Upgraded Card - Slow Boot

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RhinoBW

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Hello,

Yesterday, I had swapped out my HIS IceQ Radeon HD 7970 for an EVGA GeForce GTX 970 FTW. Before doing so I uninstalled my video drivers, in safe mode, using the Guru3D tool. Upon installing the new card, I immediately boot up the system and installed the necessary drivers.

When I had first boot the computer with my new video card, I had noticed that it took a very long time to boot past the bios screen. I had thought that this was due to the changes and it would be remedied after installing the necessary drivers for my new card; However, it has remained the same.

I have the OS installed to the SSD and once it moves past the bios, the rest of the boot process is as quick as it ever was. Additionally, I do not experience any issues past this point and I had played Farcry 4 for a couple of hours, last night, with no problems.

Things that I have tried:
I ran CCleaner on both the registry (twice now) and the cleaner itself.
I have combed through all of my installed programs with no trace of anything related to ATI.
I have ran a virus scan with zero issues found.
 
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Check if your BIOS boot settings and see if it's set to check every component each boot, it's really only necessary when adding new hardware. Different BIOS's name it differently.

If you have an older motherboard, I would also check for a BIOS update.
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Check if your BIOS boot settings and see if it's set to check every component each boot, it's really only necessary when adding new hardware. Different BIOS's name it differently.

If you have an older motherboard, I would also check for a BIOS update.
 
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RhinoBW

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Trying to enter the BIOS isn't working so well. I'm not sure what the deal is, but pressing the keys doesn't take me into the BIOS menu. If I continually press the button to enter the BIOS, until the BIOS finally loads through, the screen goes black and I have to reboot the tower. This is a first for me..
 
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Reset the BIOS to defaults using the jumper on the motherboard. Shut down, power off (use the PSU switch, or if there isn't one, unplug for a minute). Move the jumper (typically located near the battery), wait ten seconds, then move it back. Plug in (or switch on) and power up. What happens?
 
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RhinoBW

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I haven't gotten around to Onus's suggestion yet. I am concerned about resetting the BIOS because I really don't know how to set it back up, or how to OC my CPU back to where it is now (nor do I know what those stable settings may be).

My mobo is a Gigabyte Z77-D3H with an i5 3570k OC'd to 3.8ghz.

I would really hate to start messing with the BIOS more than I have to; The only real issue is a slower boot time, everything else is great. Although, I am starting to feel more and more than that is the only next logical step if I want to solve this problem.
 
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junkeymonkey

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try this -- remove the cards drivers the remove the card the hook up to the onboard/chip vga resteat on it then remove the intel onchip vga driver so it will be on the Microsoft standard vga driver then shout down and chang back over to the card [ make sure the bios setting is changed as you go from onboard to pci-e -- I have read where the intel driver may conflict .. why don't know but a guy said that's what worked for him ??

just another shot to get you going if you want to try that ??
 
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RhinoBW

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Swapping the HD 7970 back in allowed me to finally enter back into the BIOS and update to a newer version. After setting the BIOS back up and re-installing the 970 FTW, I have no longer had any issues. The old firmware was apparently too dated. Thanks everyone for the help.
 
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