hi everyone just put together my new pc. only thing i dont have is a new graphics card which i wont have for a few weeks. the motherboard has no on board graphics. so i just put in a pci graphics card, obviously cause my agp one is no good. anyway wen i boot up the screen stays black. am i right to assume that the graphics card is just not supported by the motherboard? is there a way around this? thanks lachlan

did you benchtest the board like we always preach about around here? or did you just plop it in the case & hook everything up? "And that's the fishing line, because Sharkboy said so!"

i plopped it in the case... this is the board with the broken capacitor btw. its a GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L if that makes a difference. wat is benchtest?

i brought a pci-e card and still nothing another observation is that the cpu fan seems to spin pretty slow. i havent seen one of these cpu and fans in action (e8400) before, but my guess is the fan should be spinning faster than it is???

"wat is benchtest?" See responses 2 & 3: http://www.computing.net/answers/ha... "And that's the fishing line, because Sharkboy said so!"

Do you get the initial single POST beep? That tells you that the motherboard/bios/CPU are all working.

Reset bios. Check for what the default is in doc's. Put that card in. Power back up with monitor attached and powered up. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10