Z97X Gaming 5 - no video signal with Geforce drivers

[johnysvk]

So I bought this motherboard with Intel Core i5 4690k and everything works wondeful except geforce drivers.

As soon as they are activated by installer my screen goes off (no signal). After restart I can see everything at boot and windows loading but after that - again no signal and screen goes off. Tested with dsub LCD and HDMI TV.

What to do?

Graphic card is Zotac GTS450 1GB DDDR5 and works with my old setup - Q6600, Asus P5K Pro with any Geforce drivers without any problems....

so what is going on. Was looking forward to a weekend to test new PC with games and something like this happend.

[autotech]

Go into safe mode if possible and roll it back to before you installed the video card drivers. Will it run off the windows drivers ok. Then messes up with the nvida drivers after you install them?

[johnysvk]

Go into safe mode if possible and roll it back to before you installed the video card drivers. Will it run off the windows drivers ok. Then messes up with the nvida drivers after you install them?

yes, it works again after I unistalled geforce drivers with basic windows graphic driver, but as soon as I reinstall geforce drivers (any version) I have no signal issue again.


Bios is F4 version, there is F5 version on support page, but it says nothing about fixing any issues, just adding support for new Pentium AE G3258 CPU overclocking function and Improve SSD Performance. So I doubt it will help at all.

[johnysvk]

switching PCIE from AUTO to GEN1 solved my issue.

[shadowsports]

Greetings,
Glad you figured this out.  For my own information an the benefit of others, can you please confirm what generation is reported in the GForce Control Panel Properties.  You may want to try the Gen2 (BIOS setting) since your card is PCIe 2.0 spec.

[johnysvk]

with generation 2 I was getting no signal. Only switching to gen 1 resolved my problem.

 It must be something between mobo bios and gpu bios and geforce drivers... because my card is definitely PCIe 2.0

[autotech]

Others have had this problem also. When updated drivers come out try them. Or an updated bios. The results from others half were bios updates and the other half ( larger half ) said newer drivers fixed them.

[johnysvk]

I am already on latest drivers. Gigabyte should fix their .... because 90% of people complaining about this problem have Gigabyte mobo.

[shadowsports]

I think the fact that Gigabyte offers AUTO, GEN1&2 BIOS settings to ensure compatibility with older devices demonstrates their commitment supporting legacy products.  Your card is nearly 5 yrs old.  What matters however is that you solved the problem.