New game / New Graphics card.

might be worth returning it then.
I actually have a dead msi 7950 here.
Its that or buy a psu but then you may be spending money on something and it still wont work.
(i do agree with people here about a good psu)
 
I emailed Overclockers customer support earlier explaining my issue, I supplied them with a link to this post.

I hope to christ I get this sorted, I can't afford to throw £120 in the bin.
 
I read all way back and went through your PC spec. Noticed you have Hyundai B90A monitor that only use D-Sub, think you used DVI to VGA adapter to display information so maybe it possible motherboard beep after PC on could mean that it warned you there is a faulty DVI port.

Do you have HDMI to VGA adapter to test see if information will display fine?
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
I read all way back and went through your PC spec. Noticed you have Hyundai B90A monitor that only use D-Sub, think you used DVI to VGA adapter to display information so maybe it possible motherboard beep after PC on could mean that it warned you there is a faulty DVI port.

Do you have HDMI to VGA adapter to test see if information will display fine?
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You guessed right, I connected with a DVI to VGA converter.

I'm sorry to say that I don't have a HDMI to VGA converter.
 
No reply from Overclockers Customer Support.

I'm starting to suspect that I have just thrown £120 down the toilet.
 
Update.

Overclockers sent me an RMA, i mailed the graphics card to them at the cost of £11.00.

Overclockers have tested it and are sending it back to me as 'No fault found'.

So the bill so far is £131 approx for a graphics card which still does not work in my system.

Remember, I bought this following recommendations from forum members.

So, what do I do now. buy a new motherboard, RAM, CPU, heat sink and fan and fully re build my PC.........
 
Trebz do you have a HDTV in your house?

If so try using that to see if you can get the card to display, using HDMI cable.

Unfortunately these sort of upgrades in older systems often high other weakspots that will need upgrading.

Edit- as Idleman mentions though, no way would i be using molex cables to power it, you really need a better PSU bud.
 
uksoldierboy said:
Trebz do you have a HDTV in your house?

If so try using that to see if you can get the card to display, using HDMI cable.

Unfortunately these sort of upgrades in older systems often high other weakspots that will need upgrading.

Edit- as Idleman mentions though, no way would i be using molex cables to power it, you really need a better PSU bud.
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I'll try that as I have a HDTV next to my PC screen, I stole it a few days ago from our bedroom.

I would have to ask: Why was this graphics card recommended in the first place, I gave the full system spec including motherboard spec. I doubt very much that this is down to a low end power supply.

I know that some suggested I buy a new power supply but I'm not convinced that this would resolve the issue, see post above.

If someone had said: You might have to upgrade your power supply, motherboard, CPU, RAM etc I would have told the wife to stick the game she bought me up her a***e.
 
Trebz said:
What does that mean?

So you are saying that to make this work I need to buy a power supply. I already have a 700wt power supply which should more than cover it.
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Trebz you have an Old ass PSU bud that isn't designed to power a gpu like the 7950, if it was, it would have the required connectors, it doesn't, there for it isn't.

Try a HDTV, but unless the fans are spinning on the card, i'd not bother until you're able to power it correctly.
 
Wow you have HDTV? Make me wonder why you used old VGA monitor with a maximum 1280x1024 resolution. You would had rid of it long time ago and stick with HDTV which gave much better maximum 1920x1080 resolution with HDMI cable.

If it worked with spare HDTV then your VGA monitor is blamed for issue or if it still not display information on screen then it your motherboard issue because GA-MA770T-UD3P is 6 years old now with no further new BIOS updates.
 
uksoldierboy said:
Trebz you have an Old ass PSU bud that isn't designed to power a gpu like the 7950, if it was, it would have the required connectors, it doesn't, there for it isn't.

Try a HDTV, but unless the fans are spinning on the card, i'd not bother until you're able to power it correctly.
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Ok cool, understood.
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
Wow you have HDTV? Make me wonder why you used old VGA monitor with a maximum 1280x1024 resolution. You would had rid of it long time ago and stick with HDTV which gave much better maximum 1920x1080 resolution with HDMI cable.

If it worked with spare HDTV then your VGA monitor is blamed for issue or if it still not display information on screen then it your motherboard issue because GA-MA770T-UD3P is 6 years old now with no further new BIOS updates.
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Right, gotcha.
 
Apologies to all for:

A. Being a bit thick.
B. Ranting a bit.

I'm way out of date with my hardware knowledge and I'm crapping my pants in case I've wasted my hard earned cash. I'll try the HDMI screen when the card comes back and let you know the results.

If that fails it's another £50 for a PSU.
 
Reading this entire thread and looking at what we're trying to achieve, buying a new graphics card was never going to be a simple solution or a workable one.

You have an aged PC which is using low end parts:

Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P
AMD Athlon II X3 435
"Artic" 700W PSU with 1 x 6 pin PCI-E

The 7950 was a good buy looking at your budget, but looking at the rest of your system you would have needed a new PSU as it's a cheap brand with cheap internals that doesn't have the ability to power the GPU. It should spark questions when a 700W PSU only have a single 6 pin GPU connector.

Next steps would be for me personally:

Either grab a decent 500W PSU and BIOS update your motherboard and go from there.
Or call it quits and sell the card off to regain some losses.

It's slowly becomming a bodge job with trying to power the GPU without a decent power supply, which if it did work could have blown the PSU and the card meaning you'd be down more than £131.

OR!

Connection to your monitor isn't correct and might be the solution.
HDMI to VGA won't work as HDMI is digital and VGA is analogue, which rrequires a converter inbetween.

DVI to HDMI will be fine, simalarly, VGA to VGA.
 
uksoldierboy said:
Edit- as Idleman mentions though, no way would i be using molex cables to power it, you really need a better PSU bud.
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Just about every new graphics card bundled 1 or 2 PCI-E molex cables, it worked fine as long PSUs don't have PCI-E cables. Last time I used PCI-E molex cable when I had Geforce 8800 GTX because it got 2 x 6 pin PCI-E power connector and my old PSU had only 1 PCI-E cable.
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
Just about every new graphics card bundled 1 or 2 PCI-E molex cables, it worked fine as long PSUs don't have PCI-E cables. Last time I used PCI-E molex cable when I had Geforce 8800 GTX because it got 2 x 6 pin PCI-E power connector and my old PSU had only 1 PCI-E cable.
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Absolutely right bud,

Almost all new Gpu's ship with the connectors for PCI-Molex, Just as almost all new psu's come with two or more PCIE connectors.

I was just reinforcing the fact that his PSU is old and probably isn't best to run a 7950.

Were it me, i'd never use the adaptors on modern cards.
 
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