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IceHism

United States1903 Posts

July 19 2015 18:54 GMT

#10221

On July 20 2015 03:40 plasmidghost wrote:
Okay, the computer itself is working fine. I put in the Windows install disc, and nothing's appearing on my monitor. What would be the cause of that?

Does text appear fine on the monitor before you put in the windows disc

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

July 19 2015 18:55 GMT

#10222

On July 20 2015 03:54 IceHism wrote:

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Does text appear fine on the monitor before you put in the windows disc

No, nothing appears

Deleuze

United Kingdom2102 Posts

July 19 2015 19:03 GMT

#10223

On July 20 2015 03:55 plasmidghost wrote:

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No, nothing appears

Is the monitor plugged into your graphics card or the motherboard? Swap it to the motherboard and then reboot.

IceHism

United States1903 Posts

July 19 2015 19:03 GMT

#10224

On July 20 2015 03:55 plasmidghost wrote:

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No, nothing appears

Either the monitor isn't working or your computer is using the discreet graphics card instead of the integrated one

Shield

Bulgaria4824 Posts

July 19 2015 19:16 GMT

#10225

On July 20 2015 04:03 IceHism wrote:

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Either the monitor isn't working or your computer is using the discreet graphics card instead of the integrated one

Why would that be a problem? Integrated GPU is still a GPU.

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

July 19 2015 19:16 GMT

#10226

I used a 100% working monitor and it still isn't showing anything. How do I get the graphics card to work?

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

July 19 2015 19:25 GMT

#10227

Could it be that the external display is coming off the graphics card? It says it takes DL-DVI, HDMI, and DP, and I'm not using any of those.

IceHism

United States1903 Posts

July 19 2015 19:44 GMT

#10228

On July 20 2015 04:16 darkness wrote:

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Why would that be a problem? Integrated GPU is still a GPU.

Sometimes i see this symptom and i usually just say to install windows on the iGPU and then get the drivers for the card.
I'm not sure why the comp isn't recognizing it.

On July 20 2015 04:25 plasmidghost wrote:
Could it be that the external display is coming off the graphics card? It says it takes DL-DVI, HDMI, and DP, and I'm not using any of those.

on second thought, this might be why

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

July 19 2015 20:22 GMT

#10229

That was the issue, I searched and found that to fix the problem, I'll have to change the motherboard settings at boot. Doing so won't make my graphics card useless, right?

Deleuze

United Kingdom2102 Posts

July 19 2015 20:24 GMT

#10230

On July 20 2015 05:22 plasmidghost wrote:
That was the issue, I searched and found that to fix the problem, I'll have to change the motherboard settings at boot. Doing so won't make my graphics card useless, right?

Would it be quicker just to change which port you've plugged to monitor into?

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

July 19 2015 20:39 GMT

#10231

On July 20 2015 05:24 Deleuze wrote:

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Would it be quicker just to change which port you've plugged to monitor into?

My graphics card doesn't have a VGA port

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

July 19 2015 20:54 GMT

#10232

I'm installing my drivers off a disc and it's been stuck at 99% for about 15 minutes, should I take out the disc and try a reinstall?

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

July 19 2015 21:31 GMT

#10233

Wow, the boot up time with an SSD from pressing the power button to password screen is like 5 seconds

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

July 19 2015 23:02 GMT

#10234

Everything is done for my computer and I am currently getting all my games installed!

y0su

Finland7871 Posts

July 20 2015 00:02 GMT

#10235

On July 20 2015 08:02 plasmidghost wrote:
Everything is done for my computer and I am currently getting all my games installed!

The first time running a game at higher settings on a new self built rig is awesome :D

felisconcolori

United States6168 Posts

July 20 2015 00:33 GMT

#10236

You might also want to check around for some tweaks for general performance (there's a link somewhere in the original post, I think, to a decent lot of them) but on a new system with an SSD, the only thing I did was make sure Windows wasn't going to be stupid about trying to defrag an SSD and the system just hums along fine.

Congrats on the build, a little bumpy but you got there and now it's time for some sweet sweet gaming.

Cyro

United Kingdom20323 Posts

July 20 2015 00:57 GMT

#10237

On July 20 2015 05:39 plasmidghost wrote:

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My graphics card doesn't have a VGA port

Well your screen needs to be plugged into your GPU otherwise you can't use the GPU AFAIK. If you have a screen that only uses VGA, you should probably replace it - that was out of date around a decade ago (my first 1920x1200 dvi screen was ~2007-2008 and i was not ahead of the curve). If you don't want to do that, you can use a dvi-i to vga adapter.

B.I.G.

3251 Posts

July 20 2015 03:35 GMT

#10238

I had exactly the same issue plasmid. Everything was working but nothing on screen. For others that might face this issue: as soon as you install a graphics card your motherboard will stop using its internal graphics, rendering any ports for monitors on your motherboard useless.

I bought a 2 euro vga to dvi converter and fixed the issue.

B.I.G.

3251 Posts

July 20 2015 04:19 GMT

#10239

Also a question: I'm in the habit of (after correctly shutting down the PC through start -> shut down) flipping of the CPU switch and unplugging. This is mainly because I still am a little bit weary of having bought fakes (I'm in China) and it somehow shorting out or the chinese power grid messing up somehow.

Any point to doing that? Harmless or harmful? I also think it's weird how the lights on my mouse keep burning even after I turn of the PC

plasmidghost

Belgium16168 Posts

July 20 2015 04:29 GMT

#10240

Unfortunately, I only have access to a 1366x768 monitor for the foreseeable future (out of money). I tried out Dota 2 and it looks like I'm lagging despite everything being up to date. Would it be because of the monitor?