Graphics card not being used

[Jose Peynado]

I just downloaded windows for my newly built pc and after chrome, first thing I was installing was Nvdia control panel. I thought after setting this up is when I should’ve connected the hdmi to thr GPU. Turns out it’s using the integrated graphics in my motherboard, and I have no idea why. The graphics card is a 4090 aorus which is lighting up as well as playing an animation on the lcd screen. Please help!

[TatamiMatt]

4 minutes ago, Jose Peynado said:

I just downloaded windows for my newly built pc and after chrome, first thing I was installing was Nvdia control panel. I thought after setting this up is when I should’ve connected the hdmi to thr GPU. Turns out it’s using the integrated graphics in my motherboard, and I have no idea why. The graphics card is a 4090 aorus which is lighting up as well as playing an animation on the lcd screen. Please help!

Have you plugged your monitors into the GPU?

[DreamCat04]

5 minutes ago, Jose Peynado said:

I just downloaded windows for my newly built pc and after chrome, first thing I was installing was Nvdia control panel. I thought after setting this up is when I should’ve connected the hdmi to thr GPU. Turns out it’s using the integrated graphics in my motherboard, and I have no idea why. The graphics card is a 4090 aorus which is lighting up as well as playing an animation on the lcd screen. Please help!

You should install the graphics driver, not just the NVidia control panel. The best way is to do it through NVidia's website and download the driver for your graphics card

[Jose Peynado]

9 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

Have you plugged your monitors into the GPU?

Yes I tried but no picture displays

[TatamiMatt]

Just now, Jose Peynado said:

Yes I tried but no picture displays

Either install geforce experience or better again, install new drivers from nvidias website as @DreamCat04 mentioned above

[Jose Peynado]

7 minutes ago, DreamCat04 said:

You should install the graphics driver, not just the NVidia control panel. The best way is to do it through NVidia's website and download the driver for your graphics card

I tried as well but it says no nvdia supported devices or something along the lines. It’s like the gpu isn’t even connected. Im sure no pins are damaged and connection is secure. Fan isn’t running though but I heard thats because it’s not up to temp

[PowerPCFan]

Nvidia Drivers: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/

 

Also plug your monitors in using DisplayPort or HDMI in the GPU, not the motherboard next to the USB and stuff. 

[TatamiMatt]

6 minutes ago, Jose Peynado said:

I tried as well but it says no nvdia supported devices or something along the lines. It’s like the gpu isn’t even connected. Im sure no pins are damaged and connection is secure. Fan isn’t running though but I heard thats because it’s not up to temp

Could you post a pic?

 

Edit: (of the physical setup aswell as any software issues)

[Jose Peynado]

I tried connecting to gpu directly but no image. The driver download doesn’t work and I get an error because it doesn’t recognize an available device.

[Jose Peynado]

7 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

Could you post a pic?

I restarted the Pc now and there‘s an error in the motherboard display 98. Here’s what’s displayed, i’ll show you pic after I get past this, thanks!

 

[TatamiMatt]

1 minute ago, Jose Peynado said:

I restarted the Pc now and there‘s an error in the motherboard display 98. Here’s what’s displayed

 

Do you have 65.5GB of memory? of DDR5-4000?

[Jose Peynado]

15 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

Could you post a pic?

 

Edit: (of the physical setup aswell as any software issues)

Will update with what I see on screen

edit: everytime I enable XMP it doesn’t boot into windows for some reason.

[Jose Peynado]

4 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

Do you have 65.5GB of memory? of DDR5-4000?

I have DDR5 64gb (2x32) 6400MHz CL32

[TatamiMatt]

2 minutes ago, Jose Peynado said:

I have DDR5 64gb (2x32) 6400MHz CL32

Strange it all looks in working order,

and that is, if everything works out for you, a beast of a set-up

[Jose Peynado]

Just now, TatamiMatt said:

Strange it all looks in working order,

and that is, if everything works out for you, a beast of a set-up

Thank you very much, it’s been a long one with my prebuilt 2060. This is my first build so I don’t know what I might’ve done wrong. I have some suspicion of the cable. The gpu came with a cable which split into 4 but my understanding was the modular PSU didn’t need it and I connected the 600w cable that came with it directly, Was I wrong?

