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brand new system won't post

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kidhero

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hi so it's been a while since i've built a new computer so over the week i assembled the parts and tonight fitted them altogether.

one thing that i bought that's pretty new to me is a PCI-e card (Radeon X850XT) and when I plugged it into the system and booted up it beeped for a bit and on the monitor it displayed a BIOS message: You did not plug in a power connector to your Graphics Card.

I quickly turned off the computer and looked and realized I needed a 6-pin power adapter for the GPU fan. After a trip to Fry's and buying one and plugging it in the system now does not turn on, no power whatsoever.

I take out the card, check all the connections and used the onboard graphics and booted all the way to Windows fine. Plugged back in the Radeon and again, same deal, no power whatsoever. No fans, no lights, nothing.

So my question, did I FUBAR and shorted the graphics card on account of not plugging in the fan? It was on for a matter of a few seconds.

Any ideas?
 
I don't see how not giving it power would short it out?
I assume you had the onboard graphics disabled and there may be a setting to enable your pci-e card as well
 
i didn't power the GPU fan. it booted once to tell me that i forgot to plug in teh GPU fan. i'm trying to find out if that will fry the graphics card itself.
 
That big 6-pin connector isn't to power the GPU fan, it's to power the GPU itself. Maybe your PSU doesn't have enough power for your rig with the new GPU in it. What's your complete system specs (all drives, cards, and CPU) and what brand and model is your power supply?
 
coolermaster centurion 5
coolermaster 380w psu
amd athlon 64 3200+ (am2)
ecs motherboard K8M890M-M
1 sata hard drive
1 ide hard drive
1 dvd+-rw
1 pci 802.11g wireless adapter


under 380w?
 
i stand corrected. it's actually 350w ... maybe this is why. i'm going to drop in an ultra brand 500w psu and see if that works
 
If its not the power supply---see if you can re-enable on board graphics if you have it. If not borrow or buy a super cheap video card that will go into a pci slot to see if something in windows or the bios put your PCI-E slot off limits.---get that reset and you may be good to go.

And if you can, test the Radeon video card on another computer---because it may be now dead.

And you should be able to find some spec on how many watts your video card draws.
 
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