New ATI 7950 not displaying

[Kaelsin]

Evening all,

I acquired a ATI HIS 7950 today from overclockers to replace my Nvidia 570. and I'm having an issue I hope you can help me solve.

I fitted the HIS 7950 card this evening, the fans on the card spin and the monitor stays black and removes the 'Check signal' message as if it is receiving a signal from the card but no image ever displays.

I've tried the 7950 in several PCI-E slots as well as switching the 6-pin power cables being plugged into it but no luck. I've plugged my Nvidia 570 back in twice and its displayed instantly twice, the on-board graphics also display.

I've also tried uninstalling the Nvidia drivers, restarting and installing the ATI Catalyst drivers then plugging the 7950 back in but again no luck.

Could this card just be dead on arrival? Unfortunately I don't have another PC to plug it into at this moment in time.

Any ideas on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated!

For reference the power supply is a Corsair TX-750w and the motherboard is a gigabyte Z77x-D3H.

 

[wazza300]

what bios version? might need latest one for that card

GA-Z77X-D3H - F18g http://www.mediafire.com/?57ty9rmuo273d00

you can either use this latest beta or the latest final off gigabytes website,backup your bios/oc settings before you flash with qflash

you can flash back aswell if you don't want to use latest bios

 

[Kaelsin]

what bios version? might need latest one for that card

GA-Z77X-D3H - F18g http://www.mediafire.com/?57ty9rmuo273d00

you can either use this latest beta or the latest final off gigabytes website,backup your bios/oc settings before you flash with qflash

you can flash back aswell if you don't want to use latest bios

Not sure what BIOS version it is, I've not updated it since I bought it months ago. Will look into the BIOS shortly and post back, good shout though had not given the BIOS a thought =/

 

[Kaelsin]

I owe you one Wazza, would give you a big kiss if you were right here.

Updated the Bios from F7 to F18 and it now works, can not believe I did not think to update the BIOS.

Again man, thanks!

 

[LtMatt]

Good shout Wazz!

@ OP now take a look at this thread.

 

[~>Dg<~]

yep i had to update mine for it to work

 

[wazza300]

ready when you are

 

[LtMatt]

A Face only a mother could love.

Good pic Wazz. Will add that one to the collection.

 

[wazza300]

just need you to sit on my face and im complete

 

[LtMatt]

just need you to sit on my face and im complete

I'm lost for words, pictures and gifs.