No display from my gpu

[Ritsugamesh]

I just upgraded a portion of my system up to an i5 2500k cpu (so very happy!) and I've been running through the motions, sorting everything out on it etc. but for some reason I can't get a display from my graphics card.

I'm 99% sure this isn't an actual problem with my graphics card as I was running it happily not an hour before I dismantled everything for the change-up.

I'm currently running from a DVI port out the back of my mobo on I presume the integrated 3000 gpu on the cpu.

I'd really like to get this working so I can get back on SWTOR!!! If anybody has any advice it would be greatly appreciated.

Merry Christmas!

EDIT: The motherboard I am using is the MSI Z68A-G43-G3

 

[lrlcr]

Does it work when you plug your monitor into the gpu?

It's probably the bios being set to gpu output as there is a gpu output present.

 

[Surveyor]

Try re-seating the graphics card in the PCI-E slot using the top one nearest the processor.

Also did you remember to securely fit the two 6 pin power cables to the graphics card?

 

[Ritsugamesh]

Managed to fix it, though it's not quite as ideal as I'd hoped.

I had to swap it out and put it into my PCI-E 2 slot rather than my 3 slot. I was under the impression that they were backwards compatible but after being unable to find any driver or bios update that mentioned support for 2 cards in 3 slots I just went and through it in the old slot.

Working fine now! Thanks guys, merry christmas.

 

[xsistor]

It should work fine. Are you sure your bios wasn't set to use onboard GPU? You can make it use the PEG if one is present.

I have the MSI Z68A-GD65-G3 on one my main gaming machine and I use my graphics card on the first slot. But I didn't need to change any bios settings for this. When I first got the CPU/cooler and RAM on I powered it up with the IGPU and it worked fine. Then I proceeded to fit everything in the case, installed the graphics card and it worked fine from the get go.

 

[Orcvader]

I would recheck your BIOS settings, it might've been set so when there's something in the first PCI-E slot, the onboard GPU on the i5 gets disabled.

Plus the card will work in the first slot. The PCI-E controller on the i5 is PCI-E 2.0 anyway, so it's not running in 3.0 mode.

How come you're connecting the monitor to the onboard instead of directly to the graphics card?

 

[Ritsugamesh]

Sorry I perhaps didn't explain it well enough, the reason I was running from my mobo is because I couldn't get a display when using my fitted gpu in the 3 slot.

I will check again for a BIOS update and also to check whether the onboard gpu is over-riding my pic gpu.

As I said, I do have it working now, playing from my 4890 and displaying from it too, just not from the slot I would have liked.