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Lost Display After GPU Removal

Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

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As title, I've removed my 670's in anticipation of the arrival of my 970 tomorrow. I thought I could plug my monitor into my mobo hdmi port and still use the PC, but unfortunately the machine seems to boot but no display is to be had.

It's this normal?
 
Make sure you have latest Mobo Bios even a Beta for the new GPU, less headache.

Use the newest Nvidia driver out the other day for the newer GPU.
 
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String said:
Come to think about it, I'm sure I disabled it to get a proper heaven benchmark score. I don't want to clear CMOS as I'll lose my overclock settings. Hopefully all is good when I slot the 970 in.
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Why not just change the setting? You don't need to clear the CMOS.
 
String said:
Ah, sorry I should have been more clear. The 670's were under water so can't go back in without reinstating the loop.
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Ahh, I see! That makes sense and I'm with you, not worth the hassle.

Yeah, your only options here really are to wipe CMOS or wait. For future reference, I find it helps to write down all your OC settings, so if the bios ever gets wiped you can just fill them back in. I know that doesn't help you now, but perhaps something to do later. :p
 
benjii said:
Ahh, I see! That makes sense and I'm with you, not worth the hassle.

Yeah, your only options here really are to wipe CMOS or wait. For future reference, I find it helps to write down all your OC settings, so if the bios ever gets wiped you can just fill them back in. I know that doesn't help you now, but perhaps something to do later. :p
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Yep, lesson learned!
 
If the 670s were under water, you I assume have full cover blocks on them.

I'd put one back in and set IGP enabled on bios without water flowing through it. Should take you less than 90 seconds, won't be gaming, so just 2D clocks, and you will be shut down again before the copper warms up. Card will shut down if it overheats anyway.

When I had a 7990, I jammed the fans and ran fire strike to see how long it took to shutdown (I wanted the card to die so I could RMA it....) but it took about 5 mins and then shut down.
 
rtho782 said:
When I had a 7990, I jammed the fans and ran fire strike to see how long it took to shutdown (I wanted the card to die so I could RMA it....) but it took about 5 mins and then shut down.
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That's a fun experiment! Although to be fair you will have still had a big heatsink working in your favour, whereas a little bit of copper will heat up quickly.
 
I would wait, but you could fill up the waterblock with water so it will take more time for it to heat up and you would have enough time to enable the IGPU.
 
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