Quote from: dobatron81 on April 17, 2013, 03:53:24 AM

well, if you are plugging in the cards w/o the drivers installed from AMD and expecting the monitor to turn on you may be mistaken... also, plugging the monitor in the mobo vga slot with video cards in the pci ports may not work as well, as i had this problem i think w my friends rig. unplug the cards and get the monitor working like they did in the shop, then upload the latest drivers from AMD to run your 7970's. Also tell your wife that she can be of help with this as two brains are better than one. Always take a break, and ground yourself from static before working on the system. I'm kind of a newbie myself but sometimes the obvious isn't obvious to seasoned miners. Hope you are hashing away shortly...

Most MB bios have basic vga support through the graphics card in your pciex slot, especially ones that supports 3 cards. In fact, having a graphics card in the pciex slot could possibly be toggling off the MB's onboard gpu. If we are understanding you correctly, and you are going from VGA to your motherboard with your graphics cards in, this is wrong. DVI out from your slot 1 graphics card to the monitor is what you need to be doing.