Hello all. Here is a wall of text describing my problem.
I've been gifted a PC I helped a friend build a while back. Even while he loved the desktop, and it worked incredibly well, he got a new computer when the PSU died, and he kindly gifted me the older PC in question. His old one had a dead PSU, so I had to go buy a new one. Once I got the new one, I used it for a day(including benchmarking and gaming and everything went swimmingly. It(the new PSU) died the next day as well(CPU power failed) and I had to RMA the unit. I just got it back today, and re-assembled the PC, when I ran into a painful problem. The new PSU was working(all of the fans and the hard drive span up, including the slight coil whine of the graphics card) but I was not getting any video from the graphics card or from the APU when I removed the dedicated card. I went ahead and replaced the CMOS battery because it had been in there for a year and a half, and removed the GPU, and everything was working fine when I started using the APU again. I figured, okay, I'll plug the dedicated card back in. No video. I figured my motherboard was trying to force dual graphics for my card and my APU(which does not support my card in crossfire), so I went in and turned the integrated GPU from Auto(which either turns on dual graphics or does nothing) to disabled, and plugged my card back in, I received no video, even when I tried to switch back to the internal GPU.
I have removed and reinserted the CMOS battery yet again resetting the motherboard to its defaults. I am currently using the APU's graphical output to make sure everything else on the computer is working, and everything appears to be working PERFECTLY.
If anyone could help me figure out what is wrong with my graphics card(or the rest of my system, if the problem doesn't reside there) I would be extremely greatful.
Here are the specifications for my current system:
AMD A10-5800K
MSI A88X-E45 Motherboard
Powercolor AMD Radeon R9 270X PCS+ Edition
PNY XLR8 1600MHz RAM
EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze PSU
2TB Seagate HDD
I've been gifted a PC I helped a friend build a while back. Even while he loved the desktop, and it worked incredibly well, he got a new computer when the PSU died, and he kindly gifted me the older PC in question. His old one had a dead PSU, so I had to go buy a new one. Once I got the new one, I used it for a day(including benchmarking and gaming and everything went swimmingly. It(the new PSU) died the next day as well(CPU power failed) and I had to RMA the unit. I just got it back today, and re-assembled the PC, when I ran into a painful problem. The new PSU was working(all of the fans and the hard drive span up, including the slight coil whine of the graphics card) but I was not getting any video from the graphics card or from the APU when I removed the dedicated card. I went ahead and replaced the CMOS battery because it had been in there for a year and a half, and removed the GPU, and everything was working fine when I started using the APU again. I figured, okay, I'll plug the dedicated card back in. No video. I figured my motherboard was trying to force dual graphics for my card and my APU(which does not support my card in crossfire), so I went in and turned the integrated GPU from Auto(which either turns on dual graphics or does nothing) to disabled, and plugged my card back in, I received no video, even when I tried to switch back to the internal GPU.
I have removed and reinserted the CMOS battery yet again resetting the motherboard to its defaults. I am currently using the APU's graphical output to make sure everything else on the computer is working, and everything appears to be working PERFECTLY.
If anyone could help me figure out what is wrong with my graphics card(or the rest of my system, if the problem doesn't reside there) I would be extremely greatful.
Here are the specifications for my current system:
AMD A10-5800K
MSI A88X-E45 Motherboard
Powercolor AMD Radeon R9 270X PCS+ Edition
PNY XLR8 1600MHz RAM
EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze PSU
2TB Seagate HDD
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