stupid card not working

TurnipHead · 22 Jul 2010 at 20:30

My stupid graphics card has stopped working, the fan isn't spinning and I'm getting no video input. The onboard graphics works fine. I had a problem with my PC last week and assumed it was my PSU, anyway, after a few weeks I decided to get a few new parts and now the graphics card isn't working. Could it of just fried the card along with it?

I'm sure in my old PC their was a connecter from the PSU to help the fan on the GFX card spin, but on my new one, the graphics card is just sitting on it's own with nothing around it. Is the stupid thing buggered?

mrtckane · 22 Jul 2010 at 20:31

specs?

TurnipHead · 22 Jul 2010 at 20:45

Antec Truepower New 550W
AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 245 2.90GHz (Socket AM3)
Gigabyte AMD 760G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard
OCZ Gold Low Voltage 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel
ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB

The gfx card and the hdd arent new, the mobo, cpu, ram and psu are. Anything to do with drivers? I really have no idea.

Do I need to enable it from the bios? (read that on tinternet) ALthough never had to before.

edit: i use my computer too much everyday and i haven't had it for two weeks, i almost died earlier today when the stupid thing didnt come on.

edit: tum dee dum....*twiddles thumbs*

edit: hmm, I might go have something to eat. I like food.

edit: maybe if I had put my stupid specs in my OP then mrtckane wouldn't of needed to ask me, and would have helped staight away. that'll teach me for being a stupid idiot tossburger.

edit: mm that food was nice, i hope i can get this fixed. hehehe

edit: oh I sure do I hope I get a reply soon, weeeeeeeeee.

edit: oooh 67 views, does no-one have a solution or just too lazy to read my post? hehehehe poop

edit: i am so bored lololol, refreshed this page 1000 times in 12 minutes.

edit: has this thread died? what are the rules on bumping?

TurnipHead · 22 Jul 2010 at 23:10

cant be bothered waiting. if i get in trouble oh well. bump.

straxusii · 22 Jul 2010 at 23:15

TurnipHead said:
edit: i use my computer too much everyday and i haven't had it for two weeks, i almost died earlier today when the stupid thing didnt come on.

edit: tum dee dum....*twiddles thumbs*

edit: hmm, I might go have something to eat. I like food.

edit: maybe if I had put my stupid specs in my OP then mrtckane wouldn't of needed to ask me, and would have helped staight away. that'll teach me for being a stupid idiot tossburger.

edit: mm that food was nice, i hope i can get this fixed. hehehe

edit: oh I sure do I hope I get a reply soon, weeeeeeeeee.

edit: oooh 67 views, does no-one have a solution or just too lazy to read my post? hehehehe poop

edit: i am so bored lololol, refreshed this page 1000 times in 12 minutes.

edit: has this thread died? what are the rules on bumping?

A good way to get help

D13 · 22 Jul 2010 at 23:18

so you have new psu and you remember a 'wire' being attached to the gou previously to power the fan, well in that case you need to attach a pci-e connector from psu to the gpu to power it. look for a 6pin socket on the gpu

D13 · 22 Jul 2010 at 23:19

straxusii said:
A good way to get help

heh heh yeah but i think his pc problem is pushing him over the edge

also turnip if you cannot see a clear 6pin socket on the card look for a loose cable coming from the fan, is it attached to a small socket on the card?

TurnipHead · 23 Jul 2010 at 09:34

The wire I remembered from my old mobo didn't go into the GPU, it went just above it on the mobo labeled 'PWR_Fan'

There isn't a 6 pin pci-e socket on the card or the mobo, neither a 4. Only an 8 on the mobo which is already connected.

The loose cable coming from the fan is connected to the card.

MeatLoaf · 23 Jul 2010 at 09:39

If the 4670has a 6 pin power connector on it then you need to plug it in from the PSU

TurnipHead · 23 Jul 2010 at 10:02

It doesn't. No signs of any possible connection to the card.

Is there not enough power?

Rabtech · 23 Jul 2010 at 10:18

Test the graphics card in a different machine, if it works then its either a motherboard or power supply problem imo.

TurnipHead · 23 Jul 2010 at 10:25

At start up it also says

AMD Data Change. Update to DMI.
Insert system disc etc...

My hard drive wouldn't stop the card from working would it?

It also tells me the SATA is in IDE mode, and asks if I want to change it?

How do I find if the hd is being recognised in BIOS? It's only showing the CD

D13 · 23 Jul 2010 at 10:39

go into device manager and open the display adapters drop down, do you see any mention of the ati card? is it enabled?

TurnipHead · 23 Jul 2010 at 10:41

It seems my HDD formatted it self so I don't have an OS yet.

It tells me the SATA is in IDE mode, and asks if I want to change it, should I?

D13 · 23 Jul 2010 at 10:53

well if it is connected to mobo via sata then yes it should be set to sata give it a try (no os cant get much worse). If it starts to behave normally then re-format and we will see what happens from there

TurnipHead · 23 Jul 2010 at 11:17

I just tried the Windows disc, went pretty far up until the point where it said it didn't recognise a HDD.

I have a Sata cable from the HDD to the PSU, a Sata cable from the HDD to the mobo. I also had to get an extra cable from the bag it came in to plug power into the HDD, but I wasn't sure where to plug it into the PSU, is that important which one it goes in?

MeatLoaf · 23 Jul 2010 at 11:17

Check in the BIOS that your hard drive is set as the boot device.

D13 · 23 Jul 2010 at 11:21

well the connector the plugs into the hdd is a pretty distinctive l shape so if it fits it must be the appropriate cable.
Just to be clear you are using an alternative system that you can test with?

also is this the order of events;

system boots up but doesnt recognise graphics card, the onbaord gpu works and you can get into windows but card simply not recognised?

then hdd (formats it-self) you can no longer reach windows?

TurnipHead · 23 Jul 2010 at 11:25

I couldn't reach windows last night either, I just assumed because of all the new components it would reformat anyway.

I noticed this on the spec of my PSU

1 x 6 pin and 1 x 8 (6+2) pin PCI-E graphics card connectors for TP-550 -
2 x 6 pin and 2 x 8 (6+2) pin PCI-E graphics card connectors for TP-650, TP-750

The sockets on my power supply dont have nothing in them, only powering the HDD which isn't even being recognised now.

When I go to boot menu, I select Hdd and then the next screen says 'Bootable Add-in Cards', I don't wanna click it because I don't really know what it means.

RizlaKing · 23 Jul 2010 at 11:41

Far as i know pci-e 4670 is not powered extrenally it is powered purely by the pci slot last one i dealt with had no other power connectors and yours should be the pci-e one

. I have avoided antec psu's since a couple of truepowers did some damage to systems i made for others (they requested the antec wasn't my recommendation) so look at that do you have a friend that could lend you their psu for you to test.