Video Card Incompatible?

[Justin19]

I have had a strange ongoing problem.

Short Story, bought an MSI GTX 970 a month or so back. It worked for 3 weeks, then during a play of the witcher it crashed. I could not at all get it to send a signal to the monitor, so I sent it back in. In the meantime I put my GTX660 back in and it worked but had issues until I did a bios update and fixed my problems. A week later(yesterday) I received my new Computer case and an exchange of the MSI video card I bought. I put everything in the new case and the new video card in and again same problem, go to boot up and no signal to the monitors, fans begin to spin and then stop 10 seconds after.

Here is where it gets strange, If I put my friends GTX 780 in my computer it works fine, if I put the GTX 970 I just bought into his computer it works fine. I cannot for the life of me figure this out.....

MSI Z77A-GD65 is my board.
MSI GTX 960 GAMING 4G is my graphics card.

 

[avenseth12]

I have that same motherboard in a build and had the same problems. I had to install the GPU in the lower PCIe slot and roll back my video drivers to an older version to get it to work. May be a defect in those boards. I also bought a Gigabyte board and no problems since then.

 

[Justin19]

Well I did try the middle one to no avail(cant try bottom now as I am at work at the moment)

 

[avenseth12]

Try to delete all the graphics card drivers off your PC and then install an older version and see if they works.

 

[Justin19]

Ok I can do that tomorrow

You think the graphics drivers from the gtx 660 would cause black screen prior to MSI boot screen?

 

[Justin19]

Tried removing the drivers, with that guru thing and it cleaned them out, still nothing with the compatible drivers.

The funny thing is that the card sure gets hot, the heat pipes definitely are getting warm. Fan still spins for about 15 seconds on boot but stops.

I just dont get it, nothing that i tried works.

 

[Justin19]

Solved the problem, turns out it was the motherboard fore sure. Bought a mATX board from amazon threw it in and the gtx 970 works just fine. Still no idea as to why the other board wont work with it but ill send it back for now.

 

[harryfishrules]

Solved the problem, turns out it was the motherboard fore sure. Bought a mATX board from amazon threw it in and the gtx 970 works just fine. Still no idea as to why the other board wont work with it but ill send it back for now.

Hey Justin19. As the issue is now resolved, if you could mark someone's response as the solution, it'll help them out but also let everyone know that the issue has been resolved. Thanks.