Graphics Card/ PCI-E slot issue?

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Alex Hurr

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To start off first post here, please be patient with my formatting please :). I recently purchased a pre-built computer but choosing the components myself (i know a bit about hardware but not trusting enough in myself to build my own rig yet). It was delivered yesterday and all that jazz, i was happily installing programs and it just turned itself off, now i just really think anything of it just turned it back on and the resolution was all pixelated and you probably get the idea, trying to change my taskbar and resultion back to the way it was came up with a message saying "this video driver is not compatible with aero settings" so i went and opened my graphics card software that was installed and it scanned and couldnt find any local hardware compatible with the software, so i checked my motherboard via bios settings and it said my PCI-E 3.0 slot was empty but my graphics card was plugged in and secured in, after turning it off and on again i noticed the fans in the graphics card were spinning but only 2-5 times every 20 seconds and i immediately knew something was wrong so i re-seated the card and got the same problem as before. for referance my motherboard is the MSI B85M-E45 and the graphics card is the Nvida geforce gtx 970, sorry for a long post and thanks in advance for all help.
 
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the graphics card is a nvidia geforce gtx 970, and yes everything is plugged in, all the power cords and whatnot
 
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You should get a tier 1 or 2 power supply for your PC per http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html#xtor=EPR-8886

Did you test before putting the OS on? If so was it pixelated then?

Is it pixelated if you disconnect the OS drive? Does it post - load bios then?

Try another monitor cable - make sure its plugged in 100% and to andf from the correct ports eg don't mix DVI-I with DVI-D

Try another monitor

try another graphics card - make sure its locked into the first pcie slot and the power supply connectors are 100% attached.
 
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i will defiantly get a better power source but it was all i could afford at the time

wasn't pixilated (low resolution, should of worded better) when i first loaded it up. like i said it was fine and working 100% for about the first hour i had it and then it just crashed

the os and everything was pre-loaded on, tried different monitors, hdmi/vga/dvi cables

im going to get an older graphics card and try it tomorrow (its 1 am here)
 
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