I bought a used AMD 7850 GPU from craigslist and put it into a prebuilt computer I bought (Dell inspiron 3847) along with a new corsair 430w power supply.
When I booted up the computer with display connected to my graphics card nothing the computer powered on but the monitor said there was no signal. I then connected the display to the motherboards hdmi port and it told me that I was trying to connect to a disabled port and that I needed to connect my monitor to the port on the installed discrete GPU. I shut everything off and took out the GPU and turned the computer on again with the monitor still plugged into the motherboard hdmi port. It turned on and displayed on the monitor just fine after that.
Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?
On a side note when I opened the box my graphics card came it I noticed it was very poorly packaged so I have a suspicion that it might have been damaged during transport. However the fact that the monitor was able to detect there was a GPU connected and asked me to connect my cable to that port makes me wonder if that is the case. Also the fans on the GPU are spinning.
pls help.
When I booted up the computer with display connected to my graphics card nothing the computer powered on but the monitor said there was no signal. I then connected the display to the motherboards hdmi port and it told me that I was trying to connect to a disabled port and that I needed to connect my monitor to the port on the installed discrete GPU. I shut everything off and took out the GPU and turned the computer on again with the monitor still plugged into the motherboard hdmi port. It turned on and displayed on the monitor just fine after that.
Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?
On a side note when I opened the box my graphics card came it I noticed it was very poorly packaged so I have a suspicion that it might have been damaged during transport. However the fact that the monitor was able to detect there was a GPU connected and asked me to connect my cable to that port makes me wonder if that is the case. Also the fans on the GPU are spinning.
pls help.