New 960 ftw just got installed and now pc wont post

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I recently bought a refurbed 960 ftw from newegg, mostly because im on a budget but I didnt want a 950 anyways. So i get the gpu in the mail today, I plug it into a pc with no previous graphics card being installed, so I make sure everything is in properly and bam I turn it on and no screen response, but however I went over to the pc shop not too long ago and I asked if they could test the part and they did, it posts. I ran a corsair cs450m gold cert and he ran an evga bronze 500w, and my pc would start running with fans kicking on and what not, the gpus fans would kick on and then shortly after about 15 seconds turn off. also the mobo is a very old one with pci-e gen 2. Also this is my mobo. http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z68%20Pro3-M/

Any help with what went wrong? and Im sorry if I couldn't provide more details
 
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early on in the 900 card days some z68 boards did have issues with the newer cards [you can google it ] some got bios updates to help capability some did not ?/

looking at your boars bios list there was only one bios listed from way back in 2012 [that don't help] it does have ''2. Improve discrete VGA card vBIOS compatibility'' ?? so be sure you got the 2.30 bios

notice these thread with z68 are also asrock??

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2661832/gtx-980-asrock-z68-extreme4-gen3.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2432814/z68-extreme3-gen3-recognizing-290-gpu.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2651767/asrock-z68-extreme3-gen3-980.html...
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early on in the 900 card days some z68 boards did have issues with the newer cards [you can google it ] some got bios updates to help capability some did not ?/

looking at your boars bios list there was only one bios listed from way back in 2012 [that don't help] it does have ''2. Improve discrete VGA card vBIOS compatibility'' ?? so be sure you got the 2.30 bios

notice these thread with z68 are also asrock??

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2661832/gtx-980-asrock-z68-extreme4-gen3.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2432814/z68-extreme3-gen3-recognizing-290-gpu.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2651767/asrock-z68-extreme3-gen3-980.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/2zhqta/any_reason_why_a_gtx_960_wouldnt_work_in_this/


maybe register your card with evga and then your a member and ask there support as well ? I just think its maybe that motherboards bios is too old ??

so it maybe a compatibility issue


did tha shop test the card on your board with the higher watt psu or did you take the card in to them and they used there stuff to test it on ??

therer were also times where a evga card would not work but a MSi card would so maybe something also have to do with the v-bios put on the card from brand to brand as well ??
 
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Thank you for also saying bios, because over at the shop he used a different mobo and it posted, now I was talking to my friend scott and he said it's probably the bios being old. So im gonna update the bios and try again. I'll close the thread if it works. Thanks again for the help!
 
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I've been doing some digging around on the internet after realizing I've previously have updated the bios to the most recent version ( I forgot. ) The problem is the actual chipset itself and just doesn't support it probably. I found a lot of trial and error stuff on this site and after seeing none of this worked, It's probably an unfixed problem with a handful of z68 mobos.

http://forums.evga.com/New-GTX-970-FTW-Works-in-4x-Slot-but-not-16x-Slot-m2246378.aspx
 
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thing to me is that was a old first release days issue with the 900 cards you would think by now that was fixed or something ?

but its also funny it been a long time since I seen something like it pop back up like for you ??


like I say to folks these 900 cards are funny and not so plug and play cards anymore

I wish I could tell you something better on all this , sorry...

the guy in the evga link I believe I also answered him here at toms as well
 
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It's totally fine man, I was trying to put it into an older pc to test it and make sure I didn't get a bad card, I'm currently making a pc right now and I just need 3 parts to it and thats it. I was just worried to death that I got a bad card. but hey man. Its all fine, you did your best with the situation, and I all I was asking what went wrong. :D
 
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