpu was broken. Motherboards aren't too hard to install are they?
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when you disabled the onboard/onchip gpu and the screen went black, did you turn of the computer and unplug the monitor cable from the back of your motherboard and into the back of the graphics card?

a pcie 2 card will work sweet in a pcie 3 slot...
 
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