MrLagoon

MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

Ok cool. So I remove the video card, disable the iGPU thru the mobo, reinstall the GPU, and golden? I'll report back. Appreciate it!

I do that through the mobo BIOS?

Already tried that. This is the second card they sent and I highly doubt I've got two bum cards in a row. Also, I know the card is getting power because a small light changes from red to white when I plug the 8 pin in.

I'm sorry, I didn't make that clear. The gpu only has an 8 pin female in which to plug in the 8 pin male from the psu. That's all squared away.

CPU: i5 4690k 3.5ghz quad cooler: Corsair H60 Mobo: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive SSD: 256gb GPU: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card Case: NZXT Phantom full PSU: Corsair Builder 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply Monitor: BenQ GL2460HM 60Hz 24.0" Monitor

The asus gpu has an 8 pin that i've hooked up. otherwise, i'm not quite sure what you're talking about for pcie cables.

nope, not vga or hdmi

I did install the drivers of the mobo. I haven't tried another hdmi cable. I got this one from radioshack. Fair point, the hdmi doesn't work in this setup in which the vga does provide an image (sans gpu installed). This question is from sheer lack of ignorance: Shouldn't the vga work either way if it was still plugged into the mobo when the gpu was installed?

To begin with, this is what I own: CPU: i5 4690k 3.5ghz quad cooler: Corsair H60 Mobo: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive SSD: 256gb GPU: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card Case: NZXT Phantom full PSU: Corsair Builder 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply Monitor: BenQ GL2460HM 60Hz 24.0" Monitor SO, my problem is rather odd. when I have the graphics card installed into the motherboard, if I insert the VGA to the mobo, the screen says no signal detected. If I plug in the hdmi to either the mobo or gpu, it says no cable detected. However, if I remove the gpu entirely, everything works fine and I have an image. Actually, that's how I'm writing this right now. Prelim troubleshooting: I made sure everything was working and plugged in correctly, and then RMA'd both the mobo and gpu to amazon since it is within 30 days. The problem I'm having is that I don't have my gpu installed and that's kind of the entire point of building this pc. Please help.