Recently I upgraded my video card to the new EVGA Geforce GTX 960. After reading multiple threads and articles I saw PCI-E 3.0 is backwards compatible. I previously had an EVGA Geforce GTX 9800+ PCI-E 2.0. Once I installed the new card the system does receive video but when it gets to the point where it would boot into windows the machine just restarts. I put the old video card back in, the system boots fine. This is a computer I built back in 2009 and upgraded every so often through the years. The following is the specs for my machine:
EVGA E758-TR 3-Way SLI (x16/x16/x8) LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
9GB Corsair XMS DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
Intel I7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHZ Quad-Core
Thermaltake Blackwidow TR2 RX 850 Watt Power Supply
I am currently running windows 7. I have considered flashing the BIOS but I would rather exhaust all other options before doing this.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
EVGA E758-TR 3-Way SLI (x16/x16/x8) LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
9GB Corsair XMS DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
Intel I7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHZ Quad-Core
Thermaltake Blackwidow TR2 RX 850 Watt Power Supply
I am currently running windows 7. I have considered flashing the BIOS but I would rather exhaust all other options before doing this.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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