Gaming PC build advice? Help?!

[mnewsham]

Try another DVI port, (if it has one) if not try HDMI

 

[NomarFachix]

Both DVI ports said "no DVI signal" when I plugged them in. There is no HDMI port on the video card, just an HDMI to DVI converter attachment, and the DVI port wasn't working anyway.

 

[Chameleon_911]

Wait, is all this trouble from the power outage you experienced? I was thinking about following your parts list but now that you've witnessed so many errors and problems i'm hesitant to do so.

 

[NomarFachix]

Wait, is all this trouble from the power outage you experienced? I was thinking about following your parts list but now that you've witnessed so many errors and problems i'm hesitant to do so.

I have no idea. The power outage happened pre-first boot.

 

[NomarFachix]

This is killing me. Been working on this since 3 PM yesterday, everything is seemingly stable now outside of the video card. Which I CANNOT figure out for the life of me. D:

 

[mfenn]

This is killing me. Been working on this since 3 PM yesterday, everything is seemingly stable now outside of the video card. Which I CANNOT figure out for the life of me. D:

First things first, in the future never ever install anything from the mobo CD. That's a perfect way to ruin a clean Windows install IMHO. You'll definitely need the monitor plugged into the GPU to use it.

Do you see the BIOS screen when you use the GPU? If not, first connect to the IGP, go into the BIOS, and there should be an option somewhere to tell it to use a PCIe graphics device instead of the onboard.

 

[NomarFachix]

mfenn helped me fix everything, he is the greatest person these boards have ever encountered!

:wub::wub::wub::wub::wub:

 

[mfenn]

mfenn helped me fix everything, he is the greatest person these boards have ever encountered!

:wub::wub::wub::wub::wub:

/me takes a bow!

Just to help out anyone that may run into this same problem, it turned out that the MSI motherboard was defaulting to using the IGP and disabling the PCIe graphics card. The fix was to go into the BIOS and set the initial display device to PCIe graphics.

 

[NomarFachix]

Wait, is all this trouble from the power outage you experienced? I was thinking about following your parts list but now that you've witnessed so many errors and problems i'm hesitant to do so.

DO NOT be hesitant! The problems were my doing and they are straightened out, and this thing is a monster. I am in love :wub: