not progressing past boot splash screen

[Hadeed]

psu - Antec tp3-650 (650watt)
cpu - Intel i7 3770
mb - Asus p8z77-m (latest bios - 2003)
ram - gSkill 4x8GB DDR3
vid - eVGA GTX770 2G
hdd - Intel 520s 240gb, 1x 500GB, 2x 2TB
DVD-RW

My system has been running fine on recently until my old videocard (GTX470) died. I

upgraded the vid card to a GTX770 today. I turned on the system and I installed the

latest geforce drivers, which went without a hitch.

Issue seems to now be that after I initially turned on the PC with the new card, I got it

to reboot after everything, and now it won't go past the Asus logo/splash screen. It

boots and makes a single beep, but it appears to hang at the splash screen - not even

giving me the inkling that it notices me trying to get into bios.

I have updated the bios via USB (asus has a way to flash the bios without booting), but

that hasn't done anything.

I am assuming that this issue stems from my power supply, but I find it strange that it

booted and loaded windows with no issues on the first go.

Any help?

 

[swifty_morgan]

disconnect all HD's except for the drive with the operating system. boot. what happens?.............. and did you check all connections after installing the card? it doesn't take much to dislodge ( slightly ) a sata cable.

 

[Hadeed]

disconnect all HD's except for the drive with the operating system. boot. what happens?.............. and did you check all connections after installing the card? it doesn't take much to dislodge ( slightly ) a sata cable.

yeah, I literally thought of more troubleshooting ideas after I posted this. I removed all power to the drives, but I had the same result 🙁

I have also removed the video card and plugged the monitor into the onboard DVI output. the pc boots properly now and allows me access to bios.

I will now try the video card again to see if i can achieve a different result.

Thoughts on what could be the stem of the issue? not enough watts? mobo <-> vid card compatibility issue?

 

[Hadeed]

nup, the pc does the same thing when I place the video card in 🙁

 

[swifty_morgan]

the power supply was a second guess. thought the cables might be a problem......... easy stuff first. do you have another PS to try? it's less of a supply than I would use but the amperage is there to run your stuff anyways.

i would disconnect everything ( data cables too on odd drives ) and retry. run with 1 stick of ram. it's not running through the boot process. also check that floppy is disabled and disabled in boot sequence.

 

[Hadeed]

the power supply was a second guess. thought the cables might be a problem......... easy stuff first. do you have another PS to try? it's less of a supply than I would use but the amperage is there to run your stuff anyways.

i would disconnect everything ( data cables too on odd drives ) and retry. run with 1 stick of ram. it's not running through the boot process. also check that floppy is disabled and disabled in boot sequence.

I unfortunately do not have another power supply to try 🙁

I have tried it with one ram stick, all sata cables disconnected and disabled floppy - still getting the hang.

This is getting quite depressing

 

[dreamerz]

Have you tried uninstalling/clearing the old drivers then reinstalling new drivers (when the card is out of the system)? or use the previous release drivers for that card instead of the latest ones.

 

[Hadeed]

Have you tried uninstalling/clearing the old drivers then reinstalling new drivers (when the card is out of the system)? or use the previous release drivers for that card instead of the latest ones.

I'll give that a shot, but I highly doubt that this is an issue. The issue stems from something going on during the boot up. The drivers installed on the hard drive (which has been unplugged) never get a chance to do anything during that moment of the boot.

P.S
thanks to everyone who has been so helpful so far!

 

[swifty_morgan]

for an attempt to boot............... do you have a bare drive anywhere? if so, disconnect all drives and hook that one up.......... maybe even an old one with another operating system on it............ just want to see how far the machine will boot.

 

[Hadeed]

for an attempt to boot............... do you have a bare drive anywhere? if so, disconnect all drives and hook that one up.......... maybe even an old one with another operating system on it............ just want to see how far the machine will boot.

I just went back to using the onboard graphics card, changed the settings to hide the splash screen to only show the POST sequence stuff. now that I have done that, it shows nothing but a blank screen. The monitor registers that a signal is being sent to it, but the computer doesn't appear to want to show anything during the POST. This is in contrast to the onboard graphics card showing everything as normal.

I am thinking the card is buggered or a power supply issue (though I doubt that with the bare components testing that I've done), but I am very surprised it is acting like this after the initial attempt having no issue what so ever.

so strange...

 

[swifty_morgan]

you reset cmos?


wonder if ( at your usual stock settings/hardware ) if it would boot with ubuntu or aspire?

power was an option but have you tried swapping sata cables and/or sata ports?............ bad mobo's don't help anything either.

 

[dreamerz]

can you test the card in another pc? a friends?

 

[Hadeed]

I have cleared (and updated) the CMOS/BIOS.

Unfortunately I do not have another computer, and my friend is too paranoid to let me try it in his computer. I might just take my entire computer into the shop where I got the hardware from (I got the majority of the rest of the hardware from the same store 6 months ago). I can see if they can help resolve this issue.

If anyone has any ideas, I'm still willing to give them a shot.

 

[Hadeed]

after several hours of trying, I was about to give up when it spontaneously worked.

I literally just plugged and unplugged the same stuff over and over again. I guess the manufacturer forgot to mention that you need to reinstall the card several times before it will become submissive.

 

[dreamerz]

Great! Maybe just a loose connection or something.

 

[swifty_morgan]

forget to read my first post?

 

[dreamerz]

No I did I had a similar problem with an older pc for whatever reason the hdd would get disconnected I'd have to reseat the connections over and over until it finally stuck. changed plugs, ports cables, whatever. the pc never moved when in use, but for whatever reason the cables would get loose enough that the MB wouldn't detect it and I'd have to go in and reseat the cables.

 

[swifty_morgan]

No I did I had a similar problem with an older pc for whatever reason the hdd would get disconnected I'd have to reseat the connections over and over until it finally stuck. changed plugs, ports cables, whatever. the pc never moved when in use, but for whatever reason the cables would get loose enough that the MB wouldn't detect it and I'd have to go in and reseat the cables.

that was for hadeed.

 

[dreamerz]

ah sorry.