- Aug 26, 2011
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Hi all, I know I recently made a post about having up to 3 displays on my 6870 card, but I made that thread as I was just interested because I was getting the card on that evening.
The card was a Powercolor 6870 1GB. I installed it into the PCI slot on the mobo (Gigabyte G880GM-UD2H), connected the PSU to the card and fired up my pc.
I installed all the drivers from the disc and opened up Skyrim. It played through the opening cinematic until I could walk around, as I was walking I seen that the mouse sensitivity was low, so I decided to hit escape and change it. I increased the mouse sensitivity and hit escape again, only to be greeted by a black screen. I could hear the game running in the background, there was just no video.
I powered off the pc by holding in the power button and connected it to my upstairs tv via VGA. (DVI to VGA adapter on the pc, then into VGA input on tv.) Once again, I opened up Skyrim, only to find that whenever I loaded it, I was met with the same black screen.
I thought that maybe it was the mouse, so I changed the mouse to a different one. Same problem.
I tried a different game, Minecraft. Surely that game didn't have much to run? But, the same black screen appeared.
I have checked the fans, plugged the mouse into different usb slots (just in case) and even tried booting it without the case's side panels on. But I still receive the same black screen.
Before installing the graphics card, games like Minecraft ran fine with the integrated graphics from the Motherboard.
I'm totally lost now. If anyone can help me out I would be most thankful. My specs are listed below.
MOBO: Gigabyte G880GM-UD2H
GPU: Powercolor AMD Radeon 6870 1GB
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
CPU Cooler: Stock cooler
PSU: WinPower ATX 750w (ever heard of it? sounds like a no-name brand. is this causing my issues? i didn't have alot to spend and it had some good reviews on amazon so..)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
Once again, thanks in advance. Need urgent help!
The card was a Powercolor 6870 1GB. I installed it into the PCI slot on the mobo (Gigabyte G880GM-UD2H), connected the PSU to the card and fired up my pc.
I installed all the drivers from the disc and opened up Skyrim. It played through the opening cinematic until I could walk around, as I was walking I seen that the mouse sensitivity was low, so I decided to hit escape and change it. I increased the mouse sensitivity and hit escape again, only to be greeted by a black screen. I could hear the game running in the background, there was just no video.
I powered off the pc by holding in the power button and connected it to my upstairs tv via VGA. (DVI to VGA adapter on the pc, then into VGA input on tv.) Once again, I opened up Skyrim, only to find that whenever I loaded it, I was met with the same black screen.
I thought that maybe it was the mouse, so I changed the mouse to a different one. Same problem.
I tried a different game, Minecraft. Surely that game didn't have much to run? But, the same black screen appeared.
I have checked the fans, plugged the mouse into different usb slots (just in case) and even tried booting it without the case's side panels on. But I still receive the same black screen.
Before installing the graphics card, games like Minecraft ran fine with the integrated graphics from the Motherboard.
I'm totally lost now. If anyone can help me out I would be most thankful. My specs are listed below.
MOBO: Gigabyte G880GM-UD2H
GPU: Powercolor AMD Radeon 6870 1GB
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
CPU Cooler: Stock cooler
PSU: WinPower ATX 750w (ever heard of it? sounds like a no-name brand. is this causing my issues? i didn't have alot to spend and it had some good reviews on amazon so..)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
Once again, thanks in advance. Need urgent help!
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