New GPU installation Issue

[CGurrell]

Hey Guys,

 

So a friend of mine, Rob, has bought himself a new ASUS Strix GTX 1060 to replace is ageing GTX 660, but he's having problems during install. The system will either not load at all (NO SIGNAL on monitor), or will load the Motherboard splash screen but stay frozen on that, won't go further. Once or twice we've gotten into the BIOS and loaded optimised defaults, and checked the correct drive is being selected for boot, but to no avail.

 

Has anyone got any ideas as to how to fix this? I will put a list below of what has been tried so far.

 

Thanks,

 

CGurrell

 

Things we've tried:

Booting with onboard graphics, running DDU to remove old nvidia drivers, reinstalling new GPU and rebooting, no luck.

Clearing CMOS

Power drained the PC (Turned it off, switched off PSU, unplugged PSU, held power button down)

Turning it off and on again (of course)
Loading optimised defaults

Loading drivers from the Driver CD

Trying different PCI-E Power plugs

[EPPHO]

What is the PSU?

[CGurrell]

BeQuiet 630W unit I think, not a no-name one that's for sure

[JSFetzik]

Make sure the motherboard supports the PCI-E version that the new video card uses. A friend saw something similar and it turned out his motherboard was too old to support the new PCI-E version of the video card.

[CGurrell]

1 minute ago, JSFetzik said:

Make sure the motherboard supports the PCI-E version that the new video card uses. A friend saw something similar and it turned out his motherboard was too old to support the new PCI-E version of the video card.

As far as I'm aware, PCI-E versions are forwards and backwards compatible? Like gen 2 to gen 3? They're Gen 3 lanes anyhow, it's a Z77 board from Gigabyte

[CGurrell]

Problem solved... next time I will exercise my GoogleFu before asking on forums

For those interested or with a similar problem, there's a setting in the BIOS on Gigabyte boards that sometimes needs to be changed called something along the lines of "PCI Device Rom Priority". Set that to Legacy and try again, worked for us