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Started by trey11230 | | 3 answers
GTX 770 freezes on BIOS splash screen.
I recently purchased a EVGA GTX 770 to replace my 2 GTX 560's. When I installed it my computer locks on the BIOS splash screen. I looked around and saw that others where having this same problem and it was suggested to update their BIOS. My BIOS was already completely up to date however.

My current setup is:

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor, Black Edition @ 3.2Ghz
ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe/HDMI
8GB DDR2
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W
and the 2 x 560 of course.

I realize that my motherboard is old and needs to be replaced I was just hoping to wait till Christmas to do it honestly. The computer does POST and I've tried clearing my CMOS. Any help is appreciated.
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September 21, 2014 5:08:09 AM

Try resetting your bios to default
September 17, 2014 6:33:23 PM

photonboy said:
Contact EVGA and Asus tech support.

Your system was working fine, and you obviously have sufficient power so this only leaves:

1) Defective GTX770, or
2) Incompatibility (VBIOS) with GTX770

Either way, you need to contact EVGA but my gut feeling is it just won't work with this motherboard for some reason.



This is what I'm afraid of. I'll call them in the morning.

Edit: Weird double post.

September 17, 2014 6:21:08 PM

Contact EVGA and Asus tech support.

Your system was working fine, and you obviously have sufficient power so this only leaves:

1) Defective GTX770, or
2) Incompatibility (VBIOS) with GTX770

Either way, you need to contact EVGA but my gut feeling is it just won't work with this motherboard for some reason.

Update:
I recommend building a new system with an i5-4xxx CPU and a suitable Z97 motherboard (board with good customer feedback). For the CPU I recommend either the i5-4460 ($180) or the i5-4690K ($230) depending on your budget.

The i5-4460 is not overclockable so you don't need quite as expensive of a motherboard as well so you could easily save $80 between the CPU and motherboard. The drawback is that you obviously don't have quite as much processing power, but currently most games wouldn't benefit too much from a better CPU, and in the future it's looking like games will use a modern CPU much more efficiently. Games using DX12, or even well optimized DX11 games.

I'd also recommend Windows 8.1 64-bit but get Start8 to help with the interface.

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