Building a PC finally. Advice?

[ReikonKeiri]

Re: Building a PC finally. Advice?

my display is plugged into the motherboard. is it supposed to be connected into the graphics card? there's an hdmi labeled slot on the graphics card but my cable didn't fit in it for some reason so I just plugged it into the motherboard instead. Would the display be trying to work through the graphics card but not display anything because the monitor's not connected to it?

[Calcium Deposit]

Re: Building a PC finally. Advice?

Monitors connected via HDMI ports occasionally need to be booted into the OS to load the driver before it will display anything. You may have to switch to a DVI or RGB port if possible.

[ReikonKeiri]

Re: Building a PC finally. Advice?

unplugged the graphics card and plugged into the motherboard and got a display. victory.

I'm still horribly horribly confused as to why my HDMI cable does not fit into an HDMI port.

[Calcium Deposit]

Re: Building a PC finally. Advice?

You're going to have elaborate on that last post, include pictures if you can

[Emanresu13]

Re: Building a PC finally. Advice?

wikerpodium. possibly irrelevant, but on the chance it isn't...

Type A
Nineteen pins, with bandwidth to support all SDTV, EDTV and HDTV modes.[4] The plug (male) connector outside dimensions are 13.9 mm × 4.45 mm and the receptacle (female) connector inside dimensions are 14 mm × 4.55 mm.[54] Type A is electrically compatible with single-link DVI-D.[55]

Type C
A Mini connector defined in the HDMI 1.3 specification, it is intended for portable devices.[1][58][59] It is smaller than the type A plug connector (10.42 mm × 2.42 mm) but has the same 19-pin configuration.[58][60] The differences are that all positive signals of the differential pairs are swapped with their corresponding shield, the DDC/CEC Ground is assigned to pin 13 instead of pin 17, the CEC is assigned to pin 14 instead of pin 13, and the reserved pin is 17 instead of pin 14.[61] The type C Mini connector can be connected to a type A connector using a type A-to-type C cable.[58][59]

Type D
A Micro connector defined in the HDMI 1.4 specification[59][62] keeps the standard 19 pins of types A and C but shrinks the connector size to something resembling a micro-USB connector.[63] The type D connector is 2.8 mm × 6.4 mm, whereas the type C connector is 2.42 mm × 10.42 mm.[64] For comparison, a micro-USB connector is 1.8 mm × 6.85 mm and a USB Type A connector is 4.5 mm × 11.5 mm. The pin assignment is different from Type A or C.

[ReikonKeiri]

Re: Building a PC finally. Advice?

Keep answering all my own questions. Showed it to my dad when he got home and he poked the port with a metal pick and suddenly it went in. Was so confused -_-. Atm everything is working as expected. I'll post again if anything else happens.

[Calcium Deposit]

Re: Building a PC finally. Advice?

I know, too little too late but an AMD processor would've shaved about $100 and still maintain close to the same processing power

edit- nvm you did change to one if I read the second post correctly...

[i heart candy]

Re: Building a PC finally. Advice?

I still love AMD. My newest build has one.