So, i decided to upgrade my old graphics card that has been a few years old by today and bought a 4090 founders edition.
Today, i got around taking my pc off the wall to swap the cards. Sadly i was greeted with .. a black screen. I did follow many advices on the internet (youtube) .. i rammed the plug into the card as hard as possible, connected all 4 connectors that fit to the card and tried booting up.
What did i see?
- same thing again, but this time the screens complained about "no signal"
upon rebooting, i get one of the above ... windows does load up (i hear the little jingles) but no picture.
All the while, the GPU seems fine by itself .. it lights up and the fan swings.
I then managed to sometimes get a picture!! .. when i disconnected 1 cable (so only 3 cables are attached to the GPU) .. i can boot into windows WITH a picture, but it looks odd.
Long story short, i swapped back to my old GPU for now, a little disappointed that it seemed a lot harder to upgrade to a 4090 than it was before to other GPUs.
My system:
edit: oh, and the pc is hanging off the wall in a thermaltake case (the one that you can hang on the wall.. Core P or 3 or something, i forgot) - the GPU is sitting on a rising cable that is slotted into the top PCI slot .. if that does anything to how the card should work.
When i did have a picture in windows, i checked if the GPU was recognized.
I also ran 3d mark .. or tried to. It loaded up the benchmark ... and gave me a zero because the whole PC froze for a few seconds, terminating the benchmark test.
Today, i got around taking my pc off the wall to swap the cards. Sadly i was greeted with .. a black screen. I did follow many advices on the internet (youtube) .. i rammed the plug into the card as hard as possible, connected all 4 connectors that fit to the card and tried booting up.
What did i see?
- the splash screen (AMD logo) looked normal
- windows did boot up, but oddly instead of the blue window with the dots going in a circle, it was the window with a ring underneath (looked a bit squished, too)
- afterwards, i did hear windows logging in .. and various programs opening up .. but my screen remained black (backlit, but black) - it did not complain about not having a signal
- same thing again, but this time the screens complained about "no signal"
upon rebooting, i get one of the above ... windows does load up (i hear the little jingles) but no picture.
All the while, the GPU seems fine by itself .. it lights up and the fan swings.
I then managed to sometimes get a picture!! .. when i disconnected 1 cable (so only 3 cables are attached to the GPU) .. i can boot into windows WITH a picture, but it looks odd.
- the desktop STARTS in a very low resolution (HUGE icons) .. but snaps back to my default resolution 1440 momentarily.
- i opened youtube .. and the videos defaulted to a very low resolution (480p) .. and also ran choppy. In fact, the entire computer ran choppy .. with programs not wanting to start and freezes all the time
- after a short while, it crashed and rebooted (again, sometimes with, sometimes without picture)
Long story short, i swapped back to my old GPU for now, a little disappointed that it seemed a lot harder to upgrade to a 4090 than it was before to other GPUs.
My system:
- windows 11
- Ryzen 3700x ( i think )
- Seasonic Connect 750 PSU
- 4x 8 GB Corsair Dominator Platinum Ram (i think i run it at 3200)
- boot system is on a Samsung m.2 SSD
- 2 Monitors attached
edit: oh, and the pc is hanging off the wall in a thermaltake case (the one that you can hang on the wall.. Core P or 3 or something, i forgot) - the GPU is sitting on a rising cable that is slotted into the top PCI slot .. if that does anything to how the card should work.
When i did have a picture in windows, i checked if the GPU was recognized.
- device manager can see it
- Speccy and HWmanager can identify it correctly
- Nvidia experience wanted me to install a driver update (which i did) - and recognized the card correctly
I also ran 3d mark .. or tried to. It loaded up the benchmark ... and gave me a zero because the whole PC froze for a few seconds, terminating the benchmark test.