Botched GPU upgrade.

[gamenoob11]

A while ago I finally decided to upgrade my ancient gtx 9800+. To make a long story short I remembered I forgot to uninstall the drivers and forgot to unplug and discharge. So as I was plugging the DVI back in there was too much static and there was a discharge that burnt the card out. So I upgraded anyway and maybe I didn't have the power connected right but when I connected it to my tv via HDMI It received no signal.
http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c01386878 || Here's my ancient PC. The only difference is I think I have 8gb not 4gb of RAM.
Pls help ;-; Also my upgrade is the R9 285. In case it matters.

 

[cdrkf]

A while ago I finally decided to upgrade my ancient gtx 9800+. To make a long story short I remembered I forgot to uninstall the drivers and forgot to unplug and discharge. So as I was plugging the DVI back in there was too much static and there was a discharge that burnt the card out. So I upgraded anyway and maybe I didn't have the power connected right but when I connected it to my tv via HDMI It received no signal.
http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c01386878 || Here's my ancient PC. The only difference is I think I have 8gb not 4gb of RAM.
Pls help ;-; Also my upgrade is the R9 285. In case it matters.

If the spec you linked is correct you only have a 350w psu... that isn't going to be enough for an R9 285 (I'm amazed it was enough for a GTX 9800 to be honest)..

That may be your problem, from my experience it isn't *that* easy to fry a card although I guess it's possible.

 

[gamenoob11]

A while ago I finally decided to upgrade my ancient gtx 9800+. To make a long story short I remembered I forgot to uninstall the drivers and forgot to unplug and discharge. So as I was plugging the DVI back in there was too much static and there was a discharge that burnt the card out. So I upgraded anyway and maybe I didn't have the power connected right but when I connected it to my tv via HDMI It received no signal.
http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c01386878 || Here's my ancient PC. The only difference is I think I have 8gb not 4gb of RAM.
Pls help ;-; Also my upgrade is the R9 285. In case it matters.

If the spec you linked is correct you only have a 350w psu... that isn't going to be enough for an R9 285 (I'm amazed it was enough for a GTX 9800 to be honest)..

That may be your problem, from my experience it isn't *that* easy to fry a card although I guess it's possible.

For the purpose of progress, let's assume that the system had a large enough power supply.

 

[coozie7]

Does the system try to boot-fans run, you get the single POST beep, lights come on?
If it's trying to boot, it may just be a cable issue, I've run into problems with DVI cables before so can you use HDMI/VGA instead?

 

[gamenoob11]

Ok so I took out the power supply and its a 500w. And I did try using HDMI. Lights came on nothing seemed wrong other than the signal/GPU. Didn't mess around with anything else.