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I'm thinking it's either the motherboard or the power supply. It's an unbranded 500W PSU picked up on the cheap about 3 years ago. Haven't completely tried other methods though. The other system I used to troubleshoot relies on integrated graphics, so it doesn't have a graphics card.

Hi. Recently a problem cropped up with my system. Whenever I turned on my computer, nothing would show up on my monitor, which is connected to my GPU. It seems to be running all right, fan's spinning and all. However, there was the distinct beep at POST and when I unplugged the DVI cable and plugged it into the port on my motherboard, my computer works! It has booted into windows, though at a low resolution since I didn't install the iGPU drivers. It seems like only the integrated graphics works. However, when I tried that "faulty" graphics card in another system, the computer managed to get a signal and boots up normally. So what exactly is wrong? Is it the motherboard or my GPU that is faulty? I have tried a couple of things: 1. Updated and also rolled back motherboard BIOS. No joy. 2. Rolled back graphics card drivers. Didn't work either. 3. Tried a PCIe USB3 add-on card in the x16 slot which the graphics card originally was in. I had suspected a faulty slot. It(the USB3 card) worked fine but still my GPU wasn't getting any signal when I plugged it in. 4. Re-seated RAMs. Not working. Here are my system specs: Intel Core i5-2400 @3.1GHz Asus P8H61M LE/USB3 motherboard Asus ENGT 430 graphics card(or nvidia GT430) 8GB Corsair Vengance 1600Mhz RAM(running at 1333, since that's the most H61 supports) OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD Western Digital Blue, 500GB Windows 7 Home Preimum 64 bit

Hi. Recently a problem cropped up with my system. Whenever I turned on my computer, nothing would show up on my monitor, which is connected to my GPU. It seems to be running all right, fan's spinning and all. However, there was the distinct beep at POST and when I unplugged the DVI cable and plugged it into the port on my motherboard, my computer works! It has booted into windows, though at a low resolution since I didn't install the iGPU drivers. It seems like only the integrated graphics works. However, when I tried that "faulty" graphics card in another system, the computer managed to get a signal and boots up normally. So what exactly is wrong? Is it the motherboard or my GPU that is faulty? I have tried a couple of things: 1. Updated and also rolled back motherboard BIOS. No joy. 2. Rolled back graphics card drivers. Didn't work either. 3. Tried a PCIe USB3 add-on card in the x16 slot which the graphics card originally was in. I had suspected a faulty slot. It(the USB3 card) worked fine but still my GPU wasn't getting any signal when I plugged it in. 4. Re-seated RAMs. Not working. Here are my system specs: Intel Core i5-2400 @3.1GHz Asus P8H61M LE/USB3 motherboard Asus ENGT 430 graphics card(or nvidia GT430) 8GB Corsair Vengance 1600Mhz RAM(running at 1333, since that's the most H61 supports) OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD Western Digital Blue, 500GB Windows 7 Home Preimum 64 bit

Try this, it's my local custom gaming laptop builder:

You can go for Raidmax. Cheap and comes with free fireworks...:

Asus recently announced the Sabertooth 990FX/Gen3 R2.0. It has PCIe 3.0 support.

I recently swapped out my old Asus P5K-VM for a Gigabyte B75M-D3V. All I had to do was install my LAN drivers, and the Intel iGPU drivers.

When I think of a Logisys PSU....

Hehe [URL=http://www.speedtest.net][img=http://www.speedtest.net/result/2462958935.png][/URL]

This is why i keep an external DVD drive lying around. Can't remember the last time I used it though

...and why would it be a "terrible idea"???

That's because the i7s have hyperthreading while the i5s do not. Since most, if not all games do not take advantage of hyperthreading, getting an i7 is just money wasted for a pure gaming rig.