970 woes

[joffy]

Just got a ASUS GTX970 Strix card.
I updated my BIOS a few days ago in preparation, went into device manager and uninstalled my old 670 card.
Put the new card in, switched on, got to the Win10 log in screen and then the screen went into stand by mode.

Rebooted, no display. Rebooted again, managed to get into the bios settings, but the display suddenly went into standby mode again.

The light on the Strix is lit, it's connected to my 750w PSU with a 8pin PCI-E connection.

Put my old 670 back in and still works ok.

So any ideas what could be wrong? It's a B grade 970, sold as like new with missing manuals.

 

[ALXAndy]

There seem to be a lot of UEFI issues with Windows 10 on certain boards.

Disable UEFI and go into Legacy mode, then try again.

 

[joffy]

Thanks will try that.

 

[joffy]

Well I changed all the UEFI settings I could see in the bios, still no joy.

 

[MasterOC]

What motherboard ? May need bios update

 

[joffy]

What motherboard ? May need bios update

Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Socket 1150.
I read that you may need the latest bios so I updated it the other day so it would ready to go.

The very 1st time I booted with the card in, heard the fans spin for a second, booted to the Win10 login screen which was low resolution, then monitor just went into standby mode.

Kept resetting the pc, screen just kept in standby. Managed to get into the BIOS settings but only for a few seconds then display just goes into standby.

 

[Andygully]

I was getting similar problems with a 980 strix i bought last week. to fix my issues i took the card out used compressed air on the pci slot and the power connectors (and my braided cable exstensions which i also reseated) it fixed all my issues i was having.

 

[joffy]

I was getting similar problems with a 980 strix i bought last week. to fix my issues i took the card out used compressed air on the pci slot and the power connectors (and my braided cable exstensions which i also reseated) it fixed all my issues i was having.

Thanks for the tip. It was rather dusty in the case but had it in n out a few times and the old card is still fine.

I've sent it back and getting a brand new MSI 970 instead. Not such a bargain as the B-grade Strix but hopefully it will at least work ok.

 

[fs123]

edit: duplicate

 

[fs123]

Could be the onboard GPU interfering if it's enabled. When I updated my motherboard bios once it defaulted to the iGPU so got no display.

 

[joffy]

Could be the onboard GPU interfering if it's enabled. When I updated my motherboard bios once it defaulted to the iGPU so got no display.

Cheers, I put my old card back in so I could get into the bios ok and made sure onboard was off.