I was told to go to a Gigabyte forum after trying to fix the issue in other computer forums.
I wanted to add something to this post. My son just told me that when he puts the video card in that everything boots up, pc, fans start running and everything. But the motherboard does not detect the video card and then automatically switches over to the on board graphics. This is helpful to know.
Here is my earlier Post/Question
I am not sure where this would go. It can actually fit into a few categories I think. Here goes! My son is building a gaming computer as a gift from me for his B-day almost 2 years ago now. He already had a pc so basically he is making it better, a lot better. He needed only a few items. I bought the items he wanted that he said to buy and would be compatible with his computer and the other parts bought. All parts were bought by Newegg.com. Like I said this project began about a year and a half ago and we still cannot get his pc up and running. No one seems to know what the issue is including his father who use to put computers together. Can you please help us? Please tell me if what parts I bought and what he already has are compatible or not? And also, his question is, is the Motherboard 100% compatible with the video card? If not, what do I need to get? If they are compatible or should be, what do you think the problem may be? Please, please, help us! I will begin by giving you a list below of what his computer already has. Then I will give you a second list of what I bought for it.
Now I will tell you what happened when he tried putting it altogether. Troubles seem to begin from the beginning when the video card wouldn't work. Which was the very first item we bought. It worked in his fathers computer just fine. The only thing different his father claimed was that he had a better power supply than him. So we bought a better power supply. It didn't work. So he thought that maybe the power supply still wasn't good enough or compatible so I then bought an even better power supply. This one all his friends have working in their pc's with no problems. Their computer's hardware and software and by son's are nearly the same. The first power supply I guess did nothing. When he got the second one it powered up unlike the last but does not display video. So, we are back at not knowing why. His question is again, is his motherboard 100% compatible with the graphics card/video card? We also bought a motherboard at some point trying to fix it. Are all these items compatible? Everything was bought to be compatible with this video card he wanted. Both power supply's worked in his fathers computer fine. So did the video card. I spent a lot of money and their are no returns. Please help. My son is past discouraged about all this and now quite depressed over it. And I am going broke! LOL Seriously though!
List #1
1.) He has a windows 7 operating system
2.) 12 gigs of RAM
3.) Processor PPG is Intel I7 4770 Not sure if K or not (sorry, if I am writing that wrong.
4.) Main harddrive is 1 tarabyte
5.) Second harddrive is 2 tarabytes
List #2 What we bought (Sorry for the long write out of it. I don't know what to write and what not to)
1.) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 GV-N970WF30C-4GD 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready G-SYNC Support Video card
2.) ASUS Z97-A LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6 Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
3.) (The first Power Supply bought) CORSAIR CX series CX600W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
4.) (Second Power Supply) CORSAIR CX series CX 750M 750W ATX 12V v.2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power supply New 4th Gen. CPU Certified
5.) (Probably not important) NZXT Phantom 410 Series CA-PH410-B3 Black/orange steel/Plastic ATX Mid Tower Orange Trim Computer case
O.K. that's it! Am I missing anything that you need to know? I hope you all can help! Thanks in advance so much!
I wanted to add something to this post. My son just told me that when he puts the video card in that everything boots up, pc, fans start running and everything. But the motherboard does not detect the video card and then automatically switches over to the on board graphics. This is helpful to know.
Here is my earlier Post/Question
I am not sure where this would go. It can actually fit into a few categories I think. Here goes! My son is building a gaming computer as a gift from me for his B-day almost 2 years ago now. He already had a pc so basically he is making it better, a lot better. He needed only a few items. I bought the items he wanted that he said to buy and would be compatible with his computer and the other parts bought. All parts were bought by Newegg.com. Like I said this project began about a year and a half ago and we still cannot get his pc up and running. No one seems to know what the issue is including his father who use to put computers together. Can you please help us? Please tell me if what parts I bought and what he already has are compatible or not? And also, his question is, is the Motherboard 100% compatible with the video card? If not, what do I need to get? If they are compatible or should be, what do you think the problem may be? Please, please, help us! I will begin by giving you a list below of what his computer already has. Then I will give you a second list of what I bought for it.
Now I will tell you what happened when he tried putting it altogether. Troubles seem to begin from the beginning when the video card wouldn't work. Which was the very first item we bought. It worked in his fathers computer just fine. The only thing different his father claimed was that he had a better power supply than him. So we bought a better power supply. It didn't work. So he thought that maybe the power supply still wasn't good enough or compatible so I then bought an even better power supply. This one all his friends have working in their pc's with no problems. Their computer's hardware and software and by son's are nearly the same. The first power supply I guess did nothing. When he got the second one it powered up unlike the last but does not display video. So, we are back at not knowing why. His question is again, is his motherboard 100% compatible with the graphics card/video card? We also bought a motherboard at some point trying to fix it. Are all these items compatible? Everything was bought to be compatible with this video card he wanted. Both power supply's worked in his fathers computer fine. So did the video card. I spent a lot of money and their are no returns. Please help. My son is past discouraged about all this and now quite depressed over it. And I am going broke! LOL Seriously though!
List #1
1.) He has a windows 7 operating system
2.) 12 gigs of RAM
3.) Processor PPG is Intel I7 4770 Not sure if K or not (sorry, if I am writing that wrong.
4.) Main harddrive is 1 tarabyte
5.) Second harddrive is 2 tarabytes
List #2 What we bought (Sorry for the long write out of it. I don't know what to write and what not to)
1.) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 GV-N970WF30C-4GD 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready G-SYNC Support Video card
2.) ASUS Z97-A LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6 Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
3.) (The first Power Supply bought) CORSAIR CX series CX600W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
4.) (Second Power Supply) CORSAIR CX series CX 750M 750W ATX 12V v.2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power supply New 4th Gen. CPU Certified
5.) (Probably not important) NZXT Phantom 410 Series CA-PH410-B3 Black/orange steel/Plastic ATX Mid Tower Orange Trim Computer case
O.K. that's it! Am I missing anything that you need to know? I hope you all can help! Thanks in advance so much!
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