4850 and Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2PV

[cytg111]

So i got a prebuilt rig with the "Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2PV" mainboard in it .. and i wanted to upgrade it with an old 4850 i had lying around ... But for the life of me i cannot get it to recognize the card .. nothing... Am i missing something obvious ?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

you have to install the drivers

 

[VirtualLarry]

With the card physically installed into the slot (don't forget to plug in the 6-pin PCI-E power connector too!), and the monitor physically connected to an output on the card, do you see the BIOS POST screen?

If you do, then the card is working, and you probably just need to install drivers in Windows.

If you don't see anything, then something is wrong. Either with the mobo, power supply, or the card. Not in that order.

 

[philipma1957]

did the rig come with a card and work with the card it came with? did you just pull the oem card and do not know if the oem card worked? if it had a cheap card and the card worked you may not have plugged the 6 pin power in correctly to the new card.

 

[cytg111]

"you have to install the drivers "
- Onto what ? That is kind of the problem.



"With the card physically installed into the slot (don't forget to plug in the 6-pin PCI-E power connector too!), and the monitor physically connected to an output on the card, do you see the BIOS POST screen?
If you do, then the card is working, and you probably just need to install drivers in Windows.
If you don't see anything, then something is wrong. Either with the mobo, power supply, or the card. Not in that order. "
- No, nothing happens (no post), i even went in and disabled the onboard gfx, which resultet in a beep-boot-fest galore, had to reset the bios.
I figured it could be the 6pin connector so i actually took another PSU from another case and used that as the 6pin source .. with excatly the same problem.
Device manager shows no unidentified devices.. it is as the card is not there !!



"did the rig come with a card and work with the card it came with? did you just pull the oem card and do not know if the oem card worked? if it had a cheap card and the card worked you may not have plugged the 6 pin power in correctly to the new card. "
- No, and the existing/working gfx is onboard/integrated.

I will have to test this card out in another rig ....