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Its a hdmi cable as well

graphics card

Hello everyone, I finished building my first PC and now I am playing my first PC game DAO. My motherboard had an on board graphics card and I purchased a xfx radeon HD 4850 to upgrade, however when I config the game graphics I can only go up to 1680 x 1050. Does this mean that my computer is not...

Awesome, I just called new egg, sounds like I'm in good shape to get some new parts.

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I am having some problems with my computer build parts and was unable to identify exactly what was wrong, I would like to return the motherboard, the cpu, the graphics card, and the ram and get new ones because I am still under the 30 day warranty at new egg. Will New Egg allow that? and...

Thanks, I will take the parts back and rebuild under my uncles supervision just to make sure I didn't do something wrong.

I agree with that assessment, you caught one of my problems earlier I didn't have the 8-pin power connector plugged in but it still didn't work. I think now that the mobo is defective seeing as how I saw smoke coming out of it when I was talking over the phone with a customer service guy...

Typo: I almost died after seeing that

I was just horrified by my experience building a computer. I had everything right according to the manual and the customer service people i spoke too but nothing would show up on my monitor. I checked the beeps and the customer service guy said something was wrong with my motherboard, after...

I tried the method above ^ but I was not able to get it to work

Thanks for letting me know, I have to attach the hdmi to the port in my graphic card? Because I already attached my hdmi to the port on the motherboard. **thanks for putting up with these dumb questions, I don't know much thats why I need your help**

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Darn!!! somebody from this site recommended that graphics card when I had chosen another so I decided to go with it instead of my previous choice, thanks for the help I will send the card back.(hopefully they will accept)

Yes I just reviewed that, my graphics card is in just fine, my cpu is in the right way and plugged in to the power connector on mobo, i tried on ram stick and then 2, and power is going to all my components.