Dead Card? Windows Can't find it

[Daston]

Hi guys,

I was having a boot issue with windows, it would lock up on start up. After trying to solve that I decided to do a fresh install on a 2nd HDD to see if it still broke down.

I have installed all the Motherboard drivers and Windows will not pick up my 780GTX. I have tried installing the drivers only for the Nvidia install to say it can't find any matching Hardware.

So far I have done the following:

Disabled onboard graphics both in windows and bios
Moved the gfx card to a 2nd PCI-E slot
Installed all windows updates

Windows is running off the cards DVI socket without an issue but using the MoBo GPU.

Any ideas would be great

 

[wazza300]

what board? and was it working fine before

 

[Daston]

That helps lol

It's a Asus Sabertooth Z77.

PC was working fine, spent last friday sat on Rome 2 with no problems at all (was the first time I used the PC in a week) and then turned it on Monday and it failed to boot.

 

[wazza300]

if it crashed badly it can cause detection problems sometimes

id clear the cmos first,leave out the mb battery a good 10 minutes,then try with the gpu

could also be cold boot problem if pc was left off for a length of time

 

[Daston]

Right given that a go and still no joy

I do happen to have a random USB driver that for the life of me I can't seem to install.

 

[wazza300]

I cant think whatelse you can try tbh

it should detect it,as for usb driver are you getting latest ones of asus website? could be for usb3?

can try an overnight cmos/battery out and try cleaning the gold fingers on the gpu that slot into the mb

 

[nutsnut]

Does the GPU have a bios switch? Try the second one?

 

[Daston]

The GPU only has the one BIOS.

Will try the 780 in the wifes and see if it works.

If it still doesn't work I'll get it RMA'd

 

[Daston]

Got it to work!

Disabled the generic VGA controller in device manager.

Rebooted the PC

Updated the driver for the generic VGA controller and windows ended up installing the latest Nvidia Drivers.