Graphics card interfering with motherboard? Nothing shows on monitors except when its taken out

[anime_lover713]

So I recently moved, and I start setting up my computer (Windows 10) as usual, and I have a dual monitor set up. I have a mother board (MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING) and the graphics card (Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti) hooked. When I turned on my computer, I wasn't getting any visual feed on my monitors, even tried a tv.

My buddy and I were troubleshooting this, and we took out the graphics and it worked! Saw my set up on a monitor, and we had to redo the BIOS. When we put back the graphics, the issue came back again of nothing showing, we tried deleting the drivers, but when I went to go re-install them I couldn't because it can't find any compatible graphics equipment (which reverts back to the problem if I do put the card back in.) We tried clearing the motherboard CMOS and still nothing.

Why is it doing this? I haven't had an issue like this! However it's been 3 weeks since I last turned on my computer due to the move. HELP!!

 

[jay_red]

What he said ^^^

 

[anime_lover713]

Huh...well I did change the CPU to an i7, and that gave me no problems except that was I believe 2 months ago.

Well when I get home I'll check and see with the BIOS.

 

[anime_lover713]

doing a bit of searching, it would seem there are more than a few cases of no video from this specific motherboard. I found this post with some info on the bios settings to check:

"In the BIOS under Settings\Advanced\Integrated Graphics Configuration, make sure Virtu Technology is Disabled, Initiate Graphics Adapter is PEG and IGD Multi-Monitor is Disabled. This will disable the CPU's internal graphics altogether. If you want to be able to use the CPU internal graphics along with your installed video card at the same time, you would need to set Virtu to Enabled, Initiate to IGD and IGD Multi to enabled and then install the Virtu driver software under Windows on you computer."

Woah woah hold on, the CPU is involved in this? I thought the motherboard had its own graphics card integrated with it, not on the cpu.

for quite sometime now, all intel CPUs have their iGPUs on the CPU not the motherboard

Haha my emails are lacking on keeping me updated with the lovely replies from you guys. ♡

I posted my reply to this in a separate thing Haha. Yeah I'll see more about the BIOS although a friend of mine in which we were troubleshooting this before I made this post is unsure if it's the BIOS but he's not sure.

 

[anime_lover713]

WAIT! THIS THING IS NOT SOLVED!! I REPEAT! IT IS NOT SOLVED! I ACCIDENTALLY PRESSED THE WRONG BUTTON ON MY PHONE

 

[anime_lover713]

Initially the settings to Jay's post was already that in the very beginning, the Virtu was disabled? Initiate was Peg and IDG multi is disabled and still got a no go.

However to use both if I initiate virtu I either have to set it to d-mode or i-mode. Which would it be?

 

[anime_lover713]

doing a bit of searching, it would seem there are more than a few cases of no video from this specific motherboard. I found this post with some info on the bios settings to check:

"In the BIOS under Settings\Advanced\Integrated Graphics Configuration, make sure Virtu Technology is Disabled, Initiate Graphics Adapter is PEG and IGD Multi-Monitor is Disabled. This will disable the CPU's internal graphics altogether. If you want to be able to use the CPU internal graphics along with your installed video card at the same time, you would need to set Virtu to Enabled, Initiate to IGD and IGD Multi to enabled and then install the Virtu driver software under Windows on you computer."

Alright, I have NO Idea what happened, but I did what you said to where I enabled Virtu and set it to D mode, Graphics Adapter is PEG, and IGD multi monitor is enabled, then I went to go install the virtu drivers only for it to tell me No, can't do it cuz some Vendor driver isn't installed among something else. Then while calling a friend and troubleshooting did I went to go to Nvidia and download the drivers for my new graphics card, but then it told me it can't find any compatible graphics card (of course not, cuz it's not even in and I couldn't anyway)

So just when we were talking and troubleshooting, I saw my monitor blink and then moments later, BOTH MONITORS SHOWED DISPLAY! I decided earlier to plug both monitor cables into the motherboard rather than one on the MB and the other on the GPU card to see if I can get hopefully get this issue fixed (at the start of the issue, both monitors didn't show anything when I turned on my pc). Then I saw a sign saying "Updating Device" and the message saying "please wait while we update and install your device" or something among those lines. I restarted to see if this was a fluke, no fluke, still worked.

THEN I plugged in the new GPU I bought, and just when I thought that it was same issue, no feed on both monitors, both monitors started showing feed! Hurray! But can someone tell me what the hell just happened?? What worked??

Now I just need to figure out WHY the driver installer for my card that I downloaded from Nvidia's website does it still say it can't find any compatible graphics hardware even though the new GPU is inside plugged and running?

 

[notea]

windows 10 build 1511 or newer is required for the new drivers to work, and i heard some ppl can force install the driver, idk how they do it tho

 

[anime_lover713]

windows 10 build 1511 or newer is required for the new drivers to work, and i heard some ppl can force install the driver, idk how they do it tho

Ah, but I never had anything like this come across me.

 

[notea]

windows 10 build 1511 or newer is required for the new drivers to work, and i heard some ppl can force install the driver, idk how they do it tho

Ah, but I never had anything like this come across me.

Update your windows 10 and it should work after that

 

[notea]

WAIT! THIS THING IS NOT SOLVED!! I REPEAT! IT IS NOT SOLVED! I ACCIDENTALLY PRESSED THE WRONG BUTTON ON MY PHONE

I have un-selected the solution so that its not shown in the forums as "solved" , you can select it again after your issue is resolved