Video Card Help

[coolstorybro69]

Hey All,

Was just putting together a new build and everything else seems to be working right except for the Video Card.

My Specs:

i5-2500K
Biostar H61 Motherboard
Kingston 8GB RAM
Kingston 2x64gb SSD (128GB Total)
Galaxy GTX 460 GC 768mb
Antec "Hardcore Gamer" 400w PSU

Basically, I've updated every single driver, windows update, and bios and my computer just doesn't detect my video card.

I'm assuming it's the

Motherboard or PSU

the reason I assume its those two is because I plugged in an older 9600GT and it didn't detect that either.

Both the 9600GT and GTX 460 fans spin when plugged in. The 9600GT requires one 6-pin pci-e adapter the gtx 460 two.

Any thoughts?

Maybe I should pick up a 500w Corsair Builder Series? or Exchange the Motherboard?

Thanks for any help in advance, I really just want to finish this build already.

 

[MTDEW]

We need a bit more info.
Is the video card showing up in device manager?

If its just because you're hooking the monitor up the video cards output and not getting video, that could simply be because you're not disabling the "onboard" video in the bios first.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Check your BIOS settings, if they are set for the onboard first or the PCI-E slot first.

Also try plugging your monitor into the onboard.

In the extreme case, your PCI-E slot might be bad, or perhaps the CPU (since the PCI-E links for the GPU are on-die on the CPU these days), or maybe you bent some of the CPU socket pins when installing the CPU? Might want to check that too.