First time installing gpu problems.

JoeCool12 · July 19, 2018

My motherboard is a 088DT1. My powersupply is a CX500. My GPU I just bought is a gtx 1050ti.

I am having a lot of difficulty setting my PC up with the new card. This is my first time even opening up a computer so try to go into detail on exactly what to try.

After installing the new gpu, My monitor said no signal. When I took my card out again and used the integrated graphics, it worked.

My old GPU is an integrated one built into my CPU. My monitor VGA cable went directly into the back of the computer which went to the motherboard. Since I am getting an actual "card", I bought an HDMI cable instead since it does not have a VGA slot. I hooked the HDMI into the GPU and then put that into my monitor. I set my monitor to HDMI. I do not know why i am still getting a "No signal".

Do I have to install the new drivers before I install my card? Do I have to delete/remove the old graphics drivers first?

Is my new GPU even working? It is getting warm so there is definitely power in it. The fans won't turn(They don't until a high temperature is reached). How am I sure it is not broken?

Do I have to disable secure boot or enable legacy CSM like other forums said since my motherboard is old and this card is new? One user said I should not as it will wipe all my data, but i have no idea what to try then. Also the option for this is blurred out in my bios so I can't even try it.

My PC was factory built so it may be possible they made it so it only checks the integrated graphics on boot.

suchamoneypit · July 19, 2018

Go into your motherboard's BIOS, while booted off of integrated graphics and the GPU installed, and somewhere there should be an option referring to your display driver. Common terms are "onboard" (integrated graphics) and "offboard" (GPU) graphics. You'd want to switch this setting to use offboard graphics, or PCI-E graphics. Might also just be an option to turn off integrated graphics being the default driver.

So essentially the card is properly installed but your motherboard is probably still set to use the iGPU. If you did not plug in power cables to the 1050ti if it has some, this could also cause no display output. Without the power cables for GPU plugged into ive gotten simply no display output like you, as well as getting a error message on a black screen prompting me to plug in the extra power cable.

It you can boot off integrated graphics with the card installed, and can see it listed [the gpu] in device manager, is almost certainly what I described above (just a wrong setting in BIOS)

DotzHyper · July 19, 2018

13 minutes ago, JoeCool12 said:

My motherboard is a 088DT1. My powersupply is a CX500. My GPU I just bought is a gtx 1050ti.

I am having a lot of difficulty setting my PC up with the new card. This is my first time even opening up a computer so try to go into detail on exactly what to try.

After installing the new gpu, My monitor said no signal. When I took my card out again and used the integrated graphics, it worked.

My old GPU is an integrated one built into my CPU. My monitor VGA cable went directly into the back of the computer which went to the motherboard. Since I am getting an actual "card", I bought an HDMI cable instead since it does not have a VGA slot. I hooked the HDMI into the GPU and then put that into my monitor. I set my monitor to HDMI. I do not know why i am still getting a "No signal".

Do I have to install the new drivers before I install my card? Do I have to delete/remove the old graphics drivers first?

Is my new GPU even working? It is getting warm so there is definitely power in it. The fans won't turn(They don't until a high temperature is reached). How am I sure it is not broken?

Do I have to disable secure boot or enable legacy CSM like other forums said since my motherboard is old and this card is new? One user said I should not as it will wipe all my data, but i have no idea what to try then. Also the option for this is blurred out in my bios so I can't even try it.

My PC was factory built so it may be possible they made it so it only checks the integrated graphics on boot.

For the other reply, I’ve noticed you said you are a beginner so to help as much as I can, you get into the bios by pressing/kinda spamming the DELETE key (not backspace) when the pc is booting

just in case

JoeCool12 · July 19, 2018

It may be just an HDMI problem.

When I used my integrated graphics and connected the motherboard to the monitor it worked fine with the VGA cable. When i connected the motherboard to the monitor with a HDMI cable, i got no signal/ or a completely blank screen. The moment I put the VGA cable back in an image appeared. Why won't the HDMI cable work? My monitor also will only stay on VGA and when i try to switch to HDMI, it automatically goes back to VGA.