mobo doesnt detect GPU

[jungkyu]

I recently wiped my hard drive and reinstalled a windows 7. My gpu was detected once and it worked but once I restarted my computer after installing a bunch of drivers the mobo wouldn't detect the gpu. Theres nothing in my BIOS and under my device manager it just shows standard VGA graphics adapter under display adapters. It was working for a coupel of days when I got back so I dont think its dead and it might be the drivers.

parts:
H61/U3S3 asrock mobo
i5 2400
1x4gb gskill ddr3 1333 ram
sapphire hd 6870
Seasonic M12II 520 BRONZE psu

 

[rolli59]

That is strange since if the monitor is hooked to the cards outputs it is using it to display! Have you installed the AMD drivers for it? http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/previous/detail?os=Windows%207%20-%2064&rev=15.7.1

 

[jungkyu]

That is strange since if the monitor is hooked to the cards outputs it is using it to display! Have you installed the AMD drivers for it? http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/previous/detail?os=Windows%207%20-%2064&rev=15.7.1

The monitor is hooked up to my motherboard, not the card.

 

[rolli59]

Then the card will not work! Only your onboard.

 

[jungkyu]

I've downloaded the amd drivers but when i connect my hdmi to my gpu I just get black screen. It works fine for onboard hdmi but I just end up using my onboard graphics.

 

[rolli59]

Then it is not detecting the card, I take it PCIe power is connected to the card so I would say try reseating the card and try again.

 

[jungkyu]

Then it is not detecting the card, I take it PCIe power is connected to the card so I would say try reseating the card and try again.

The card is definitely getting power and I've reseated it 3 times. Could the GPU just be dead?

 

[rolli59]

It is possible, stranger things have happened. Can you try it in a different computer. In your BIOS you should be able to select PCIe or PEG as primary display adapter so you could try that as well.

 

[jungkyu]

unfortunately I don't have another computer to use this gpu with nor do I have a spare gpu to test out. I've looked in my bios settings and don't see anything about a primary display adapter.

 

[CDDogg]

I recently wiped my hard drive and reinstalled a windows 7. My gpu was detected once and it worked but once I restarted my computer after installing a bunch of drivers the mobo wouldn't detect the gpu. Theres nothing in my BIOS and under my device manager it just shows standard VGA graphics adapter under display adapters. It was working for a coupel of days when I got back so I dont think its dead and it might be the drivers.

parts:
H61/U3S3 asrock mobo
i5 2400
1x4gb gskill ddr3 1333 ram
sapphire hd 6870
Seasonic M12II 520 BRONZE psu

I had this problem with my first AMD GPU. What you need to do is connect it to the monitor via VGA and run it off ofwindows default drivers first. Then use the install disc that came with the card to load drivers, because the drivers you get from the AMD site don't work for some reason. Only after you've installed everything right and checked DXDIAG and made sure you've got the drivers can you then use HDMI.

 

[jungkyu]

I finally got it to work! I'm not sure how or why but after I used the CD from sapphire for my GPU I used the dvi instead of hdmi to my gpu and it detected it. I managed to reinstall the newest drivers from amd because it was finally detected and now its working perfectly.