970a-G43 motherboard. No picture.

[618bm4c79]

Hello, just got done building a pc with a 970a-G43 motherboard. AMD Phenom x4 965. 8GB RAM 1600. Radeon R9-290 4GB Graphic card. XFX 850 watt PSU. Everything is hooked up correctly. Went to boot and have no picture signal. I thought the MSI board would've automatically detected the MSI Radeon card. Do I need to load MSI motherboard software first or OS first? I tried the OS first. Any answers???

 

[terry4536]

You would load the motherboard drivers first.


Here are two check lists on this topic.

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1893016/post-system-boot-video-output-troubleshooting-checklist.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2041564/troubleshoot-boot-display-issue.html

 

[terry4536]

Make sure that the BIOS is the latest version at the manufacturer website. It can cause an incompatibility with the graphics drivers.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Hello, just got done building a pc with a 970a-G43 motherboard. AMD Phenom x4 965. 8GB RAM 1600. Radeon R9-290 4GB Graphic card. XFX 850 watt PSU. Everything is hooked up correctly. Went to boot and have no picture signal. I thought the MSI board would've automatically detected the MSI Radeon card. Do I need to load MSI motherboard software first or OS first? I tried the OS first. Any answers???

That board would have a compatible BIOS already , and it should have recognized the card.

TRY clearing the CMOS.

 

[618bm4c79]

Eh, I'm an idiot...I should've just started it with no disc in it first. Did that, BIOS setup loaded right up. Thanks for the answers though. Great website.