Hi All,
First post here, hopefully the first of many!
I’m having a few issues with one of my new purchases and was hoping one of you experts on this board could help with troubleshooting advice. (Please forgive me for the length of this post)
I recently bought KFA2 Geforce GTX 780Ti HOF 3GB GPU from overclockers, it arrived promptly and in good condition, no complaints there. I installed it into my system, replacing my trusty GTX 670 and booted my system.
During the system start up the BIOS splash-screen took extremely long, going from 2-5 seconds when using my 670 to 90 seconds with the 780ti.
One thing I immediately noticed, is that with my 670, the GPU initialization screen (not sure if this is correct terminology for the screen, just a black screen during start-up with white text displaying some information about the GPU model and BIOS I believe) used to display before hitting the BIOS splash whereas with the 780ti this occurs after the BIOS splash.
Once passing this BIOS splash screen with the 780ti, the system boots into windows – sometimes.
But before we move onto that, another issue I noticed. When trying to access the bios (by spamming DEL button during the 90 second wait) the 780 “initialization” screen does not appear after the bios splash (expected) but then the screen just goes black and no BIOS interface is loaded. The screen just stays black and nothing seems to happen. After this occurs, I shut down the PC manually and try to boot again, this time not trying to access BIOS, but the same occurs. No GPU initialization screen, just black screen after BIOS splash, this occurred around 5 times. To fix this I simply turned the PC off at the plug for a couple of minutes, turned it back on and this time it booted into Windows. So it seems the BIOS interface is not accessible.
When I am able to boot into windows, the card seems fine, bar a few driver issues when first installing the card, and games crashing when trying to enable On Screen Displays for FPS counters through MSI afterburner / Nvidia ShadowPlay. Other than that the card has been performing fine in games for long sessions.
Fast forward to this morning, I try to turn on my PC and again it is doing the black screen after BIOS splash. I haven’t been able to investigate / solve as I had to go to work, but will investigate later. I am going to try a different HDMI cable / monitor tonight, along with switching the PCI-e slot the card is in/removing the card and checking BIOS settings with old card.
If anyone has any suggestions on troubleshooting this issue, or any potential fixes, or any advice, it would be greatly appreciated!
Quick Summary
- New GPU
- BIOS splash screen take 90 seconds to get past (previously 2-5 seconds)
- Cannot seem to access BIOS
- Windows boot does not always work, sometimes just loads to black screen
Further Information:
Specs
PSU: OCZ ZS 750w PSU
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
CPU: Intel i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.20GHz
RAM: TeamGroup Elite 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
OS: Win7 Ultimate
First post here, hopefully the first of many!
I’m having a few issues with one of my new purchases and was hoping one of you experts on this board could help with troubleshooting advice. (Please forgive me for the length of this post)
I recently bought KFA2 Geforce GTX 780Ti HOF 3GB GPU from overclockers, it arrived promptly and in good condition, no complaints there. I installed it into my system, replacing my trusty GTX 670 and booted my system.
During the system start up the BIOS splash-screen took extremely long, going from 2-5 seconds when using my 670 to 90 seconds with the 780ti.
One thing I immediately noticed, is that with my 670, the GPU initialization screen (not sure if this is correct terminology for the screen, just a black screen during start-up with white text displaying some information about the GPU model and BIOS I believe) used to display before hitting the BIOS splash whereas with the 780ti this occurs after the BIOS splash.
Once passing this BIOS splash screen with the 780ti, the system boots into windows – sometimes.
But before we move onto that, another issue I noticed. When trying to access the bios (by spamming DEL button during the 90 second wait) the 780 “initialization” screen does not appear after the bios splash (expected) but then the screen just goes black and no BIOS interface is loaded. The screen just stays black and nothing seems to happen. After this occurs, I shut down the PC manually and try to boot again, this time not trying to access BIOS, but the same occurs. No GPU initialization screen, just black screen after BIOS splash, this occurred around 5 times. To fix this I simply turned the PC off at the plug for a couple of minutes, turned it back on and this time it booted into Windows. So it seems the BIOS interface is not accessible.
When I am able to boot into windows, the card seems fine, bar a few driver issues when first installing the card, and games crashing when trying to enable On Screen Displays for FPS counters through MSI afterburner / Nvidia ShadowPlay. Other than that the card has been performing fine in games for long sessions.
Fast forward to this morning, I try to turn on my PC and again it is doing the black screen after BIOS splash. I haven’t been able to investigate / solve as I had to go to work, but will investigate later. I am going to try a different HDMI cable / monitor tonight, along with switching the PCI-e slot the card is in/removing the card and checking BIOS settings with old card.
If anyone has any suggestions on troubleshooting this issue, or any potential fixes, or any advice, it would be greatly appreciated!
Quick Summary
- New GPU
- BIOS splash screen take 90 seconds to get past (previously 2-5 seconds)
- Cannot seem to access BIOS
- Windows boot does not always work, sometimes just loads to black screen
Further Information:
Specs
PSU: OCZ ZS 750w PSU
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
CPU: Intel i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.20GHz
RAM: TeamGroup Elite 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
OS: Win7 Ultimate
