I have a number of new components.
Antec P280 case with stock fans
ASRock X97 Extreme6 motherboard with latest FW as of yesterday
Intel i5-4790K CPU
Cooler Master 212 Evo CPU cooler
Crucial Ballistix 2x4GB DDR3-1600 RAM
Antec Earthwatts 750 Bronze PSU
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card
2 256GB Corsair SSDs in RAID 1, connected to SATA 3_0_3
Win 7 Enterprise
Everything works fine until I put the graphics card in (i.e. booting from integrated MB DVI port). When the MSI 280 is in, the system never completes boot (the on-board code is typically 62 (or is that b2?), and my monitor (connected by DVD) flashes the amber light (as if it's powered on, but not connected to a powered on system) and never shows green (as it does when it's connected to a working system). The above is true whether I've connected the monitor to the MSI Radeon, or to the on-board DVI port.
What I've done:
1) Made sure that the Molex connector is connected to the motherboard
2) Made sure that the PS's connectors for the graphics card are both connected.
3) Tried using the alternate power connection from PS to graphics card (a second modular plug on the PS (designed, I suppose, for Crossfire))
4) Tried unplugging all other connections (other than PCI/graphics card, CPU, RAM and power/reset/HDD light) from the motherboard -- all USB, disk, sound, etc.
5) Put everything back together and substituted an old NVidia 790GS graphics card, with which the system booted fine.
I never seem to get any signal on the monitor with the MSI Radeon R9 280 installed. Is there something 'dumb' I'm overlooking, something not-dumb I haven't thought of, or does it sound like the graphics card is bad?
thanks,
thomas.
Antec P280 case with stock fans
ASRock X97 Extreme6 motherboard with latest FW as of yesterday
Intel i5-4790K CPU
Cooler Master 212 Evo CPU cooler
Crucial Ballistix 2x4GB DDR3-1600 RAM
Antec Earthwatts 750 Bronze PSU
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card
2 256GB Corsair SSDs in RAID 1, connected to SATA 3_0_3
Win 7 Enterprise
Everything works fine until I put the graphics card in (i.e. booting from integrated MB DVI port). When the MSI 280 is in, the system never completes boot (the on-board code is typically 62 (or is that b2?), and my monitor (connected by DVD) flashes the amber light (as if it's powered on, but not connected to a powered on system) and never shows green (as it does when it's connected to a working system). The above is true whether I've connected the monitor to the MSI Radeon, or to the on-board DVI port.
What I've done:
1) Made sure that the Molex connector is connected to the motherboard
2) Made sure that the PS's connectors for the graphics card are both connected.
3) Tried using the alternate power connection from PS to graphics card (a second modular plug on the PS (designed, I suppose, for Crossfire))
4) Tried unplugging all other connections (other than PCI/graphics card, CPU, RAM and power/reset/HDD light) from the motherboard -- all USB, disk, sound, etc.
5) Put everything back together and substituted an old NVidia 790GS graphics card, with which the system booted fine.
I never seem to get any signal on the monitor with the MSI Radeon R9 280 installed. Is there something 'dumb' I'm overlooking, something not-dumb I haven't thought of, or does it sound like the graphics card is bad?
thanks,
thomas.
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