Can anyone here help me, my GTX 670 stopped working so I have spent nearly £40 sending it to OcUK having it tested then being told there is nothing wrong. So I'm assuming the issue is my motherboard, it's an ASUS P8P67 Pro v3.1.
Okay, the spec:
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 PRO REV 3.1
RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz DDR3 RAM
Power Supply: NZXT Hale90 700W PSU
Graphics: 2x ASUS GTX 560TIs Factory Overclocked (*MSI GTX 670 Power Edition)
Sound: ASUS Xonar DGX Sound Card
Storage: Crucial M4 128GB SSD
Processor: Intel Core i7 2600k 3.8Ghz
Cooling: Corsair A50 Heatsink
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
*Card shown in Italic/Yellow is the one that is faulty, the other two cards in SLI work without any issue no matter what.
Okay, the issue:
I would power on the PC, and everything would start up, the monitor displays "No Signal" and the PCI-E LED lights up on the motherboard. However I can hear the windows boot sound through my speakers indicating that even though I cannot see anything on my monitor the PC has actually booted successfully into the Windows OS.
I then power down the PC and then power it on again straight after, this causes it to boot without issue and I can see the monitor fine. I did this (powering it on and off till it booted into the Windows OS and displayed fine on the monitor) for two days, then I though I may as well just leave the PC on and save myself the trouble. I did this for about a week. Then one day I accidentally clicked shut-down instead of logout and the PC would not boot at all after that.
The issue was somewhat the same, I would power the PC on, "No Signal" displays on the monitor and the PCI-E LED would light up again, however with my speakers turned on there would be no Windows boot sound. This indicates that the PC was no longer booting into windows as before and had completely stopped working.
I then put my two ASUS GTX 560TIs back into the PC, powered it on and it worked straight away, no fuss or trouble at all.
At this point I contacted OcUK and arranged the RMA, sent back the card for testing and have received this message back. "Graphics card posts fine. Ran heaven benchmark on extreme settings for 48 hours.". This shows that OcUK managed to boot into windows without issue.
I must urge, all drivers and the bios were as up to date as I could get them. If they were not running a newer version at any point it was for testing purpose or because they simply were not available. However, at some point everything was running on it's latest firmware.
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EDIT: There appears to be a new bios out for my motherboard that shows these fixes:
1.Improve compatibility with Windows 8 OS.
2.Improve system stability.
3.Enhance compatibility with some USB devices.
4.Fixed Nvidia GTX 680 hang when running with UEFI driver.
5.Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
I will try this as soon as my card arrives but I'm not holding out much hope.
EDIT 2: Did nothing issue persists.
Okay, the spec:
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 PRO REV 3.1
RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz DDR3 RAM
Power Supply: NZXT Hale90 700W PSU
Graphics: 2x ASUS GTX 560TIs Factory Overclocked (*MSI GTX 670 Power Edition)
Sound: ASUS Xonar DGX Sound Card
Storage: Crucial M4 128GB SSD
Processor: Intel Core i7 2600k 3.8Ghz
Cooling: Corsair A50 Heatsink
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
*Card shown in Italic/Yellow is the one that is faulty, the other two cards in SLI work without any issue no matter what.
Okay, the issue:
I would power on the PC, and everything would start up, the monitor displays "No Signal" and the PCI-E LED lights up on the motherboard. However I can hear the windows boot sound through my speakers indicating that even though I cannot see anything on my monitor the PC has actually booted successfully into the Windows OS.
I then power down the PC and then power it on again straight after, this causes it to boot without issue and I can see the monitor fine. I did this (powering it on and off till it booted into the Windows OS and displayed fine on the monitor) for two days, then I though I may as well just leave the PC on and save myself the trouble. I did this for about a week. Then one day I accidentally clicked shut-down instead of logout and the PC would not boot at all after that.
The issue was somewhat the same, I would power the PC on, "No Signal" displays on the monitor and the PCI-E LED would light up again, however with my speakers turned on there would be no Windows boot sound. This indicates that the PC was no longer booting into windows as before and had completely stopped working.
I then put my two ASUS GTX 560TIs back into the PC, powered it on and it worked straight away, no fuss or trouble at all.
At this point I contacted OcUK and arranged the RMA, sent back the card for testing and have received this message back. "Graphics card posts fine. Ran heaven benchmark on extreme settings for 48 hours.". This shows that OcUK managed to boot into windows without issue.
I must urge, all drivers and the bios were as up to date as I could get them. If they were not running a newer version at any point it was for testing purpose or because they simply were not available. However, at some point everything was running on it's latest firmware.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
EDIT: There appears to be a new bios out for my motherboard that shows these fixes:
1.Improve compatibility with Windows 8 OS.
2.Improve system stability.
3.Enhance compatibility with some USB devices.
4.Fixed Nvidia GTX 680 hang when running with UEFI driver.
5.Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
I will try this as soon as my card arrives but I'm not holding out much hope.
EDIT 2: Did nothing issue persists.
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