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Evening folks,
Having a bit of a mare the last few days.
Specs
Asus P8Z77-V (1155)
i5 2500k (OCed to 4.5)
12800 Kingston HyperX Genesis 16gb
EVGA 970 SC
Formatted about 10 days ago, as fancied a bit of a fresh start on the PC as I use it 95% for gaming, and wanted rid of all the clutter.
Installed Windows 7, all the chipset drivers (via the cd) and the nvidia drivers, and everything was fine. Although I did have an issue finding a driver for some PCI Express thing - although I later found this on the Asus website (Note that I installed the nvidia drivers before solving this).
Everything worked fine, and I was gaming away
Cut to Thursday of this week, and I boot the pc into windows. On the desktop for a few seconds and I hear two quick beeps and lose the gpu signal. Restart, and I get constant no signal. Take card out, check power cables etc etc - same thing.
Swap the cable over to the onboard, and it lets me into windows (says no signal until the booting windows screen, so no access to bios). Doesn't show anything about the GPU in device manager - although this could be due to being via onboard video (I don't know). Uninstall nvidia drivers - reboot. Shut the machine down, and swap back over to GPU. Seems to work fine, boot into windows, install nvidia drivers - and happy gaming all night.
Next day - boot pc - no signal. Follow the above steps, fixes it again. Although this time I install all the latest chipset drivers for mobo from asus site as well.
Today - boot pc - boots into windows, and loses the signal. Follow the above steps - although this time no signal. I popped my 970 into another PC and it worked first time. I popped it back into this - and it worked again. Although I notice that the sound from the mobo is no longer working.
Just formatted again - 970 works fine so far - loaded up a few games and all are ok. Sound still doesn't work. Although I can get sound via my USB headphones.
Throughout most steps above, I've had access to my old 560ti, which has worked every time I have put it into my machine. I've also had another PC that I put the 970 into tonight - and it worked fine.
I basically can't work out if I have a dodgy GPU, or Motherboard.
What's your thoughts? Anything that would help me narrow the issue down?
I was intentionally trying not to upgrade my mobo/cpu for as long as possible, as my OCed 2500k still performs fantastic for anything I throw at it.
(It may also be worth noting that my windows 7 is one of those pre authenticated ones I've downloaded) Happy to buy a legit copy if someone reckons this will help.
Thanks for your time,
Having a bit of a mare the last few days.
Specs
Asus P8Z77-V (1155)
i5 2500k (OCed to 4.5)
12800 Kingston HyperX Genesis 16gb
EVGA 970 SC
Formatted about 10 days ago, as fancied a bit of a fresh start on the PC as I use it 95% for gaming, and wanted rid of all the clutter.
Installed Windows 7, all the chipset drivers (via the cd) and the nvidia drivers, and everything was fine. Although I did have an issue finding a driver for some PCI Express thing - although I later found this on the Asus website (Note that I installed the nvidia drivers before solving this).
Everything worked fine, and I was gaming away
Cut to Thursday of this week, and I boot the pc into windows. On the desktop for a few seconds and I hear two quick beeps and lose the gpu signal. Restart, and I get constant no signal. Take card out, check power cables etc etc - same thing.
Swap the cable over to the onboard, and it lets me into windows (says no signal until the booting windows screen, so no access to bios). Doesn't show anything about the GPU in device manager - although this could be due to being via onboard video (I don't know). Uninstall nvidia drivers - reboot. Shut the machine down, and swap back over to GPU. Seems to work fine, boot into windows, install nvidia drivers - and happy gaming all night.
Next day - boot pc - no signal. Follow the above steps, fixes it again. Although this time I install all the latest chipset drivers for mobo from asus site as well.
Today - boot pc - boots into windows, and loses the signal. Follow the above steps - although this time no signal. I popped my 970 into another PC and it worked first time. I popped it back into this - and it worked again. Although I notice that the sound from the mobo is no longer working.
Just formatted again - 970 works fine so far - loaded up a few games and all are ok. Sound still doesn't work. Although I can get sound via my USB headphones.
Throughout most steps above, I've had access to my old 560ti, which has worked every time I have put it into my machine. I've also had another PC that I put the 970 into tonight - and it worked fine.
I basically can't work out if I have a dodgy GPU, or Motherboard.
What's your thoughts? Anything that would help me narrow the issue down?
I was intentionally trying not to upgrade my mobo/cpu for as long as possible, as my OCed 2500k still performs fantastic for anything I throw at it.
(It may also be worth noting that my windows 7 is one of those pre authenticated ones I've downloaded) Happy to buy a legit copy if someone reckons this will help.
Thanks for your time,
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