Help with screen display issues

[phillpower2]

Yeah it seems to be that even when I don’t connect to the video card if it is attached to the mb then there is no video.

That is normal behaviour, when the BIOS detects the presence of an add on video card be it working or not the MBs integrated graphics are disabled by default, this can only be changed on certain MBs that have certain CPUs, in your case the i5-3570k CPU has HD 4000 graphics but for this to also work alongside an add on GPU your MB must allow you to set the primary video as Intel integrated + integrated video always enabled.

[Markh510]

That makes sense I suppose cheers
As for trying the video card in the other slot, it worked for a while but then the displays cut out like they did before. I assume that this all but confirms the video card is done with

[phillpower2]

Running the computer for a prolonged period using only the MBs video ports will help confirm it but only having your present video card tested elsewhere can confirm it to be 100% bad I`m afraid.

[Markh510]

Well since I have taking the video card out and am just using the mb I haven’t had any issues at all, some games run a little laggy but that was the purpose of the video card in the first place so that makes sense anyway.

[phillpower2]

Would still get the add on card tested just so that you can be sure that the PCI-E slots on the MB are ok.

[veeg]

Any updates for us?

[Markh510]

Apologies for the delay…
Got the new psu and now the add on video card
Was almost a disaster as the video card only just fits in the pc but I got it in there lol stupidly though I have the wrong dvi adapter and so I have one perfectly working screen but am waiting on the adapter to test both though I suspect given the lack of issues with one display that it should be able to handle it

So hopefully this saga has ended and I can thank you all for all the help though I will confirm likely the end of the week once I get the adapter

[phillpower2]

Looking promising and thanks for the update Mark (y)

[veeg]

Any updates for us?

[Markh510]

Had an issue with the dvi adapter not working so still no two screens but am confident that it is all sorted now so thanks again for all the help… would likely have just replaced everything near enough if you guys weren’t there lol

[veeg]

Ok thanks for the update ..i’ll mark this thread as solved.