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Here are my specs:
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Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 800MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845) (SOCKET 0) 30 °C
Graphics
L204WT (1680x1050@64Hz)
Intel HD Graphics 4600 (MSI)
Storage
465GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO 500GB (SSD) 28 °C
119GB SanDisk SDSSDHP128G (SSD) 28 °C
1863GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT166 (SATA) 28 °C
1863GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA200 (SATA) 30 °C
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CZYJMF MJW5MF4 SCSI CdRom Device
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-221L
Audio
Sound Blaster Z
I had an EVGA 780TI working great. My EVGA 980 arrived so I swapped. All I got was a black screen. After taking the card out and putting it back in a few times nothing changed. Giving up I put my 780ti back in and now that just gives me a black screen too.
Any ideas?
Thanks Edit: My mobo gives the code A0 which is normal so I don't think it detected anything was wrong.
post edited by Astralogic - 2014/10/10 06:23:15
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/10 06:39:04
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Did you uninstall the old card first?
If not try booting into safe mode, then uninstalling it before inserting the new one. Hope this helps!
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/10 06:44:49
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Make sure its not taking the Intel HD Graphics 4600 as the primary video source, then, check all the power connectors on the graphics card, but i didn't understand if you're not having any video at all, not even bios or what, but i guess that probably can be the internal graphics, try connecting the monitor directly into the MB output.
PS: It's kind of overkill a 980 with that monitor / resolution configuration...
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/10 06:58:58
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Smokey the Bear
Did you uninstall the old card first?
If not try booting into safe mode, then uninstalling it before inserting the new one. Hope this helps!
No I didn't uninstall the old nvidia drivers, I just did it now (running from my onboard video). I'll retry again. Xtremed
Make sure its not taking the Intel HD Graphics 4600 as the primary video source, then, check all the power connectors on the graphics card, but i didn't understand if you're not having any video at all, not even bios or what, but i guess that probably can be the internal graphics, try connecting the monitor directly into the MB output.
PS: It's kind of overkill a 980 with that monitor / resolution configuration...
This isn't my primary monitor, just a small cheap secondary one. I disabled the HD4600 in device manager, I'll try to figure out how to that in the bios too. And no video at all, no post no nothing, but it does look like my computer is booting up as normal behind the blackness.
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/10 07:04:44
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Well you should give a try connecting only one monitor into the computer without any of the video cards, try to get into windows, download the DDU Tool http://goo.gl/5xV95B, run it on safe mode, so it clean all your previous drivers. You should also try using a different PCI EX Slot, verify your power cables, and go again for it. Give it a try...
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/10 10:49:44
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I strugged with the same issue using display port. I had to set my igpu to be primary to even get into windows, then i had to us Display Driver Uninstaller to remove all traces of the intel drivers which were causing windows to crash on boot. Then i could switch back to the discreet gpu and install Nvidia drivers. I used to use my igpu for audio to keep the extra display load off the main gpus. Now I'm having issues getting the igpu working in windows. Trying a reformat now.
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/10 13:08:21
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Sort of the same problem here :-(
Just uninstalled my two previous GTX 690s which were working perfectly and installed my two new EVGA GTX 980 SC and I get no picture, no bios, no POST no nothing :-( (and I can hear Windows starting up normally through the speakers). Tried everything I can imagine: the cards are definitely "clicking" in correctly in the PCIe-slots, the power connectors are all plugged in, the SLI-bridge is on (correctly), the monitor is connected via DVI-I (tried both cards), tried switching places and running the cards single as well. Just nothing, so pretty disappointed (and at my wits' end).
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/10 14:23:55
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Trying booting in safe mode first.
If you past this part and windows shows.
Trying removing the driver completely.
Reboot and reinstall driver then reboot again to see if it is working.
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/10 16:50:53
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use your on board, go into windows, install drivers. shut down pc, plug monitor into gtx, turn power on
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/10 17:45:42
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try switching to a different cable to the monitor
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/11 00:59:00
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I updated my bios and now everything works. Doesn't make sense really because why did my 780 stop working? Very strange but all's ok now :) To the person with the same issue what motherboard do you have? Try updating the bios and or restoring the bios defaults. Tell me what mobo you have and I'll see what I can find about its bios. Edit: Nevermind just noticed it's a Asus Rampage IV Formula x79. Edit 2: Did you change the Primary Video Controller to PCIE in the bios? Edit 3: Actually I think it must be set to GFX0-GPP-IGFX-PCI, it's a bit tricky to know exactly what bios you're using so it's one or the other.
post edited by Astralogic - 2014/10/11 01:12:57
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/11 01:34:26
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Astralogic
I updated my bios and now everything works. Doesn't make sense really because why did my 780 stop working? Very strange but all's ok now :)
To the person with the same issue what motherboard do you have? Try updating the bios and or restoring the bios defaults. Tell me what mobo you have and I'll see what I can find about its bios.
