geforce gtx 580 not recognised by motherboard

[Kaz Zak]

I have a new Asus P8Z77-V LX motherboard, now when i put my GTX580 in it does not recognise the card?? The onboard VGA works fine??

ANy ideas what i need to do to sort this out?

P.S. please use simple terms as i don't regard myself as a techie

Thanks
Kaz

 

[Kindredsouls]

Make sure you have the two 6 pin cables plugged into the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), in addition to have it inserted in the PCIe slot.

Most likely the motherboard is looking for the graphics chip built into your CPU (Central Processing Unit). If you're running an Intel Ivy Bridge CPU I'd bet that is the case. Look in your BIOS settings to shut it off. It may be listed as the CPU onboard graphics or onboard CPU graphics. The manual that came with the motherboard may have a section on how to do that, otherwise you'll have to download a PDF manual from Asus's website.

I hope that helps and I wish you luck!

 

[bignastyid]

The GTX 580 requires both the 8-pin and 6-pin power cables to be plugged in also make sure the monitor is plugged into the gtx 580 and not the onboard. Whats the make and model of the power supply?

 

[Kaz Zak]

Thanks for the responses Kindredsouls and bignastyid

I'm uploading some files at the moment, so can't do much just yet. But from what you both said it might be that i only have the 8 ping plugged in at the moment, so will try plugging the 6 pin too.

the PSU is a Powercool X-Viper 850w.

will update after i try the above

 

[smorizio]

with asus motherboards on the first page of the bios screen is the bios rev of the mb. make sure your mb has the newest bios on it to have all of the bios patches. in the asus bios by default the ipgpu is set as primany video output. change that to peg/pci and under it turn on muilt monitor support. it then have both video chipsets turned on. when you get the gpu chipset working right go in and turn off the onboard chipset if you want.

 

[Kaz Zak]

Thanks guy's

It working now

Connecting the 2nd pin power lead and disabling the onboard iGPU has worked!

 

[Kindredsouls]

Awesome!