**Troubleshooting graphics output

GoneWithTheGin · June 28, 2015

Hello there fellow LTT gents, i'm having a pc issue, and was wondering if any of you can help.

To give some perspective on the matter: I built a rig for my little brother to get him into the pc gaming space even on his low budget, to coax him away from console gaming). The main components of his system are an AMD A10-7700k APU on a Gigabyte F2A58M-HD2 Motherboard, with no discrete graphics card, as the integrated graphics cores suited his minimal pc needs.

The issue arouse whenever my brother shut off his pc for the night a few weeks back after a night of mild netflix watching and YouTube viewing, and he experience no issues in doing so. The problem surfaced whenever he turned his pc on again the morning everything turned on and such, yet his pc was not displaying anything to the monitor and the monitors does not auto-detect any inputs (and continues not to display anything when plugged into the built in motherboard display outputs such as the onboard HDMI, DVI, and VGA).

I pulled the card that is in my main rig and put it into his pc, and it displays fine to the monitor correctly and the monitor auto-detects it just fine.

So the issue is that I'm not entirely sure what the problem part is in the system, whether it be the onboard graphics chip not outputting anything for whatever reason, or dead/inactive video output ports on the motherboard.

If any of you have a way I can see if the on-board graphics are still viable (as perhaps maybe one of the cores died due to overheating, since begrudgingly he is only running a stock heatsink), or if I can fix the issue in any way that would be great.