Graphics Card DOA?

Dewbie

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May 10, 2016
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Hello, so last night I built my computer and all went smoothly the first time I booted up. Everything was working, all the fans were spinning. When I finally loaded into my desktop, I went to device manager and looked for my graphics card. It just showed the integrated graphics and so I wasn't too worried and so I did a huge windows update and after it still didn't work. So then I tried installing the driver and when I ran the program, the driver could not find any card so at this point I'm a little worried. I then turned off my computer and rechecked all of the cables and I found out both the 6 and 8 pin vga cables werent plugged in all the way so I plugged them both in and I tried booting up again. This time, the fans began to spin and then they stopped shortly after they began and I believe my computer began to boot cycle.
I also tried taking out the gpu and I easily booted into my main desktop. Anyone diagnosis this? I think it's either a bad gpu or maybe a pcie slot. I've tried all I can think of and I can't seem to figure it out.

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