Trouble receiving display on new GPU?

zex_vex55

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I recently bought a new gpu, a GTX 970. When I first installed the gpu everything worked like a charm. A few days later I decided to download and try to apply Light Boost for those that are familiar with it, it reduces blur in 2D and works with nvidia cards. After going through the installation, it prompts you to restart your pc. At that point I started to have issues with receiving a display on my monitor. Right when my pc restarted I got no display on start up. I sat there for a good 15 minutes, hard restarting my pc, re-inserting the card and dvi cable trying to get a display. Sometimes I would receive a display sometimes I wouldn't.

I would also sometimes receive a display on my main monitor when I had my main monitor hooked up to my GPU , and my 2nd monitor hooked up to the mobo which seems odd. Regardless, I'd have to finick with the cables, plugging and unplugging them and hard resetting my pc until I got a display on my monitor.

Today, I decided to upgrade to windows 10 and I chose the "remove all my files" option. I still am having issues with receiving a display on my monitor though. Sometimes I'll get a display right when I boot up, then right before the windows log in screen my monitor will say "no signal."

Any ideas on what the issue might be? The monitor works fine with my old card, it's just the new card. Could it have to do with the light boost that works only with nvidia cards? Help very much appreciated.

Monitor: ASUS VG248QE
Mobo: Biostar H61MGC
CPU: Intel I-5 2400
GPU: GTX 970, display works fine with Radeon 7800
8 GB DDR G Skill Ram
Corsair 700s PSU
 
Solution
Get into safe mode with networking , download http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/

Clean your nvidia drivers and restart, in the application

Your pc will boot up after that using your basic pc display adapter, not using the nvidia drivers. If it boots fine, that means its a driver issue

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I'm having trouble getting a display through my GPU right now so I'm plugged into my motherboard. I did get a display a few minutes ago, but when I booted up it started the windows repair and had to restart my pc, after that my display didn't come back.
 

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I attempted to reset the CMOS, after doing so I booted up with my monitor plugged into my gpu. It said CMOS Fail, so I went into bios and reset everything to default, the display was working fine until I went to restart the computer. I restarted the computer, I saw the windows loading screen for 1-2 seconds, the monitor flickered black and said no dvi display. :fou:
 

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I was able to get into safe mode just fine today, I installed the nvidia drivers then restarted my pc. I loaded up the "GeForce Experience" application when I got it, and it downloaded some additional drivers, 3D various other things. It restarted once more, but nothing displayed on my monitor. Could it be one of the drivers?
 

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Get into safe mode with networking , download http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/

Clean your nvidia drivers and restart, in the application

Your pc will boot up after that using your basic pc display adapter, not using the nvidia drivers. If it boots fine, that means its a driver issue
 
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zex_vex55

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Haven't been able to get a display since downloading the drivers. I was able to completely wipe the drivers, but couldn't get a display back on my monitor since. I'm thinking I'll purchase a new mobo, as I've wanted one anyway and install everything, possibly breadboard it this weekend and see how it works that way. It's just incredibly odd that sometimes it works, other times it doesn't. Maybe a faulty or sensitive connection somewhere in the case? My other GPU still works fine, but it's smaller than the GTX 970.

Any suggestions for a decent, compatible mobo in the ~$100 range?
 

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I actually ended up returning the GPU and picking up a Radeon R390. Works like a charm, haven't had any display issues whatsoever. I did get a display on the nvidia card before I turned it in, however after getting a display I restarted my computer and it happened again. Still very odd how it would receive a display about 10% of the time when restarting/turning the computer on.