Plugged in new graphics card, system not happy

uncle_rufus · 28 Feb 2013 at 22:32

Hey all,

So I built a new system recently, i7 3770K, Gigabyte Z77 D3H... And originally I had just re-used my GTX560Ti from my previous machine. I decided to upgrade that as well and just got an MSI GTX670 Power Edition

However... I just plugged the new card in and the system doesn't seem to like it, I get the Gigabyte splash/post screen come up but I can't press anything to get into the BIOS/Boot Menu/etc/ and it just sits on that screen for a while before eventually going to a black screen and then sometimes a strange red screen with bizarre little white and black lines on it.

If I unplug the card and plug my screen into my motherboard instead I get normal operation, I can get into the BIOS, boot one of my OS's and so on, but as soon as I plug the card back in it just sits there :confused:

I've re-seated it a couple of times now, power cables are all plugged in correctly (and like I said if I remove the card everything works fine).

So I'm a bit stuck... Anyone got any ideas please?

uncle_rufus · 28 Feb 2013 at 22:40

It's on a fairly recent one I think - F16 (They are on 18 or 19 now)

Could it be that it's somehow picking up settings for my old card (not sure why the BIOS would but this UEFI stuff is a bit new to me)? Unfortunately the old card is gone so I can't put it back in

uncle_rufus · 28 Feb 2013 at 23:03

I've got an Antec CP-850 (It's the non-standard sized one designed to fit in the Antec P183)...

I'd be able to get into the BIOS even if the GPU was a dud though right? I can't even get past the splash screen - they keyboard is clearly working because I can Ctrl+Alt+Del triggering a reboot, but I can't press any of the keys to get into the various BIOS options.

I just tried booting without the card and hitting "Load Optimized Defaults" in the BIOS, but I get the same result when I put the card back in. I guess it's time to have a go at flashing the BIOS, wish me luck!

Haven't tried CMOS, what can I use as a jumper?

uncle_rufus · 28 Feb 2013 at 23:38

Hmm :S let's hope I'll be okay after a BIOS update.

So I've got the latest (non-beta) BIOS from Gigabyte's site (F18), and put it on a FAT32 formatted usb drive as per the instructions. Now when I try to flash using that file in Q-Flash it just says "Warning: File Size Incorrect" and I cannot proceed.

I saw a thread at tweaktown suggesting that I have to use @BIOS first because the newer BIOSes are larger file sizes:
http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/45592-q-flash-error-incorrect-file-size.html

How do I do that though?

On a side note, since it sounded from the link above like I need to go into Windows for it I just tried to boot in and I get a bsod just as windows tries to load

uncle_rufus · 1 Mar 2013 at 07:28

My board is the Z77-D3H wazza, rather than Z77X-D3H so I've flashed to F18 just now (thanks though)

The flash seems to have gone through correclty (I extracted the files properly first as described above (Doh!!!). Now to plug the card in and hope for the best.

Also randal - spot on it had reset to IDE!

Update: Made it into the BIOS!!! Well done guys your help has been awesome, I didn't expect any less

Now my next problem is resetting the bios has caused it to lose the boot options for my Linux OS and my EFI bootloader (rEFIned)... Off to the Linux forum to try and work this one out I think!