Asus Rampage IV Extreme No Display. PLEASE HELP!

[Zaman]

Hello everyone,


Ok. I have a major issue. I have a Asus Ramapage IV extreme motherboard with GTX 760 Graphics card. x4 gb Rams on the red ports.
All is well. However it is not.

Around 3 weeks ago, my pc was functioning normal. I was playing games such as skyrim ESO online etc

Now when I turned it on, my pc would keep on rebooting several times. After doing to cmos reset and turning off the power supply, I can get into the bios settings. I turned everything there back to default settings. Tried loading my computer and as soon as it goes to the windows logo, i would not get any display. (HDMI connection from graphics card to TV).
This is so odd. I then rebooted my computer through safe mode and now it comes on and i can get past the logo screen.
I then updated my bios to the latest (4901) version. I popped in my windows 7 cd and did a clean install. After the clean install,
I was able to go past the logo screen. I then started installing the device drivers and when i installed the graphics drivers, i now cannot get past the windows logo screen again. I can get past it via safe mode. But after installing the GTX 760 drivers i cannot get past it. My display code on the motherboard is AA in both safe mode and normal boot but with no display


p.s I have a 1050 PSU(power supply unit)
What is going on?

Please help.

[Arne_Saknussemm]

AA means BIOS has handed over to OS so seems PC is fine but you have display problem somewhere in the chain...first obvious thing is to try a different cable for connecting...DP or DVI-D or other HDMI

Then a different GPU if you have an old one handy...

[jab383]

Hi Zaman, and welcome

The issue may be the use of a TV. Many video drivers depend on EDID data from a monitor to describe the monitor's capabilities. TVs don't do EDID. The generic Microsoft driver doesn't care about capabilities or EDID and may well work with a TV. As soon as you switch to the Nvidia driver, the driver gets lost.

The suggestion: try a monitor rather than a TV.

Jeff

[SplatMan_DK]

I have this exact same issue; and it is not because of using a TV as a monitor or a bad DVI cable.

I will admit to using a DVI cable; but have tried several, as well as a VGA connection using a DVI/VGA converter. I unfortunately do not have Displayport on my monitor.

When the machine boots, it will loose its picture - either immediately after windows log-on, or after quitting a game. Once the picture has gone, there is no way of getting it back short of shutting power completely of (on the wall), removing the graphics card, booting once (sometimes twice) to fore the motherboard to reset its resource allocation to PCIe ports, and then re-insert the graphics card.

The problem is new, the machine used to be stable before a minor overhaul this weekend. I did three changes:

1.) Upgrade RAM to a slightly faster kit (same memory amount)
2.) Update BIOS to latest, to attempt an overclock of the 3820 CPU
3.) Replaced the air-cooled ATI 6870x2 graphics card with a watercooled GTX 760.

After experiencing the issues - primarily seeing the PC boot the OS - I naturally tried reverting the changes to isolate the problem. It was extremely disappointing to realize that nothing seemed to solve the issue.

So it isn't the RAM, and it isn't the graphics card. I tried downgrading the BIOS to no avail, but the old version I had before is not available for download so I can't downgrade to that exact version.

The motherboard has not previously been overclocked, and the only attempted overclock we tried with was the AI Suite's automatic "Level up" function. So presumably settings were within acceptable limits; still, reverting everything to default settings did nothing to fix the issue.

The motherboard and CPU are both watercooled - with temps never exceeding 50 C. It runs about 3 degrees above ambient temp when idle (including the GTX 760 on the loop) and about 50 C when running BOINC on all cores and the GPU. I think that's pretty acceptable and that cooling isn't the problem. I have run countless PC's on water for well over a decade so I am also quite confident I din't make any errors. It is also worth noting that the MB and CPU has been running on water for about 2 years with no issues, with very low temps (it was watercooled for noise reduction, not overclocking).

Any input or suggested actions to further diagnose the issue would be appreciated.

I note that a lot of users report variants of this problem on the 'net, so googling "rampage IV extreme no POST" or "rampage IV extreme no video" seems to indicate there is a wider issue in play here. Sadly I have been unable to identify a working solution.