After extensive testing, I determined that the GPU was the issue. For some reason, the tomahawk mobo did not register an old gpu, so in order to test it i had to get a new mobo, which fortunately did register my super old gpu. It ran perfectly. I then had the opportunity to run the new 3060 in a known working PC, and I got the no signal error. Ultimately, the GPU was determined to be defective, and upon further inspection it seems parts of the contacts on the chip were missing, shorn perfectly horizontally at the tip, meaning it was likely a factory error.
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After extensive testing, I determined that the GPU was the issue. For some reason, the tomahawk mobo did not register an old gpu, so in order to test it i had to get a new mobo, which fortunately did register my super old gpu. It ran perfectly. I then had the opportunity to run the new 3060 in a known working PC which would rule out the motherboards, and I got the no signal error. Ultimately, the GPU was determined to be defective, and upon further inspection it seems parts of the contacts on the chip were missing, shorn perfectly horizontally at the tip, meaning it was likely a factory error.
''SOLUTION''
After extensive testing, I determined that the GPU was the issue. For some reason, the tomahawk mobo did not register an old gpu, so in order to test it i had to get a new mobo, which fortunately did register my super old gpu. It ran perfectly. I then had the opportunity to run the new 3060 in a known working PC, and I got the no signal error. Ultimately, the GPU was determined to be defective, and upon further inspection it seems parts of the contacts on the chip were missing, shorn perfectly horizontally at the tip, meaning it was likely a factory error.