Graphics Card
- PowerColor HD 7970
- No overclocking

AMD Catalyst Driver Version, and Driver History
- N/A I cannot get this far

Operating System
- Win 7 64-Bit

Motherboard or System Make & Model
- Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5

Power Supply
- Cool Master Silent Pro Gold 1000W Model: RSA00-80GAD3-US / RS-A00-80GA-D3

Display Device(s) and Connection(s) Used
- HP 2711x Monitor
- Using the video connector that has to be screwed in. Sorry I don’t know the name of these.

Applications and Games
- N/A

CPU Details
- Intel Core i7-3930K CPU @ 3.2GHZ

Motherboard BIOS Version
- ALASKA – 1072009 Dual BIOS Capable

System Memory Type & Amount
- 16GB Corsair XMS3

Greetings all,

I recently had to send my old 7970 XfX back because it went bad. During the down time I started using my 5850 to be able to continue to use my system. When I got the replacement GPU 7970 PowerColor I made sure to wipe all the software for the 5850 and do a driver sweep.

To my extreme dismay, I am not able to get the new card to display anything. The computer appears to boot but I don’t think it goes past the BIOS message since when I press the power button it instantly shuts off. I have 2 slots to test the GPU on and neither of them are successful. My mother board is "Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5." I am currently back to using my 5850 until I can get the other one to work. I am writing this in hopes that I am missing something and I don’t have a faulty, brand new, card on my hands.

Further info: When attempting to run with the new 7970 I have no drivers installed. The 5850 boots fine without drivers or software but not the 7970. The Motherboard I have does not have on board graphics so I can’t do any diagnostics while the card is plugged into the system

Any help would be extremely appreciated,

Thank you,

Kolzig

Please read the "PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING" and supply the basic information...especially the make and model of your power supply.

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If you're sure the card is properly seated and the correct power is being supplied, it certainly sounds like a defective card.

You might want to try scrounging up a PC speaker and plugging it into the motherboard (orange backed pins on the front panel connector), so you can get a beep code.

Thanny,

There is an internal speaker and I usually get a beep when the system boots up. Right now with the new card I do not recieve any beeps.

Well then , if you put your 5k series card back into your PC. And the PC post and boots fine... Then you have a bad card. Which it certainly sounds like it is since your PC is not posting with that card installed.

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