I just bought an R9 280X on ebay (I know, probably my first mistake). I hooked it up to my machine, and I get no display. I don't get the motherboard splash or anything. The fans on the card turn on, but no display. I hear the hard drives spinning up, so I believe that the computer is posting, but I have no video what-so-ever to confirm that. I always found the beep at post annoying, so I never hooked up the speaker on this build. My system specs are as follows:
Motherboard: MSI 970A-G43
Processor: FX 4300
PSU: EVGA SuperNova 1000w 80+ gold
RAM: Patriot Viper 1600 Mhz
GPU: Sapphire HD 6870 currently
Sapphire R9 280X trying to get working
SSD: Micron 128 GB
HDDs: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB
Western Digital Caviar Blue 3TB
So, for the things I have tried. First off, I have the HD 6870 connected, and it works fine, so I know it's not the pcie slot I have verified that the power connectors from the power supply are seated well. I was sure to use two separate pcie power connectrors from the PSU. I have seated and reseated and seated the card again for good measure. I flashed my bios to the most current version available, which was released March 28, 2013. I have tried booting with the bios switch on the card in both positions. I even tried putting the HD 6870 in my primary pcie slot with the 280x in the secondary, and booted up that way. I ran CPU-Z and it didn't see the card. I was using primarily HDMI plugged into my TV, though I did test some with the DVI using a converter to VGA on a monitor. I don't have an actual DVI cable, and I did read that there are some issues with the card not displaying correctly if there isn't a proper handshake between the card and the display, is anyone aware of this problem? Does anyone have any other suggestions?
I also put the 280x in an acer aspire m3470g, and got the same results. I am thinking the card was damaged in shipping or something to that effect, but before I pay for return shipping and having to wait for a refund, I wanted to get advice from all of you guys. Thanks.
Motherboard: MSI 970A-G43
Processor: FX 4300
PSU: EVGA SuperNova 1000w 80+ gold
RAM: Patriot Viper 1600 Mhz
GPU: Sapphire HD 6870 currently
Sapphire R9 280X trying to get working
SSD: Micron 128 GB
HDDs: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB
Western Digital Caviar Blue 3TB
So, for the things I have tried. First off, I have the HD 6870 connected, and it works fine, so I know it's not the pcie slot I have verified that the power connectors from the power supply are seated well. I was sure to use two separate pcie power connectrors from the PSU. I have seated and reseated and seated the card again for good measure. I flashed my bios to the most current version available, which was released March 28, 2013. I have tried booting with the bios switch on the card in both positions. I even tried putting the HD 6870 in my primary pcie slot with the 280x in the secondary, and booted up that way. I ran CPU-Z and it didn't see the card. I was using primarily HDMI plugged into my TV, though I did test some with the DVI using a converter to VGA on a monitor. I don't have an actual DVI cable, and I did read that there are some issues with the card not displaying correctly if there isn't a proper handshake between the card and the display, is anyone aware of this problem? Does anyone have any other suggestions?
I also put the 280x in an acer aspire m3470g, and got the same results. I am thinking the card was damaged in shipping or something to that effect, but before I pay for return shipping and having to wait for a refund, I wanted to get advice from all of you guys. Thanks.