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Old March 25, 2013, 08:06 AM
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Hi everyone,

Having an issue I haven't had before, and thanks in advance for any input; here it is:
I am upgrading my old video card a Geforce GTX 285 to a Asus HD 7770. When the new card is installed the monitors do receive a signal but they will not boot to bios. Connections are good and I have tried reseating the card half a dozen times; also no visible damage. The green light appears on the video card indicating power.

My question is will will the card boot to bios with no driver installed? I have yet to install the catalyst drivers and at the moment the nvidia ones are still installed. The motherboard is a gigabyte ep35 ds3r. I would think that I should be able to get to bios, but am not sure about onboard video or potential conflicts. Before I RMA the card thought it would be best to confirm this.

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Old March 25, 2013, 08:09 AM
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Yes it should be able to get into bios without any drivers installed. That's a hardware/firmware function as opposed to drivers which are an OS function.

Did you do a cmos reset?
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Did you do a cmos reset?
Nope.
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Nope.
Heh... you should try one then.... that should clear any possible resource conflicts.
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Heh... you should try one then.... that should clear any possible resource conflicts.
Will do. Thanks for your help.
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