Hi, I would appreciate if someone would help me resolve this issue.
I bought XFX R9 280X Double Dissipation to finally upgrade gpu from my old Radeon HD 6850, but upon installing the card and powering up the computer, there's nothing showing up on the monitor except for the floating message 'no display' (monitor works fine when I switch back to my old HD 6850).
I tried searching many other forums and read some suggestions like 'disabling the onboard graphics' and 'updating bios', but I don't think either of them apply to me, because my motherboard does not have an onboard graphics (Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3), and my current bios version is from 2012, which is about 2nd or 3rd newest version on their website.
I don't think PSU is the issue either, because apparently lots of people with 600W OR 550W PSU are using this card just fine.
Main thing I can think of is the power cable that's used for connecting GPU to PSU.
As far as I know, this card needs one 6-pin cable and one 8-pin cable to connect it to PSU, but I had to order one because two cables that came with this card were some extension cables that were utterly useless (for another one, I could use 6+2pin I'm currently using with my old gpu).
Since my PSU only supports 6-pin, I had to find a cable that's either both ends are 6-pin, or one 6-pin and one 8-pin, and most importantly, a male-male cable.
After finally finding a male-male cable from Amazon, I bought it and tried it on, but it wouldn't fit into my PSU because the clip thingy that you have to push when plugging out was too big.
After getting tired of all waiting, I just decided to cut off the clip part with scissors to make it fit and go with it. So now I can plug it in to my PSU, but I'm wondering if that cable is not compatible or something. (does it matter which end of the cable I'm plugging it to PSU?)
This is what I bought:
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http://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Tek-Sleeved-PCI-E-PP06B-PCIE55/dp/B00A45JA52/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418430667&sr=8-1&keywords=pcie+power+cable
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I'm drawing blank of what to do, and what's actually causing this.
Could someone also recommend where/what cable to buy? I mainly tried Amazon and Newegg, but I couldn't really find any male-male power cables.
My pc spec is:
CPU: AMD FX-6100 six-core
Mobo: GA-970A-UD3
PSU: Cooler Master 600W 80+ Bronze
RAM: Vengeance 4GB x 2
1 hard drive 1TB 7200RPM
1 cd drive
I bought XFX R9 280X Double Dissipation to finally upgrade gpu from my old Radeon HD 6850, but upon installing the card and powering up the computer, there's nothing showing up on the monitor except for the floating message 'no display' (monitor works fine when I switch back to my old HD 6850).
I tried searching many other forums and read some suggestions like 'disabling the onboard graphics' and 'updating bios', but I don't think either of them apply to me, because my motherboard does not have an onboard graphics (Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3), and my current bios version is from 2012, which is about 2nd or 3rd newest version on their website.
I don't think PSU is the issue either, because apparently lots of people with 600W OR 550W PSU are using this card just fine.
Main thing I can think of is the power cable that's used for connecting GPU to PSU.
As far as I know, this card needs one 6-pin cable and one 8-pin cable to connect it to PSU, but I had to order one because two cables that came with this card were some extension cables that were utterly useless (for another one, I could use 6+2pin I'm currently using with my old gpu).
Since my PSU only supports 6-pin, I had to find a cable that's either both ends are 6-pin, or one 6-pin and one 8-pin, and most importantly, a male-male cable.
After finally finding a male-male cable from Amazon, I bought it and tried it on, but it wouldn't fit into my PSU because the clip thingy that you have to push when plugging out was too big.
After getting tired of all waiting, I just decided to cut off the clip part with scissors to make it fit and go with it. So now I can plug it in to my PSU, but I'm wondering if that cable is not compatible or something. (does it matter which end of the cable I'm plugging it to PSU?)
This is what I bought:
----------
http://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Tek-Sleeved-PCI-E-PP06B-PCIE55/dp/B00A45JA52/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418430667&sr=8-1&keywords=pcie+power+cable
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I'm drawing blank of what to do, and what's actually causing this.
Could someone also recommend where/what cable to buy? I mainly tried Amazon and Newegg, but I couldn't really find any male-male power cables.
My pc spec is:
CPU: AMD FX-6100 six-core
Mobo: GA-970A-UD3
PSU: Cooler Master 600W 80+ Bronze
RAM: Vengeance 4GB x 2
1 hard drive 1TB 7200RPM
1 cd drive