[Jose Peynado]

Just now, Jose Peynado said:

Thank you very much, it’s been a long one with my prebuilt 2060. This is my first build so I don’t know what I might’ve done wrong. I have some suspicion of the cable. The gpu came with a cable which split into 4 but my understanding was the modular PSU didn’t need it and I connected the 600w cable that came with it (psu) directly, Was I wrong? 
 

 

 

[TatamiMatt]

7 minutes ago, Jose Peynado said:

Thank you very much, it’s been a long one with my prebuilt 2060. This is my first build so I don’t know what I might’ve done wrong. I have some suspicion of the cable. The gpu came with a cable which split into 4 but my understanding was the modular PSU didn’t need it and I connected the 600w cable that came with it directly, Was I wrong?

Firstly, slot Ram in slots 2 and 4 not 1 and 3, will help with speed and stability, especially with that much and over 6000MT/s RAM, could very possibly solve the not booting with XMP issue

 

Secondly, how exactly do you mean, youve put the GPU power cable, one side into the GPU and the other directly into the PSU? Does the PSU have the right port for it, if so then directly plugging in is better for the GPUs power? Which PSU is it?

[TatamiMatt]

5 minutes ago, Jose Peynado said:

 

Answered my questoin before i asked it, wow, mind reader over here 

 

Have you plugged the cable in the correct way around, im using an AMD GPU and havent had any experience with PCIe 5.0 cables, but, is there a "PSU" side and a "GPU" side similar to the CPU power cable?

 

Cables fully seated?

 

GPU fully seated in PCIe slot? (It looks like it but better safe than sorry)

[Jose Peynado]

5 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

Answered my questoin before i asked it, wow, mind reader over here

 

Have you plugged the cable in the correct way around, im using an AMD GPU and havent had any experience with PCIe 5.0 cables, but, is there a "PSU" side and a "GPU" side similar to the CPU power cable?

 

Cables fully seated?

 

GPU fully seated in PCIe slot?

Both sides are the same, I’ve just confirmed it’s correctly seated. Both sides of cable say 600w and seem the same. 

[Jose Peynado]

4 minutes ago, Jose Peynado said:

Both sides are the same, I’ve just confirmed it’s correctly seated. Both sides of cable say 600w and seem the same. 

 

big update, just pushed the cable a little bit into the gpu and fans started spinning, will check if windows recognizes.

*Edit

just booted up windows and device manager doesn’t recognize as display adapter but it does as other devices, will try installing drivers

[TatamiMatt]

14 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

Firstly, slot Ram in slots 2 and 4 not 1 and 3, will help with speed and stability, especially with that much and over 6000MT/s RAM, could very possibly solve the not booting with XMP issue

To double down on this though, give this a go @Jose Peynado

 

Should hopefully fix the XMP stability issue

 

2 minutes ago, Jose Peynado said:

big update, just pushed the cable a little bit into the gpu and fans started spinning, will check if windows recognizes.

Fingers crossed, and make damn sure, excuse my language, that they are fully, 100%, no doubt, completely seated, 600W is a lot of power for 1 cable, and there have been many a cable and gpu port melted due to bad seating

[Jose Peynado]

[TatamiMatt]

3 minutes ago, Jose Peynado said:

Reseat GPU with PC off?

 

Essentially turn it off and on again and see if that works 

[Jose Peynado]

4 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

Reseat GPU with PC off?

 

Essentially turn it off and on again and see if that works 

And should I boot with hdmi connected to gpu or still to the motherboard?

[Jose Peynado]

13 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

To double down on this though, give this a go @Jose Peynado

 

Should hopefully fix the XMP stability issue

 

Fingers crossed, and make damn sure, excuse my language, that they are fully, 100%, no doubt, completely seated, 600W is a lot of power for 1 cable, and there have been many a cable and gpu port melted due to bad seating

Oh wow, made damn sure of it / does motherboard always run through the checks? Meaning it starts throwing a party with the numbers on its lcd