Hi All,
I have an issue with my MSI Z97 Gaming AC mini-itx motherboard.
When I first booted the machine all was well however when I came to reboot my machine for the first time it no longer sees I have a GPU and so switched to the Intel onboard 4600.
At first I assumed the GPU had come lose or some BIOS setting needed changing. BIOS is set to use PEG (PCI-E Graphics card device) so i reseated the card and rebooted. This didn't work.
I reset the BIOS CMOS and that fixed the issue, my machine booted using the graphics card again however as soon I rebooted windows again it lost the card switching back to the onboard.
According to the BIOS the PCI-E slot is empty. I swapped the card out for an older ATI 7870 but had the same problem. PCI-E slot is empty unless I clear the CMOS (I made no changes in the BIOS).
At this point it sounds like some kind of software issue I have updated my BIOS to the latest version (1.5) but that hasn't fixed the issue. Whenever I shutdown or restart it will lose sight of my card unless I clear the CMOS or power down at the wall.
I have found a few people having a similure issue but none of them give a solution.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2176776/msi-z97-gaming-motherboard-geforce-gtx-770.html
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=181073.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=182164.0
SPEC:
Intel 4790k
Nvidia 970 GTX
MSI Z97i Gaming AC mini-itx
8GB 1866mhz Kingston
Corsair 600w PSU
I have an issue with my MSI Z97 Gaming AC mini-itx motherboard.
When I first booted the machine all was well however when I came to reboot my machine for the first time it no longer sees I have a GPU and so switched to the Intel onboard 4600.
At first I assumed the GPU had come lose or some BIOS setting needed changing. BIOS is set to use PEG (PCI-E Graphics card device) so i reseated the card and rebooted. This didn't work.
I reset the BIOS CMOS and that fixed the issue, my machine booted using the graphics card again however as soon I rebooted windows again it lost the card switching back to the onboard.
According to the BIOS the PCI-E slot is empty. I swapped the card out for an older ATI 7870 but had the same problem. PCI-E slot is empty unless I clear the CMOS (I made no changes in the BIOS).
At this point it sounds like some kind of software issue I have updated my BIOS to the latest version (1.5) but that hasn't fixed the issue. Whenever I shutdown or restart it will lose sight of my card unless I clear the CMOS or power down at the wall.
I have found a few people having a similure issue but none of them give a solution.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2176776/msi-z97-gaming-motherboard-geforce-gtx-770.html
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=181073.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=182164.0
SPEC:
Intel 4790k
Nvidia 970 GTX
MSI Z97i Gaming AC mini-itx
8GB 1866mhz Kingston
Corsair 600w PSU
