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New graphics card causing B2 black screen

Masterdeadly

Masterdeadly

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Hi guys,

As the title says, I've bought a new Galax 970 and when I boot up I'm met by a black screen with a hyphen in one corner and 'B2' on the lower right corner. This hangs for about 3 minutes until eventually loading windows.

I've tried updating my motherboards BIOS (MSI Z77A-G45). When I download the BIOS update via live update 6, I run the download, the computer restarts and I check Live Update to see that the current BIOS version hasn't changed.

Because of this I tried downloading it from their site, however when I try to run the update it says it's not compatible with my version of windows (64 bit). Another thing I've tried is clearing CMOS but no luck.

Any ideas?
 
What Galax do you have the EXOC or the reference ?

I can check later what bios version my cards are running and get back to you if your running an EXOC

Have you tried reseating the card and changing slots ?
 
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try downloading/extracting bios to a usb stick and update it through your boards bios pages

there should be a bios flashing utility inside there
 
Hi,

Don't use the MSI live update utility, I had the same issue with my MSI Z68A-GD55 mainboard and a GTX 980. MSI live update did update my bios but not to the latest version, I had to download it manually from the MSI site and run it.

The latest bios version for your mainboard is version 2.C, download it from the MSI site and copy it over to a memory stick. Shutdown your pc and remove the 970 and switch over to onboard video, this also allows you to enter the bios again! At this stage consider backing up the current bios should the upgrade fail! to do this enter the bios and open the bios update section, sorry can't remember the exact name, there will be an option to backup your bios to a memory stick, just follow the instructions to do it.

Boot back to windows and run the new bios update from the memory stick, pc will reboot and continue updating, don't take out the memory stick or power off the pc!

When the bios update has completed enter the bios and check the version, make sure its updated, also check that your SATA mode has not defaulted to factory settings, mine reverted to IDE mode and my pc failed to boot, mine had to be AHCI but yours could be different. Save and exit the bios, turn off pc, install 970 and switch back on, hopefully now the problem has gone.

You will probably need to reinstall the NVidia drivers again if windows has defaulted to a basic video driver.
 
wazza300 said:
try downloading/extracting bios to a usb stick and update it through your boards bios pages

there should be a bios flashing utility inside there
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Did this as suggested and the motherboard now recognises the GPU fine! No more B2 screen :) thank you very much.


Just seen your post NUFCRulez and that's practically exactly what I did to get it working. Thank you also.
 
Friend had this same problem with the MSI Z68 MoBo I gave him, even with the Live Utility loading up a very old bios. Told him about the latest bios and had no more problems :)
 
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