Please Help! Graphics card will not display anyting

[AEracer7]

Hello, I'm new here and I've just finished up my newest build .I recently bought an XFX 4850 hd 1gb to completely finish my build, and it displays no video at all no bios, windows nothing. For the past 3 days I've been trying to make it work playing around with settings, configs, researching my problem, etc and nothing. I have integrated graphics and I've tried with and without them enabled and nothing. The fan starts every time and there's always one beep when I boot with integrated graphics but there is no beep with integrated disabled.

PCI is set as 1st priority to boot from. PCI latency timer is set at 64 (ranges from 32-248 64 is default). I've tried resetting the bios and nothing. I've tried multiple times to unistall the integrated drivers from device manager and nothing. I've tried inserting and reinserting the card at different times. I've also tried different pci express power connectors, and there's a molex connector on my motherboard to help power the pci slot as well. I've also updated the chipset drivers.

The only thing I haven't done is update the bios I have the 2nd most recent bios. The most recent says that it "Updates AGESA code" I have no idea what that means. But does anyone think a bios update could solve my problem?

Any help is greatly appreciated. I'll try anything I really want to get this going even if it's something I've listed just tell me how you'd do it and I'll do it exactly the same. I may have left a step out.

Also I don't have any other pc I could test this in that I'd know it'd work unless i ask my friend to try it in his (it'd be at least a week till I could).

Thanks again in advance (I'll have my set-up in my signature once i figure out how to edit that).
And Happy New Year to all.


Edit: So apparently I'm not permitted to have a signature so my rig is:
ThermalTake V5
Corsair HX-850
Foxconn A7DA-S 3.0
AMD Athlon II X4 640
G-Skill Ripjaws DDR3 2x2gb 1600 mhz (running at 1333mhz though)
Hitachi Deskstar 7200 rpm 500gb
XFX ATI Radeon 4850 hd 1gb
HP DVD Drive
Windows 7 64 bit

 

[RavenSEAL]

2 things:

It's either the PSU, or the card is dead.

What's you power supply?

 

[Attic]

Sounds like you've tried a lot of troubleshooting. You should set bios to have PEG first priority when the 4850 is installed, if that hasn't been done already.

But going forward, Id save yourself the headache and get a hold of another card to attempt and isolate the issue, or simply return the card and try to isolate it that way.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Oh yea, that card has to be dead.

 

[AEracer7]

Thanks for replying so fast guys I appreciate it.

I think I'm going to ask my friend to see if I can borrow his PC, as my other PC's either have integrated graphics, agp card, or are laptops, this pc is my only with a discrete pci card.

And my bios is differnt the graphics boot priority is set to [PCI-GFX0-IGFX] and that is the only option in which pci is first.

Does anyone know if newegg's rma process is difficult? as that's where I bought the card?

Thanks again guys I'll be sure to update you once i know something more.

 

[Modular]

You want the BIOS to be set to GFX0 as the primary boot. That's the PCI-Express slot that your graphics card uses. Also, be sure to disable the on-board video in the BIOS so that it doesn't interfere with the 4850.

Try those things before returning the card.

 

[BoomerD]

I hate to ask, but you DO have the card plugged into the PSU...right?

(Surprisingly, lots of people make that mistake.)

 

[waffleironhead]

from page 36 of your manual.

This item allows you to select the priority of boot sequence from different display devices. Setting
values are: [GFX0-IGFX-PCI], [PCI-GFX0-IGFX], [IGFX-GFX0-PCI]. (GFX0-PCI Express
x16 graphics card; IGFX-onboard VGA; PCI-PCI graphics card.)

So the order should be GFX0 first for the add-onn card. You can also turn off the integrated by setting it to disabled

It allows you to determine whether to allocate memory for the integrated graphics controller from the system memory or SidePort memory.
Options: [Disabled], [UMA], [UMA+SIDEPORT].
[Disabled]- Disables the integrated graphics controller.
[UMA]-In UMA mode, the only memory to which the integrated graphics has access is a
dynamically allocated partition of system memory.

 

[bryanW1995]

I'm embarrassed to admit that several times in the past I've forgotten to plug in my high end gpu, it happens to lots of people. fortunately I always remembered/figured it out within 30 min or so, but it's very frustrating...

 

[Destiny]

How is it connected to your monitor? DVI, VGA or HDMI? Sometimes I forgot to adjust the input on the monitor and had a blonde moment thinking my card was DOA...

 

[AEracer7]

I just tried with gfx0 set as 1st priority and integrated disabled and still nothing no beep also still.

And it is plugged into my psu correctly I've even tried different pci-e leads and nothing.

It is plugged into my monitor via dvi as are my integrated graphics and I've tried through vga but nothing, and my monitor is auto detecting which is plugged it.

 

[AEracer7]

I just got my new card from newegg back today. Painless rma process . Anyways it works great with one exception; every time I make a bios change, I must remove and then reinsert the card from the PCI-E x16 slot. Any ideas on this?

With the exception of that issue it works great.

 

[AEracer7]

It seems like every other time i start my pc even with no changes I must remove and reinsert my card any ideas? This can be quite annoying at times.