New Geforce GTX 970 Installed = No Signal to Monitor

[Mulatto_Rance]

Greetings friends,

I recently ordered a new Zotac Geforce Gtx 970 from Amazon. I removed my old graphics card (a GTX 470), installed the new one, and booted it up. The computer seemed to be running just fine, as all the fans were operational and I heard the usual boot-up sounds. However, my monitor just switched back and forth between 'digital' and 'analog' several times, before shutting off. I was even able to type in my password and hear myself 'log in', but the monitor wouldn't turn on. (I was using the DVI connector).

I took out the new card, re-inserted the old card, and everything worked like a charm. But upon switching to the new card again and confirming that everything was properly attached/snapped in, same problem. I even tried bringing my TV monitor over and attaching by HDMI (as my computer monitor has no HDMI output), but no such luck there either.

I'm hoping to bring the card over to a friend's house tomorrow to see whether or not it works in his computer.

I browsed some other threads and saw recommendations about disabling old graphics drivers and also messing around with settings in the BIOS menu, but I'm not sure how any of that would help me if I can't even get the monitor to ever turn on in the first place. Also, I'm a pretty big noob when it comes to this stuff - I'm not even sure how to access the BIOS menu.

Also, my PSU is a Corsair 900W, so it shouldn't be a power issue. My motherboard is a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3, and my processor is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @3.40GHz

Thank you in advance!!

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

ok, in that case rma the card imo.

 

[junkeymonkey]

???? why ??? he said the card works fine on his buddies rig ???

there so many if these issues with 970 cards he may rma for another brand of card like evga or msi and see ??

thing is why does it work for his buddy and not for hin and he's replaced his board ?? with out a psu change to test that, where you at with it ??

that's about all that's left I would think ???

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Ok wait, so he's changed boards, card tests fine in another board, but will not work in any of his boards? Ok, that is strange.

Just a dumb question, when you got a new board, did you get the same type of board as before? Maybe there is an incompatibility with that card and that board? Any bios updates available for your board?

Would not hurt to try a different power supply just to see. Even if you buy one and take it back. I mean surely that is not the issue but if the card is known working, and the board works with another card, seems like the constant remaining is the PSU. So I'd try that I guess and then look into bios updates for your board. If you bought the same board as last time, maybe swap it with a different brand. Or swap the card?

 

[zver333]

Try disabling the onboard video (HD3000) and RAM profile to standard 1333 from XMP in the BIOS.