My gtx 590

[Mogg]

I'm trying to boot up my PC for the first time and I'm a bit stuck on what to do. When I turn on my PC, my monitor recognises that something is connected for a second then looses connection. I've just built this PC and I'm not sure if I should expect a bios window to appear when I boot it up for the first time or what?

So basically I'm asking what to expect the first time you boot up a PC with no operating system on it yet and should this be happening?, with regards to my graphics card.

Cheers!

 

[dugdiamond]

okay, normally, if you monitor is warmed up the GPU's specs will be shown briefly before the POST appears.

please give the specs of the rest of your rig

 

[alienware]

Only one of the heads (or outputs) on the card will display bios, that being head number one. On my 470 they are labelled.

The second head or output will not display a signal until Windows has loaded a driver, usually about half way through booting.

It sounds to me like this is your first build, given that you don't know what to expect.

Oddly enough this subject has been under debate all day.

Chances are if you do have it in the correct port then you have either forgotten something (8 pin EPS, not seated something correctly and so on) or you have damaged something (most trendy one atm is the cpu pins).

Good luck with it, it sounds like you've got a serious ammount of cash riding on it.

 

[Ya93sin]

I'm trying to boot up my PC for the first time and I'm a bit stuck on what to do. When I turn on my PC, my monitor recognises that something is connected for a second then looses connection. I've just built this PC and I'm not sure if I should expect a bios window to appear when I boot it up for the first time or what?

So basically I'm asking what to expect the first time you boot up a PC with no operating system on it yet and should this be happening?, with regards to my graphics card.

Cheers!

Without an OS, and with a HDD plugged in, I got the 'please insert bootable media' or something along those lines, if the HDD isn't in you will get a disk error.

Is your monitor auto-turning off? E.g. a power saving feature or similar. If you haven't got a BIOS menu coming up...

And is your PC actually turning on? As in fans spinning, graphics card fan spinning...And when you 'lose' the connection does the PC remain on? You could try connecting to a TV or alternative monitor, or use a HDMi cable instead of DVI etc

If you are on Z68 chipset, then try disconnecting the graphics card, seeing if it POSTs then with the IGP in use.

Do you have any motherboard speaker connected? Maybe there is a warning beep or something.

Also what specs are you running?