my set up won't boot with my gtx 1070 installed!!!

[OriginalUser117]

Recently i bought a samsung 750 evo 250gb, a corsair vs 550 watts power supply and the gigabyte windforce g1 gaming gtx 1070.
Once I tried installing them in my setup[ (it is kinda old so you have been warned!!) which is rocking the following: motherboard: ga-h61ma-d3v (ver 2.1) cpu: i3 3225 @ 3.30GHz RAM: 4gb of Crucial Ballistix] the boot beep thing would go off but the pc would not go pass the motherboars options screen, after rebooting the system a couple of times I uninstalled the grapphics card and run the system with the on board grapphics, which made my pc to boot into the windows 8.1 i had pre-installed in the ssd.Using an old gppu did not help at all.I installed a nvidia Geforce 8600 gt and it stuck at the windows logo.After rebooting a couplpe of times i gave up because my resources are low and i can not try anything else at the moment.

If you have any idea what could be possibly go wrong plpease let me know. Thank you for your time!!

 

[Gonio]

Maybe the pre install mess stuff up. Can you just do a clean install, possibly without the 1070 at first and then add it later?

 

You sure that all old driver stuff is removed or did you run onboard before?

[doomsriker]

1. Go into windows and write down the activation key for your copy.

2. Make a bootable usb with windows 8.1 ( make sure it is the same version ie: home, pro, exetera)

3. Slot back in the 1070

4. Plug in the usb stick with windows on it.

5. Power on the pc while holding C on the keyboard

6. When it says "push any key to boot from usb" hit a key

7. Install windows, and when prompted put in your activation key. 

8. Download the newest driver for the 1070

 

That should work. 

 

[belfouf]

15 hours ago, doomsriker said:

1. Go into windows and write down the activation key for your copy.

2. Make a bootable usb with windows 8.1 ( make sure it is the same version ie: home, pro, exetera)

3. Slot back in the 1070

4. Plug in the usb stick with windows on it.

5. Power on the pc while holding C on the keyboard

6. When it says "push any key to boot from usb" hit a key

7. Install windows, and when prompted put in your activation key. 

8. Download the newest driver for the 1070

 

That should work. 

 

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I installed a nvidia Geforce 8600 gt and it stuck at the windows logo.After rebooting a couplpe of times i gave up

 

i3 3225 has integrated graphics, try to boot without GPU and without SSD. Just the CPU + OS hard drive

 

[raphidy]

17 hours ago, OriginalUser117 said:

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Boot into bios, disable integrated graphics enable primary graphic through pcie. Reboot. I think you need to tell the mobo that the main gpu is in the pcie.

[WkdPaul]

18 hours ago, OriginalUser117 said:

after rebooting the system a couple of times I uninstalled the grapphics card and run the system with the on board grapphics, which made my pc to boot into the windows 8.1 i had pre-installed in the ssd.Using an old gppu did not help at all.I installed a nvidia Geforce 8600 gt and it stuck at the windows logo.

So basically, any dGPU will make the system unstable?

 

Did you try a different PCIE slot??? Forget that, just saw your motherboard only has one PCIE 16x

Can you try a different PSU??

 

Also, that Corsair VS is crap, you should've bought something else, for future reference be sure to look at this;

 

[OriginalUser117]

Thank you all for your help!

But all i needed was a bios update (i tried a couple of your suggestions till gigabyte replied to my ticket and told me to update the bios)

All in all the system is up and running 

(sorry for not respponding i just started college so i don't have much time in my hands  )

[WkdPaul]

3 hours ago, OriginalUser117 said:

Thank you all for your help!

But all i needed was a bios update (i tried a couple of your suggestions till gigabyte replied to my ticket and told me to update the bios)

All in all the system is up and running 

(sorry for not respponding i just started college so i don't have much time in my hands  )

Glad to hear that you were able to fix it. Keep in mind that your next upgrade should be the PSU, there's more to a PSU than the wattage!

 

[Gonio]

Good to hear mon, pls mark this thread solved by choosing best answer from yourself