My Bios doesnt work with new GPU

Scott Tenorman

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I just finished my first build. The power's on everything is working. At first when I had the Gigabyte GTX 770 4GB installed the CP would short beep once and there would be no display. The fans were running. I took the GPU out and tried again. This time Bios works perfectly, but still the same beep. I Dont understand how to get the Gpu working. As this is the first time working with bios. my motherboard is ASUS Z87-a. my PSU is a corsiar TX 750. I have a total of 5 120mm fans running. I could sure use some pointers. is it because I need to install the GPU drivers? I cant put window in yet because my DVD drive has not been shipped. Hopefully i can get this figured out. I'm really excited to get this working
 
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Hi. You need to have the drivers installed for the card to be recognized, and you can't do that until you have your Operation System installed. You also do not have the Motherboard drivers installed as yey and can't until you have the Operating system installed. If you got a single beep, then all is fine. Just need to install the OS & Drivers.
scott with newer intel and amd they have onboard video. in the bios most mb vendor set the primany display to auto by default. when it set to auto the mb can bounce from the onboard or the gpu at cold post. also with some mb and newer cards it can also be a bios bug. with the gpu out set the primany display to peg/pci and under it turn on muilt monitor support for now. it leave the onboard video on incase the mb has a bios bug. in the bios check to see if the mb bios is at the newest rev.
 
Hi. You need to have the drivers installed for the card to be recognized, and you can't do that until you have your Operation System installed. You also do not have the Motherboard drivers installed as yey and can't until you have the Operating system installed. If you got a single beep, then all is fine. Just need to install the OS & Drivers.
 
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Yep when you hit F2 or delete

The primary bios output display is sent to the on board graphics ports of the motherboard.
You need to move the Dvi,D sub, or Hdmi to the board.

In the bios set the Pci-e first in the list, save the settings before exiting.
Swap the cable back to the Pci-e card and your good to go after that.
 

Scott Tenorman

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Ok Ill have to wait until I can get Windows installed, then the Drivers. Then if that doesnt work then Ill try what smorzio mentioned. Thanks to the both of you. too bad you cant choose multiple solutions.
 
If you are running Windows 7, they generally have a good Library of drivers. Windows 7 has been around a lot longer than the card. My guess that they haven't caught up with the Drivers ( Generic usually to allow you to use the card to get what you need installed ). I am running a GTX 680 and initailly installed it on an ASUS z68 board running a 2600k. I up graded this past June to an ASUS z87 board with 4770k and had no issues. I suppose that Windows had caught up with the GTX 6xx drivers. Once you get your potical drive installed, then you can run on the integrated ggraphics and install you OS, then Motherboard stuff, then the Graphics card drivers and stuff. You should be able to switch to the card with no problems.
 


You haven't read this. He doesn't have an Optical drive yet, so hasn't installed the Operating System, therefore no drivers. If he has the monitor hooked to the Graphics port ( DVI ) on the motherboard, he should see the ASUS splash screen, meaning it has passed post and get the single beep. Until the drivers for the card are installed, it will not be recognized, in all likelyhood.
 


Sorry yeah your right, I missed the bit about him saying it works in bios.
 
to the op if you have a four gig usb stick use the microsoft iso to usb tool make a windows installer usb stick from your cd. after you have windows on your hard drive copy over the ethernet drivers or wifi drivers then go online and get the newest drivers for your mb.
 


I had thought about the flash drive when I was doing that last post and forgot about it. It should work, although the USB stuff ( controllers ) is on the motherboard disk.
 

Scott Tenorman

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thanks I had the idea already for booting with a USB. my internet is slow atm but I'm in the process of downloading windows, then ill pick up a 4gb stick. Thanks everyone for the help.
 

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Ignore all that crap about drivers, ALL graphic cards display post without any drivers at all, drivers are only needed for the OS, the user says he has no display at all ...
Your graphic card must be installed properly, did you connect the power to the graphics card?
check this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9x097QRXeA
 

Scott Tenorman

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I got it working. I borrowed my friends Windows 7 CD and used IMGBURN to make it an ISO file. In BIOS I checked the USB as main Boot. I then installed Windows, then I did the same thing with my ASUS drivers CD that came with the MB: put all files on the USB and installed those.

It turns out however that I couldnt install my GPU drivers without actually having the hardware in the computer. All I needed to do then was change the main display in BIOS to PCI-E and Voila everything checks out.

Now my new problem is that windows is not recognizing my Harddrive. I also have a SSD drive with windows installed on it which is working fine. In BIOS it does read my SSD and hardrive. What steps should I take to solve this?