Recent content by BDwayne

BTW I keep getting this error when installing: C:\Program Files\ATI\CIM\Reports\Report.xml Have no idea what it means Existing packages AMD APP SDK Runtime HDMI Audio Driver Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable HydraVision AMD Accelerated Video Transcoding Catalyst Control Center...

Ok it is strange.. I might have had a good advancement--maybe. I am now finally able to get video from the mother board while the new card is in the slot. Before I couldn't even get video that way. While I was trying the legacy boot option and was still not getting video, I out of frustration...

Thanks to everyone for trying to help but I have tried everything I can find and nothing works so I give up. I am just going to return it to Amazon. Thanks again.

Ok I've messed up something bad now. I tried following the last suggestion and installed the card and tried using the monitor through the motherboard. This didn't work so I put the old card in and while in bios set integrated video to enable. I put the new card in and it still didn't work. But...

Ok, I might be dumb but I am not sure how to hook the monitor up to the mother board..... unless I do so my taking off these little, plastic black covers on the back of the computer (that are screwed in and say "do not remove" I have no other hook up besides the ones on the graphics cards for a...

Ok quick update- just updated the bios on my computer- still does the same thing. I get no video from the new card but old card still works fine.

Yes the power cables are connected correctly. I have an HP pavillion elite 1050 with 10 gigs of ram 64bt windows 8. I7 2600 cpu 3.4 GHz AMD radeon 6850 (installed which works fine when I put it back in) Gigabyte HD 7970 (installing powers up no video signal) Corsair tx650 psu.

By "top left plug" are you referring to where you plug in the monitor? If so there is only one monitor plug in (on the new card) unless you count the hdmi. Or are you referring to the power supply plugs of which there are two? Thanks Dwayne

Please help. I bought a new Gigabyte hd 7970 to put into my HP elite pavilion 1050 computer. (Windows 8) When it arrived I realized it was not getting power and through google figured out that my power supply (460) was probably not enough because the card demanded at least 500. So I ordered...