P8z77 v Lk and GTX 550 ti

[LarryBailey]

Ok, I bought a GTX 550 ti and put it in my Asus P5b Deluxe. It worked but it had a slight problem. When you first turn the computer on it wouldn't post. Then after about 15 -20 sec it would reboot and then it would post correctly. It acted like it wasn't finding the video card. So i got tired of that after a few months and put in an old card that worked perfect. I did some research and figured the pcie x 2.0 card wasn't compatible with the 1.0 slot.
So now i upgraded my motherboard to ASUS P8z77 v LK and thought i would finally get to use the 550 ti. Nope. The motherboard does boot the card. I looked in bios and the board sees that there is something there but will not boot it. It defaults to the on board video. I tried to tell it to boot pcie x video first but it always boots the onboard and reverts the setting in bios back to auto.
It has a core i5 2400
650 w psu
8 gb kingston ram

Any help would be appreciated.

Also i put the old asus board and 550 ti in another case for my son and it does the same thing it did before but the card works.

Thanks,

 

[ihog]

All signs lead to a faulty card, in my opinion.

 

[LarryBailey]

Just popped in my head that if the video card is having trouble communicating with the motherboard like it does with the P5B deluxe then the on board video would take over and it never has a chance to do the reboot to detect it the second time. So I guess my next question is how do I get my bios to stop reverting to "Auto" for video?

 

[ihog]

There should be a setting in the bios to change that.

 

[LarryBailey]

There is but it always reverts back to "Auto" every time I reboot it after changing it. If I can just keep it on PCIe I'm sure it would do the same as the old board which is a hassle but it does work and I want to play COD Ghosts.

 

[ihog]

Try updating to or reinstalling the latest stable bios and see if it reverts to auto every time you reboot.

Do your other settings stay when you change them reboot?

 

[LarryBailey]

I have updated the bios to a newer version, and both versions do the same thing. And all the settings stay the same after a reboot except that one. I guess i'm just going to chalk this up to a defective card. Wish I was able to determine that when I bought it. Thanks,