Edit: Nevermind just noticed it's a Asus Rampage IV Formula x79.
Edit 2: Did you change the Primary Video Controller to PCIE in the bios?
Edit 3: Actually I think it must be set to GFX0-GPP-IGFX-PCI, it's a bit tricky to know exactly what bios you're using so it's one or the other.
Glad you were able to solve this and post a solution as well.
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/11 02:04:19
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Astralogic
To the person with the same issue what motherboard do you have? Try updating the bios and or restoring the bios defaults. Tell me what mobo you have and I'll see what I can find about its bios.
Edit: Nevermind just noticed it's a Asus Rampage IV Formula x79.
I wouldn't say nevermind - someone in another thread with a Gigabyte mobo had to update their BIOS to get it working - might need to with the Asus, as well.
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/11 02:49:19
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To the person with the same issue what motherboard do you have? Try updating the bios and or restoring the bios defaults. Tell me what mobo you have and I'll see what I can find about its bios.
Edit: Nevermind just noticed it's a Asus Rampage IV Formula x79.
I wouldn't say nevermind - someone in another thread with a Gigabyte mobo had to update their BIOS to get it working - might need to with the Asus, as well.
I meant nevermind about telling me his mobo cos I noticed he already said what it was.
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/11 05:53:05
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Sad story so far :-(
Tried with a displayport-cable between gpu and monitor, same problem, no signal.
Then I tried updating my BIOS and that went super-bad. I used the Asus bios flash utility which means that you can flash the bios without the screen just by plugging in a USB-drive with the BIOS-version on it and letting it update in standby. So, got the latest version and it seemed to update without problems but as I tried to turn the computer on it powered up for just a second and the down and then up again, and so on until I pulled the chord. So then I used the BIOS switch button to switch to secondary bios (original) and then I'm back at square 1, I can hear windows starting normally through the speakers but get no signal to the monitor.
Then I read that Asus wants you to convert your Bios from ROM to CAP to install the latest and so I downloaded the conversion utility and tried it with the bios flash again but same result :-( . Don't really know what to do next.
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/12 01:35:57
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Sad story so far :-(
Tried with a displayport-cable between gpu and monitor, same problem, no signal.
Then I tried updating my BIOS and that went super-bad. I used the Asus bios flash utility which means that you can flash the bios without the screen just by plugging in a USB-drive with the BIOS-version on it and letting it update in standby. So, got the latest version and it seemed to update without problems but as I tried to turn the computer on it powered up for just a second and the down and then up again, and so on until I pulled the chord. So then I used the BIOS switch button to switch to secondary bios (original) and then I'm back at square 1, I can hear windows starting normally through the speakers but get no signal to the monitor.
Then I read that Asus wants you to convert your Bios from ROM to CAP to install the latest and so I downloaded the conversion utility and tried it with the bios flash again but same result :-( . Don't really know what to do next.
What is your "Primary Video Controller" set to in your bios?
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/12 04:15:12
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Astralogic
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Sad story so far :-(
Tried with a displayport-cable between gpu and monitor, same problem, no signal.
Then I tried updating my BIOS and that went super-bad. I used the Asus bios flash utility which means that you can flash the bios without the screen just by plugging in a USB-drive with the BIOS-version on it and letting it update in standby. So, got the latest version and it seemed to update without problems but as I tried to turn the computer on it powered up for just a second and the down and then up again, and so on until I pulled the chord. So then I used the BIOS switch button to switch to secondary bios (original) and then I'm back at square 1, I can hear windows starting normally through the speakers but get no signal to the monitor.
Then I read that Asus wants you to convert your Bios from ROM to CAP to install the latest and so I downloaded the conversion utility and tried it with the bios flash again but same result :-( . Don't really know what to do next.
What is your "Primary Video Controller" set to in your bios?
Don't have that option in my bios, the X79 platform only supports external graphics card and it's currently working fine with an old GTX275 I found. Going to try to update bios now.
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/12 05:01:59
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Well this thread is worrying me.
Hopefully I don't run into any issues when I get a 980.
Where did you find it OP? I've been refreshing newegg every few hours and still nothing.
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/12 11:12:27
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And is solved!! Definitely a BIOS issue but tricky to work anyways, first had to convert my old BIOS from ROM to CAP structure and then apply the latest BIOS version and worked like a charm 
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Re: Just bought a 980, now all I get is a black screen no matter what GPU I use.
2014/10/12 11:15:15
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Glad you got it fixed. 
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