New motherboard MSI Z170A bios won't boot (endless spinner)

davidwparker

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New motherboard MSI Z170A won't boot past bios spinner screen.

It worked before (I had installed Windows 10) with a single GPU.

I powered down, then plugged in 3x more GPUs and tried to boot it up. It didn't do anything, so I powered down, removed the 3x extra GPUs and now it just sits on the "pro series" MSI screen with a spinner that doesn't do anything. I can't click DEL or F11 to enter the bios.

Suggestions?

Notes:

If I take out the graphics cards altogether, and plug the monitor straight into the motherboard instead, it will boot ok into Windows.

The graphics card appears to be getting power ok.
 
Solution
This link, provided to me on the MSI boards had the answer on 3.1 (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Z98LONNR0hTGM0Y0ViR0VXS2c/view). Basically, I needed to change the output back to IGD.

davidwparker

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Thanks for the response. I have reset the BIOS. Unfortunately, when I plug in the graphics card, I still get the spinner.

It starts up, goes to the spinner screen, goes black (the fans on the GPU turn off) then it goes back to the bios screen and gives me the spinner.
 

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* motherboard: MSI Pro Solution Intel Z170A LGA 1151 DDR4 USB 3.1 ATX Motherboard (Z170A SLI Plus)
* graphics cards: 4x 2 of MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 SLI DirectX 12 VR Ready Graphics Card (GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G)
* power supply: Corsair RMx Series, RM1000x, 1000W, Fully Modular Power Supply, 80+ Gold Certified
* cpu: Intel BX80662G4400 Pentium Processor G4400 3.3 GHz FCLGA1151 * ram: Ballistix Sport LT 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) DIMM 288-Pin - BLS2K4G4D240FSE (Red)
* ssd: SanDisk SSD PLUS 240GB Solid State Drive (SDSSDA-240G-G26) [Newest Version]

4 GPUs are for mining
 

davidwparker

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This link, provided to me on the MSI boards had the answer on 3.1 (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Z98LONNR0hTGM0Y0ViR0VXS2c/view). Basically, I needed to change the output back to IGD.
 
Solution