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Cannot Display on Monitor

OrbitzXT

OrbitzXT

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System Name AX-01
Processor Intel Core i5-2500K @3.7 GHz
Motherboard ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3
Cooling Zalman 9700
Memory Kingston HyperX T1 Series 8GB DDR3 1600 MHZ
Video Card(s) GTX 590
Storage Intel X25-M
Display(s) 42" Samsung LED HDTV
Case Antec Twelve Hundred
Audio Device(s) HT | OMEGA STRIKER 7.1
Power Supply Kingwin 1000W
Software Windows 7 64-Bit
I had a computer that had a 9400GT in it. I took out the GPU and put it into another computer because I needed the DVI input from the video card. The computer I took the card from I cannot get to display an image now. On it's motherboard, it has 2 DVI ports. A DVI-D and DVI-I. I've tried both with no success. It was some basic custom built PC for the office here with a simple Intel motherboard that I can't even find a model number for. It just says "Intel Desktop Board".

I've tried taking out the battery, I don't see a typical set of Clear CMOS pins. There are no VGA ports on the motherboard so I can't try a different monitor. Any thoughts on what I can do to get it working?
 
Taking the battery out for 30-60 seconds should clear cmos, though to be honest it should really pick up the signal from the onboard without doing that.
 
Its still not working, I found out it's an Intel DQ45CB motherboard. Also I just noticed there's a blinking red LED on the motherboard right now while it's off. I'm uncertain what that means though but blink red lights are hardly ever good.

Also in the manual for the motherboard it says DVD-I and DVD-D are disabled when a PCI-E card is installed. I guess it doesn't know the PCI-E is gone now though.
 
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I couldn't go into the bios because nothing ever showed up on the screen. I got it working but what I ultimately had to do was put the PCI-E card back in, boot up, go into BIOS and change the settings to boot to the integrated graphics. I'm not sure why my attempts at resetting the CMOS failed, but everything is ok now.
 
what about the light on the monitor, does it blink or change green or yellow. if it change it means the monitor got signal from your vga. does your board beep something strange?
maybe you need to put the card on, change the vga to onboard then you could take it again, i dunno i hope works
 
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