GTX 1070 not working in desktop computer. (Slow boot, driver issues)

Myuun

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Core i7-3820 @ 3.8 GHz, 16GB G.Skill DDR4, 120GB SSD, NVIDIA GTX 1070 8GB Founders Edition (previously an AMD R9 290X), Windows 10, Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3

Just bought an EVGA GTX 1070 Founders Edition. Uninstalled the AMD drivers from my machine, turned it off put the NVIDIA card in and booted it up, it boots incredibly slowly, hangs at the BIOS splash for a good minute, cuts out, comes back and finally loads in to Windows 10 only to tell me that the GPU is having driver issues.

This happens every time I restart when asked to, tried to Safe Boot and remove drivers, I've tried to put the old card in, which works perfectly fine and boots quickly, go to safe mode again and remove the drivers using the Guru3D tool. I've also tried keeping the computer off the internet in safe-mode and normal mode, but it just always boots very slow unless its my old AMD card in the system.

I don't <mod edit> get it? Why is Windows 10 being such an <mod edit> to my NVIDIA card.

<Watch your language in these forums>
 

maxalge

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is you motherboard bios up to date?
 

Myuun

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Update: The bios did in fact fix the problem. Care to explain how that's even... relevant? Is it to do with the way newer cards handle PCI-E or something? This one stumped me for ages..
 

maxalge

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the bios was made by men


men make mistakes while programming the instructions for the hardware to follow

men need to make updates to fix those mistakes


XD
 

mindminer

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I'm experiencing the same problem. Did you do the BIOS update with the new card in or did you put your old card in for the update and then switch? Thanks.