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Hi all.
I'm rather stumped here, as I believe I've gone through everything, but still am coming up empty on why I am not getting any video to show up from my Radeon 6950. Some background:
I was running Windows 7 on the following:
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P ATX board
AMD Athlon Phenom II X3 945
Seagate 200GB 7200RPM SATA III HD
Western Digital 1.5TB 5900RPM SATA III HD
Seagate 320GB 5900RPM SATA III HD
Corsair XMS2 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR2 PC6400 Memory
Sapphire Radeon HD6950 2GB (unlocked to HD6970)
Antec TruPower Blue 750W PSU
Dell 1901FP Monitor (DVI)
Dell 2009SW Monitor (HDMI)
I'm tired of towers, and after building the 2012 CustoMac Mini, I've decided to build one last machine, then I am done. So I scrapped all of the above, keeping the above PSU, Video card, Monitors, and 1.5TB drive (all my personal files and Flightsim data). With that, I have:
Bitfenix Prodigy mITX case
Gigabyte Z77N-WIFI Socket 1155 mini-ITX motherboard
Intel Core i5-3570K CPU
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 Low Profile Memory
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB Sata III SSD (I know, I'm playing with fire here, but it's working)
Hitachi 750GB 7200RPM SATA III HD
Western Digital 1.5TB 5900RPM SATA III HD
Antec TruPower Blue 750W PSU
Sapphire Radeon HD6950 2GB PCIE x16 Video card
LG 48x DVD+-RW SATA III drive
BIOS revision on the Z77N-WIFI board is F2 (latest stable).
I have Windows 7 Enterprise installed without a problem, using the onboard HD4000 video that is on the 3570K. That isn't a problem. After getting Windows installed, I've installed the latest Catalyst drivers from AMD, restarted the machine, went into the BIOS, and made sure that the following was set:
VT-d is DISABLED (wasn't listed as a setting in the BIOS, as the CPU doesn't support it)
Intel Virtualization is DISABLED
Init Display First is set to PEG
Internal Graphics is set to DISABLED
Internal Graphics Standby Mode is set to DISABLED
Internal Graphics Deep Sleep Mode is set to DISABLED
I saved these settings to a local profile, wrote them to the BIOS, exited, then powered off the machine.
I then plugged in the HD6950, using the same cables they were in when they were in the AMD box, plugged the HDMI cable back into the card's slot, DVI cable back into the card's slot, and powered on..
No video output for the monitors, though the machine boots up into Windows. I then pulled the HDMI cable, and went straight DVI...
Again, nothing. I plug the video card back into the AMD box, it starts up. I go back to the HD4000 onboard (by clearing the CMOS, loading optimized defaults, and setting INIT Display First to IGFX, and I have video. The monitors recognize the HD6950 when the cables are plugged in, but I am just not getting any output when the machine powers on and posts.
Is there a BIOS setting I am missing? I know it has to be something simple and I'm missing it. Anybody have any ideas?
BL.
I'm rather stumped here, as I believe I've gone through everything, but still am coming up empty on why I am not getting any video to show up from my Radeon 6950. Some background:
I was running Windows 7 on the following:
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P ATX board
AMD Athlon Phenom II X3 945
Seagate 200GB 7200RPM SATA III HD
Western Digital 1.5TB 5900RPM SATA III HD
Seagate 320GB 5900RPM SATA III HD
Corsair XMS2 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR2 PC6400 Memory
Sapphire Radeon HD6950 2GB (unlocked to HD6970)
Antec TruPower Blue 750W PSU
Dell 1901FP Monitor (DVI)
Dell 2009SW Monitor (HDMI)
I'm tired of towers, and after building the 2012 CustoMac Mini, I've decided to build one last machine, then I am done. So I scrapped all of the above, keeping the above PSU, Video card, Monitors, and 1.5TB drive (all my personal files and Flightsim data). With that, I have:
Bitfenix Prodigy mITX case
Gigabyte Z77N-WIFI Socket 1155 mini-ITX motherboard
Intel Core i5-3570K CPU
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 Low Profile Memory
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB Sata III SSD (I know, I'm playing with fire here, but it's working)
Hitachi 750GB 7200RPM SATA III HD
Western Digital 1.5TB 5900RPM SATA III HD
Antec TruPower Blue 750W PSU
Sapphire Radeon HD6950 2GB PCIE x16 Video card
LG 48x DVD+-RW SATA III drive
BIOS revision on the Z77N-WIFI board is F2 (latest stable).
I have Windows 7 Enterprise installed without a problem, using the onboard HD4000 video that is on the 3570K. That isn't a problem. After getting Windows installed, I've installed the latest Catalyst drivers from AMD, restarted the machine, went into the BIOS, and made sure that the following was set:
VT-d is DISABLED (wasn't listed as a setting in the BIOS, as the CPU doesn't support it)
Intel Virtualization is DISABLED
Init Display First is set to PEG
Internal Graphics is set to DISABLED
Internal Graphics Standby Mode is set to DISABLED
Internal Graphics Deep Sleep Mode is set to DISABLED
I saved these settings to a local profile, wrote them to the BIOS, exited, then powered off the machine.
I then plugged in the HD6950, using the same cables they were in when they were in the AMD box, plugged the HDMI cable back into the card's slot, DVI cable back into the card's slot, and powered on..
No video output for the monitors, though the machine boots up into Windows. I then pulled the HDMI cable, and went straight DVI...
Again, nothing. I plug the video card back into the AMD box, it starts up. I go back to the HD4000 onboard (by clearing the CMOS, loading optimized defaults, and setting INIT Display First to IGFX, and I have video. The monitors recognize the HD6950 when the cables are plugged in, but I am just not getting any output when the machine powers on and posts.
Is there a BIOS setting I am missing? I know it has to be something simple and I'm missing it. Anybody have any ideas?
BL.