Display/Graphics Card Issue

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sh4rpz

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Hi guys,

I have a Core2Quad PC built in 2009 for office use. A few months ago the HDD crashed and we just left it aside, cos we had other machines.

Anyhow I tried to get it up and running again and I found that when I set it up and connected to a screen, the monitor says 'check display connection'. I've checked the ports and reconnected it a few times as well as checked the card connected to the MB but still gives me the same message.

Is this definitely the graphics card? The MB seems to be working fine, at the moment no way of testing it.

The board is an ASUS board, socket 775 with no VGA ports - so I'm using a cheapo 64bit 512DDR2 graphics card.

Any ideas?
 
I know you say the board has no vga ports but perhaps check in the bios, disable on board graphics if it is activated.

Try the card in another slot?
 
Happy Camper said:
I know you say the board has no vga ports but perhaps check in the bios, disable on board graphics if it is activated.

Try the card in another slot?
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Can't even get to see the boot screen cos it's not displaying anything...almost as if not detecting VGA. no beeps from the MB tho.

Hmm.. I think it's a PCIE 2.0 which the board has only 1 such slot. Will have a better look tho.
 
I used to get this error on a older system of mine, and realised that if you have a gigabyte motherboard, and the sata cables aren't properly connected, it causes this. Does the system boot correctly?
 
axon1988 said:
I used to get this error on a older system of mine, and realised that if you have a gigabyte motherboard, and the sata cables aren't properly connected, it causes this. Does the system boot correctly?
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Shew...hard to tell...as I said, it doesn't display anything - as if the PC isn't connected to the monitor. The hard drive is freshly formatted, so it's not really going to go very far anyway.
 
sh4rpz said:
no beeps from the MB tho.
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Disconnect everythig, power, HDD, GPU, RAM, CPU.

Reinsert CPU & RAM, connect up power and switch on. See if you get the normal post beeb. next add the GPU and try again, carry on like this until everything is reconnected.

It could be a semi-dead PSU. Maybe try a different PSU first before doing all the work in the previous step.
 
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