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Problems with Gigabyte 7970 windforce 3oc

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November 29, 2013 6:13:28 AM

I was wondering if anyone has had issue with this card. I ordered three of them and an ASrock 970 extreme 4. Cannot get the system to boot with any one of the three cards. I also tried putting each of the cards into my other setup (its a newer gigabyte MoBo but I don't remeber the exact modle) and the same thing, the system will not boot. Power turns on, the CPU, GPU, and case fans all come on but nothing displays on any o/p. I've tried all the PCI slots, different Ram sticks, two PSU's, preloading the drivers before installing the card, checked every power connection repeatedly, and its the same every time, the second any of those cards go in the computer stops working. I can't imagine I got three bad cards so I must be doing something wrong, but what could it be that I can't even load the BIOS? At this point I will take any suggestions as I am completely out of ideas. Thanks for reading.

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November 29, 2013 6:39:04 AM

When you say nothing displays, it seems to me like you've got your monitor plugged into something wrong. When you plug your GPU in, do you plug your monitor into that same GPU? If you do, plug in into your motherboard. The driver for the GPU is not installed and it may output until the driver is installed.
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November 29, 2013 6:47:34 AM

captinchikin said:
When you say nothing displays, it seems to me like you've got your monitor plugged into something wrong. When you plug your GPU in, do you plug your monitor into that same GPU? If you do, plug in into your motherboard. The driver for the GPU is not installed and it may output until the driver is installed.


I have tried every o/p on the card and the o/p's on the gigabyte Mobo (the Asrock doesn't have any builtin graphic o/p) I do not unfortuantely have a system speaker so I can't hear any boot sounds but the reason I think its not booting is I can start it, let it run for a few mins and then power it down with the back switch and then when I pull the card and start back up I don't get the "windows was not sht down properly" message leading me to believe it never booted in the first place. I have tried two different hardrives with the drivers installed as well to no avail.
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November 29, 2013 7:26:30 AM

Do your PSUs provide enough power and were the power connectors plugged into the cards?

If you have a card other than these three and it works fine on both systems, then safe to say you're another victim of the Gigabyte Windfarce.

In that case return the cards. Gigabyte don't seem to care much about their graphics card anymore. They just use the same boring cooler on every card made.

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November 29, 2013 7:36:28 AM

Do you really think I could have gotten three bad cards at once?
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November 29, 2013 7:45:29 AM

Not impossible. Could be from the same batch of zombie cards.
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November 29, 2013 7:49:03 AM

huilun02 said:
Not impossible. Could be from the same batch of zombie cards.


True, hope thats not the case but it certainly is possible. Also thanks for the input.
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