Last night I installed a new power supply (Coolermaster RS-500-PCAR) and a new graphics card (Radeon HD 6770) into my desktop PC (eMachines ET1831-07). I made sure to uninstall the drivers from the old graphics card first and everything went smoothly. I installed the drivers for the new card and, after making sure everything was fine, went to bed.
This morning I attempted to play Skyrim, but after a few minutes into the game, the computer shut itself off. It did this a couple of times, so I opened up the computer again and checked everything out. Turns out what I thought was an old graphics card (because it was on the same level as the monitor port like all the tutorials have said so far and I didn't realize I had a ) was the heatsink for the processor. So I put it back in exactly the way it was before I took it out and it works fine when I turn the computer on.
Only now I can't get a signal to my monitor. Neither the port for the new graphics card nor the port for the integrated graphics card is giving a signal, but when I plug the monitor into my laptop, for example, it gets a signal just fine. I checked to make sure everything is securely plugged in to the right places and that the graphics card and RAM and everything is firmly slotted in. So what gives? Should I just take it into a computer repair place? I'm beginning to suspect that I have no idea what I'm doing (please be gentle).
This morning I attempted to play Skyrim, but after a few minutes into the game, the computer shut itself off. It did this a couple of times, so I opened up the computer again and checked everything out. Turns out what I thought was an old graphics card (because it was on the same level as the monitor port like all the tutorials have said so far and I didn't realize I had a ) was the heatsink for the processor. So I put it back in exactly the way it was before I took it out and it works fine when I turn the computer on.
Only now I can't get a signal to my monitor. Neither the port for the new graphics card nor the port for the integrated graphics card is giving a signal, but when I plug the monitor into my laptop, for example, it gets a signal just fine. I checked to make sure everything is securely plugged in to the right places and that the graphics card and RAM and everything is firmly slotted in. So what gives? Should I just take it into a computer repair place? I'm beginning to suspect that I have no idea what I'm doing (please be gentle).