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[Frankenst3in]

So last weekend, as I was playing, I all of the sudden got intermingled black/grey lines covering the whole screen. Praying it was just a driver failure, I rebooted, only to see graphical corruption on all the boot screens, and windows not fully loading/loading to a solid blue screen (not a BSOD screen). Digging further, I was able to get into the Bios, but it still had graphical corruption. So I assumed my GPU had died, and ordered a new one, which came today. With the new one in, I just get no signal, and am fairly sure my PC is not even booting properly. (Capslock/numlock have no effect on the keyboard lights) Will most likely have access to another PC tomorrow to verify if the new card is viable, but diagnostics is not really my strong suit, and I thought I would throw my symptoms out here to see if any body had any ideas. Did I misjudge, and these are actually CPU/motherboard symptoms? Any help any one could offer is appreciated.

[Goose]

BIOS Splash Page has corruption = shot card

For the new situation: You have the new card in the right slot? With all the power patches filled? Any fans come on?

If you pull out all the memory, does it beep at you, like is should?

Tell me you've followed proper static electricity countermeasures, what with all this touching of the mobo?

[Dirge Crenna]

Listing comp specs would also help ie: psu, cpu, mobo, etc.

And what Goose mentioned above....

[Frankenst3in]

Goose, on 09 July 2015 - 07:48 PM, said:

BIOS Splash Page has corruption = shot card

For the new situation: You have the new card in the right slot? With all the power patches filled? Any fans come on?

If you pull out all the memory, does it beep at you, like is should?

Tell me you've followed proper static electricity countermeasures, what with all this touching of the mobo?

Yup, verified all power connections, even went as far as trying with an extra psu i had laying around, still no joy. strange thing is, after feeling a bit crazy, i put the old gpu back in, and lo and behold, i could actually boot back into my bios. still corrupted, still won't actually load windows, but it would boot. so i put the new card back in, and no boot, no post, nothing. (all fans spinning though) leaning towards a bunk new card at this point, but i wanted to double check my bases. will hopefully be able to try the new card in a different pc tomorrow, but to verify, the original symptoms sound like gpu to you, yes?

[Lordred]

Sounds more like a hardware conflict.

New GPU may not jive with the mobo

[Dirge Crenna]

As I mentioned before, computer specs would help as well.

[Frankenst3in]

Shouldn't be a compatibility issue as far as I'm aware,
i5 2500k
msi p67-a g43 mobo
8Gb generic 1333mhz ram bios test says still good
old GPU amd hd7850
new GPU amd r9 380
tested first on a corsair 750 watt single rail psu, then on a rosewill 500 watt(just to double check it wasn't my psu being screwy)

[Lordred]

Remove one stick of memory.

Humor me

Edit: Also which bios are you on?

Edited by Lordred, 09 July 2015 - 08:36 PM.

[Frankenst3in]

Lordred, on 09 July 2015 - 08:31 PM, said:

Remove one stick of memory.

Humor me

Edit: Also which bios are you on?

just tried it, removed one stick, no change, put it back and took out the second stick, still no change. unsure of bios version, have to put the old card back in to find out =P.

[Dirge Crenna]

Just for reference, the newest BIOS version for your mobo is 5.4 from 1/9/13 according to MSI ...

Also, what Catalyst driver are you using?

Windows version?

[Oderint dum Metuant]

1) Do the new GPU fans spin?

2) Take new card out see if you can boot of the IGPU on the 2500K

3) Reset the CMOS battery.

4) Beep? Beep beep? Or Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep?

[Frankenst3in]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction fellas, it was the MB bios >.< which was a ******* ***** to reflash for some reason, but I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!! never needed to reflash a bios just to put in a new gpu before, lol. but anyways thanks again!

[VorpalAnvil]

Interesting, didn't know you would have to flash BIOS for a new GPU. That IS a new one.

[Dirge Crenna]

Good to hear Kiboelt.

Yup, sometimes it is a necessary evil to have to flash an updated BIOS on an older mobo just to use new/newer hardware. Been there, done that and hated it !!

Edited by Dirge Crenna, 10 July 2015 - 01:11 AM.

[Lord Letto]

glad you got it worked out.
all I have to say now is, K Chip on a non Z Board *shakes head*

[Flapdrol]

Lord Letto, on 10 July 2015 - 06:55 AM, said:

glad you got it worked out.
all I have to say now is, K Chip on a non Z Board *shakes head*

P67 overclocks too, Z chipset came half a year after sandy bridge launched.

[Lord Letto]

Flapdrol, on 10 July 2015 - 09:29 AM, said:

P67 overclocks too, Z chipset came half a year after sandy bridge launched.

Really? Didn't Know that, Thanks for the Lesson.

[Napoleon_Blownapart]

glad you fixed your problem, just a bit of info GPUs have their own bios.you can update gpu bios if there is a later version though its not always necessary.

http://www.tomshardw...e-gpu-bios.html

Edited by Gorantir, 15 July 2015 - 09:28 AM.