- Aug 4, 2013
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Hey all,
I just purchased a EVGA 760 because my 560 Ti is officially quite long in the tooth. However, I'm having trouble with installation. I'm not an expert by any means but I'm not completely new at this, I built my comp from scratch and have upgraded every part in it multiple times. Just putting that out there so you know that I've been smart and taken all the steps like grounding myself every time to avoid static, etc.
Here are some brief specs:
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3
EVGA GTX 760 4GB VRAM
700W PSU
AMD FX 8320 @ 3.5 (not OC'd)
20 Gigs RAM
Windows 8.1 64 Bit
Running OS off of a 2TB SSHD and have a spare 120G SSD
Now, for the record, within the last week I 86'd my old HDD because it was WAY on the fritz and was like 8 years old, upgrading to a 2TB SSHD for cheap. I had some troubles installing it (Windows 8 reached the "Personalization" stage of the installation and then was trying to output at 1080p bc of my monitor, and my onboard video could obviously not manage since I didn't have my Gfx drivers bc it was a brand new SSHD). In order to get past this, I had to install Windows 7, update my 560 Ti drivers to the latest, and then upgrade to Windows 8. I then installed Windows 8.1 on top without any problems. It's been running like a dream since then.
At first I just plugged and played, doing it as I have done in the past with graphics card replacements. When booting it up, it would show the BIOS splash screen, do the little cursor/underscore blink it does before Windows pops up...and then it would flash past that, and have the little underscore farther to the right of the screen then where it normally is (in the top left hand corner). There were ellipses leading up to the underscore, and instead of blinking, it was frozen. The computer then hung at this screen.
I messed around with multiple hard resets, and tried going into my BIOS menu. When I went to Boot Setup or my BIOS setup menu, the screen would be a blacklit black, receiving a video feed but not displaying anything. After messing around with this for a while and making no apparent process, I decided to try to install the drivers and then try again. So I pulled out the 760, put in the 560 Ti (which still works perfectly), and downloaded the latest drivers for the 760 from Nvidia's site. I also lowered my resolution to 1024x760 in case that was SOMEHOW the problem. Still had the same exact problems with the 760. At this point I've put the 560 back in and am back to square one.
The 760's fans are running just fine and I know that it's receiving power (I unplugged one of the PCI power cords leading to it at one point and before the BIOS splash screen on that boot it told me to plug it in. At this point I'm bamboozled. Does my PSU not have enough wattage? Is the card just dead? Is it an issue that I'm running it in a PCI 2.0 slot instead of a PCI 3.0 slot (even though I've heard that's just fine to do)?
I appreciate the help.
I just purchased a EVGA 760 because my 560 Ti is officially quite long in the tooth. However, I'm having trouble with installation. I'm not an expert by any means but I'm not completely new at this, I built my comp from scratch and have upgraded every part in it multiple times. Just putting that out there so you know that I've been smart and taken all the steps like grounding myself every time to avoid static, etc.
Here are some brief specs:
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3
EVGA GTX 760 4GB VRAM
700W PSU
AMD FX 8320 @ 3.5 (not OC'd)
20 Gigs RAM
Windows 8.1 64 Bit
Running OS off of a 2TB SSHD and have a spare 120G SSD
Now, for the record, within the last week I 86'd my old HDD because it was WAY on the fritz and was like 8 years old, upgrading to a 2TB SSHD for cheap. I had some troubles installing it (Windows 8 reached the "Personalization" stage of the installation and then was trying to output at 1080p bc of my monitor, and my onboard video could obviously not manage since I didn't have my Gfx drivers bc it was a brand new SSHD). In order to get past this, I had to install Windows 7, update my 560 Ti drivers to the latest, and then upgrade to Windows 8. I then installed Windows 8.1 on top without any problems. It's been running like a dream since then.
At first I just plugged and played, doing it as I have done in the past with graphics card replacements. When booting it up, it would show the BIOS splash screen, do the little cursor/underscore blink it does before Windows pops up...and then it would flash past that, and have the little underscore farther to the right of the screen then where it normally is (in the top left hand corner). There were ellipses leading up to the underscore, and instead of blinking, it was frozen. The computer then hung at this screen.
I messed around with multiple hard resets, and tried going into my BIOS menu. When I went to Boot Setup or my BIOS setup menu, the screen would be a blacklit black, receiving a video feed but not displaying anything. After messing around with this for a while and making no apparent process, I decided to try to install the drivers and then try again. So I pulled out the 760, put in the 560 Ti (which still works perfectly), and downloaded the latest drivers for the 760 from Nvidia's site. I also lowered my resolution to 1024x760 in case that was SOMEHOW the problem. Still had the same exact problems with the 760. At this point I've put the 560 back in and am back to square one.
The 760's fans are running just fine and I know that it's receiving power (I unplugged one of the PCI power cords leading to it at one point and before the BIOS splash screen on that boot it told me to plug it in. At this point I'm bamboozled. Does my PSU not have enough wattage? Is the card just dead? Is it an issue that I'm running it in a PCI 2.0 slot instead of a PCI 3.0 slot (even though I've heard that's just fine to do)?
I appreciate the help.
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