Motherboard splash screen hanging after GPU change

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Jackson 97

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Hi
I'm new to forum posting so please bare with me

I recently upgraded my GPU from a sapphire radeon 7950 to a MSI gtx 970. After booting back up I noticed that the motherboard splash screen hanged for an abnormally long time. Once this passed everything loaded normally the windows logo and then finally my desktop.
Every time I boot the PC weather it's from cold or a restart the Mobo screen still hangs.
This problem only started after the GPU change and usually boot takes 10 or so seconds as it boots from an SSD.
The PC has been built my myself including upgrades.

Specs
Intel i5 3570k
Gigabyte Z77X-D3H
MSI gtx 970
former sapphire radeon 970
Corsair CX750M PSU
Boots from a Samsung 750 Evo 120gb SSD
 
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Jackson 97

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Yes i have uninstalled the drivers from the AMD GPU before, and to make sure i have retryed this again after your message but the same thing still happens. If i remove the GPU and boot using the motherboard graphics the problem doesn't occur i know that
 
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Paul NZ

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Disable the logo in the BIOS. So you can see what it's doing. Sometimes if it hangs on the post screen this is a sign its finding it hard to read the hdd or something thats connected.

If its a hdd it can be a sign that it's failing. I would also check and make sure the hdd is the bootdisk in the BIOS. if it's on something else, it can take longer to boot into windows
 
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Jackson 97

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Ive disconnected the GPU, as i have found it impossible to get into the BIOS when it hangs on the splash screen even though i spam the delete key all the way through until the windows logo pops up. Without the G PU i can get into the BIOS
The system boots entirely from the SSD which is first in the boot sequence,and it is about 6 months old so mechanically it shouldn't be the problem and no files/drivers are on the hard drive so it shouldn't be interfering
 
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compprob237

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As is apparent by the contents of the opening post the issue is that the system was not even making it past BIOS. The OS never even got a chance to load drivers in the first place.

Yes, some motherboards had to be patched to work properly with newer video cards. If my memory serves me correctly it actually was related to Nvidia's 900 series so the update was probably the fix.

Well, I'm glad you figured it out and posted what the fix was. You may have actually given me a hint as to the issue for another person I was helping.
 
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