Monitor & Graphics Card Issue

HazzaB, like Paul, I'm short on ideas. But, is there a way you could get into bios and check the PCIe slots and tell if the bios is detecting the card? Failing that, if you have another PC, put the card in it and see if it works there. If you don't have another PC, see if you have a friend who would help you and put the xard in their PC. Also, if you manage to get into bios, please look at the hardware monitor section and give us the values of the +12V, +5V and the +3.3V. When you start your PC, does everything other than the graphics card seem to be working?

Unfortunately, not without being booted into the os. If you have on board graphics, you could remove the card completely and see if it will work using on board. If it will, uninstall the drivers then and try.

I doubt very much that will be the issue, it matters not one bit what drivers are installed before windows starts. You should still be seeing the boot screens regardless of drivers.

I really don't know what to suggest, could be the motherboard or cpu has died but no way to tell without spending money.

I'm a late comer to this thread and may have missed something. But, it seems you brgan having this graphics problem after you cleaned the PC and the graphics card. It's quite easy to loosen some wires or not have them completely seated when cleaning. I would go back over the wiring and make sure all the connections are right and completely seated. I offer this as a final check. Other than that, I really have no other suggestions right now. With no extra PC and extra parts it is near impossible to determine which part is nad. A PC repair shop would have all those things.

HazzaB said:

Checked all the wiring etc. and everything is in place. While Imwas cleaning it, I took out the CPU and too be honest didn't handle it very well, I may of accidently touched one of the pins on there. Could this be the cause?

Most definitely, if a pin was bent then the cpu could be dead and that will give no signal at all.

I killed a CPU in my PC earlier this year, everything powered up but just black screen. My motherboard happens to have lights for each component to highlight if something is wrong and in my case the cpu light was lit up red. I knew it was dead straight away.
For you it is not as easy to determine as you don't have the lights. I would recommend carefully removing the CPU again and looking for bent pins.