Maximus VI hero A2 and AE but no display.

[OFFLINEX]

I just finished building my system and everything starts up fine, no beeping or anything and goes to a2 or ae which as I understand it is the bios screen or os. But I have no display, I have a GeForce gtx 770 using a DVI-D to the monitor with no adapters, both the 6 pin and 6+2pins from the psu are firmly in place on the graphics card and the fans are spinning. So I'm not quite sure what my problem is.

[HiVizMan]

Did you at any point use the onboard graphics?

Please try your VGA in a different PCIe slot.

If that fails.

Could you try the onboard graphics just to enter bios and set PCIe as your default settings.

But it should just work.

[OFFLINEX]

*update* I disconnected the Dvi-d to my computer monitor and did a direct hdmi from my mobo to my tv and the bios is up now with ae. Is there a setting in the bios for the graphics card? Or should I try another slot?

[HiVizMan]

Try another slot, and then in bios go to the main OC page, scroll down until you see the GPU/DIMM option, go have a look if your graphic card is being picked up at all.

[OFFLINEX]

Haven't tried another slot yet but the GPU.DIMM post says N/A for gpu, so does that mean my PCIe slot is bad? Will change slots and update.

[HiVizMan]

It just means for what ever reason the VGA is not being picked up by that slot.

Why is what we are trying to work out.

[OFFLINEX]

*success!* PCIe slot 1 now recognizes my gpu. I'm curious though what's the difference the first slot says "x16/x8" and the second slot says only "x8". Also is there anything else I need to do before I can boot it up?

[HiVizMan]

The chipset is laid out in that manner, the top slot is 16x.


The only advice I give you is when you install your os, do not have other hard drives connected. Just your OS drive. 😄 Will save you much heart ache later as the OS likes to stick the boot sector anywhere it wants. 😄

Oh and enjoy your system.

[OFFLINEX]

Big thanks for all the help but now apparently I have a CPU fan error when I tried to load my windows 8 from disc. Both CPU fan and CPU opt are plugged in and running. The CPU fan I have is a cooler master hyper 212 evo. The opt is just a case fan (rosewill r5 case).

*fixed* had to go into the bios and adjust the CPU fan min speed down to 300. Not sure why but now it's working.

[HiVizMan]

LOL it is working because the min level is 600 for default and many fans run slower than that.