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Radeon RX 460 - No Monitor Signal

masten

masten

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Hi

Ive just installed a GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE 2X OC 2GB GDDR5 Graphics Card but comes up with no signal for both hdmi and dvi. Cant get into BIOS or anything. It's not booting either at all I dont think. Its fully seated and connected properly. I cant tell if card is getting power as I know fans doesnt spin anyway when idling. There are no lights coming on.

I put the card that was in there before (nvidia gt520) back and it runs fine. System has a gigabyte motherboard, core i3 and Corsair 430W PSU. Card does not require 6 pin connector as runs on motherboard power

Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2PV (Rev 1.0 I assume) It says UEFI BIOS in the BIOS screen. Is from 2012. Could it be that and needs BIOS update? Dont really want to do that as will prob invalidate warranty on PC if it goes wrong during flashing.

I might be best just returning and getting an older equivalent i.e. GTX 750 Ti, or something. Sure that'll work

Thanks in advance

Masten
 
Most likely the BIOS needs updating.

Considering its age I don't think it will be under warranty any more? Besides, the board has a back up BIOS so if anything goes wrong with the main BIOS, the back up BIOS will take action and restore the main BIOS.
 
Hi and thanks. Yeah actually its an old-stock OEM Zoostorm PC I bought only a month ago as an office PC.

After I got it thought I could use it do some gaming as well by putting new PSU and graphics card in it.

Yeah is probably the BIOS though they recommend not updating as it'll then lose the activation Key in the BIOS, but I think they're getting mixed up as it's a Win7 OS which doesnt have the activation keys in the BIOS does it as far as I know, but I could be wrong?

Would I likely to have more luck with say a Geforce GTX 750 Ti, as thats an older card

Thanks

Masten
 
You would, but the 460 is the better card and is more worth keeping.

As it's Windows 7 you'll be fine, just flash away. I assume they supplied you with the product key as well? Should be on a Windows sticker on the PC.
 
Hi again and thanks for your reply.

Ok great, yeah that's what I thought. Yeah product key is on the sticker, but flashing the BIOS shouldn't require me using that again should it?

Cheers

M
 
It shouldn't do, I flashed my BIOS a couple of times on my 7 install, and it stay activated. But you have the key anyway just in case you need to reactivate.
 
Hmmm turns out if I flash the BIOS I invalidate the warranty (11 months left), so dunno what to do really?

I could order another card like the GTX 750 Ti see if that works (probably won't anyway), but then again not much point having a PC you can't use what you want in it - I did order that Radeon RX 460 specifically 'cos that's the card I wanted.

Shall I just flash it and be done with? Was very cheap PC anyway, no big deal invalidating warranty I guess

On that matter on the boards BIOS site there are the options below. The one I have is FD. Shall I use the latest FId one - it's a beta but it does have the latest update for Hi-end Graphics cards

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FId 2.85 MB 2014/02/27
Beta BIOS
Improve High-End Display card compatibility

FH 2.73 MB 2013/02/27
Fix BIOS Setup issue

FG 2.73 MB 2013/02/08
Improve onboard graphic compatibility

FF 2.73 MB 2012/12/14

Support Secure boot option
Improve PCIEx16 graphic card compatibility

FE 2.67 MB 2012/07/02
Add Realtek LAN chip support

FD 2.65 MB 2012/03/23
Update CPU microcode
Enhanced DRAM OC ability

What is a BETA?
BETA describes a new version that is reliable yet may not include all the features of the final product. During this phase we are previewing new features and gathering customer input to insure our product provides the best experience possible.
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Many thanks again

Masten
 
I had this happen when I went from 5850 to 280X on a Gigabyte Z77 motherboard. So try this -

Put your old card back in....

Go into the motherboard's BIOS and in PCIe slots settings change it from EFI to Legacy support.

Put the new card back in....

If that doesnt work, upgrade your BIOS.

After reading through your OP again it sounds like you got unlucky and it could be a DOA, but try the above or a BIOS upgrade before deciding to send it back.

Good Luck and I hope you sort it. :)
 
Hi Maonayze. In BIOS features there is a 'PCI ROM priority', and the chocies are 'EFI compatible ROM' and 'Legacy ROM' Is that what you mean?

Is currently set to 'EFI compatible'

Setting that cant mess anything else up though can it? I dont have any other cards plugged in.

Thanks

M
 
Hi guys. That so worked! - changing the PCI from EFI to legacy that is. Didn't think it would as seemed too obscure. Didnt even have to update bios so warranty not been invalidated either. Thanks a lot. Saved me a mot of messing about :)

Masten
 
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