No monitor connection after new build

[Woody1122]

Hi all,

I've just upgraded my PC - part of that included a Radeon 7850 and gigabyte Ga-z68ap-d3.

The upgrade went fine, and to my surprise after such a thorough change of components it booted. I couldn't get access to the Internet, however, so I installed some of the motherboard drivers via USB (I did not have the original driver disk). After doing the reboot, no image was coming up on the monitor.

I suspect this is because the drivers have told the MoBo to use the on board graphics (I believe the 2500k has inbuilt graphics?) and so I now need to tell the BIOS to use the graphics card as the default VGA output. The problem is, the onboard graphics only have a HDMI out (no VGA) and I only have a VGA monitor. Is there any way to get around the problem?

On a side note, I had 39 pin cable for my DVD drive, my new hard drive did not have an input for that - will I need to buy a replacement?

Many thanks!

 

[Spud21]

When you say VGA, do you mean the old school VGA connection or a dvi connection? If its dvi you should be able to get a hdmi to dvi converter for a couple of quid so you can at least get some kind of picture to get at the bios.

Have you tried resorting the CMOS on the motherboard as that might kick it into using the graphics card.

With the DVD drive I'm guessing the big cable is an IDE cable, and if you only have sata connections on the motherboard then you will need a new drive I believe, although do you really need a DVD drive as other than watching films my blu ray drive in my PC is largely redundant.

 

[Woody1122]

When you say VGA, do you mean the old school VGA connection or a dvi connection? If its dvi you should be able to get a hdmi to dvi converter for a couple of quid so you can at least get some kind of picture to get at the bios.

Have you tried resorting the CMOS on the motherboard as that might kick it into using the graphics card.

With the DVD drive I'm guessing the big cable is an IDE cable, and if you only have sata connections on the motherboard then you will need a new drive I believe, although do you really need a DVD drive as other than watching films my blu ray drive in my PC is largely redundant.

You're quite right on both accounts, I don't mean VGA at all, I mean DVI as you say. Yeah, just ordered a converter from amazon, bit of a faff!

How would I go about restoring the CMOS, and is there any risk in doing so?

I suppose they are largely redundant, I was just thinking of when you buy a physical game disk or, as you say, want to watch films.

Thanks!

 

[Spud21]

You're quite right on both accounts, I don't mean VGA at all, I mean DVI as you say. Yeah, just ordered a converter from amazon, bit of a faff!

How would I go about restoring the CMOS, and is there any risk in doing so?

I suppose they are largely redundant, I was just thinking of when you buy a physical game disk or, as you say, want to watch films.

Thanks!

I'm not familiar with the motherboard you have, but most have 3 pins with a jumper, to reset it you usually move the jumper across to short the connection, power on the PC and it won't do anything then power off put the jumper back and then power up as normal. The last couple of motherboards I've had have had a button rather than a jumper, so it may have a button instead. Best bet is to check in the manual and it will tell you where the jumper/button is and exactly what to do.

I have no idea if it will do anything, as the motherboard should pick up and use the gfx card anyway, but it might kick it into to using the card if for some reason it's stuck on trying to use the on board graphics.