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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: Anchoret on June 05, 2015, 03:58:36 am

Title: Will GA-970A-UD3P r2 Boot With a Non-UEFI VidCard Installed?
Post by: Anchoret on June 05, 2015, 03:58:36 am

Question is as simple as that.  I have a new build with RAM arriving tomorrow and the only video card available is non-UEFI.

If it won't boot with this video card, I obviously can't get to the settings to change anything.

Many thanks for good information!

Title: Re: Will GA-970A-UD3P r2 Boot With a Non-UEFI VidCard Installed?
Post by: Tiger on June 05, 2015, 02:08:24 pm

In order to configure Fast Boot in Windows 8 you need that. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Graphics Output Protocol or UEFI GOP can remarkably increase the boot speeding of a Windows 8 computer.

If Secure Boot is enabled in Windows 8, the system may not boot.

These options are not enabled by default so having a Non-UEFI VidCard installed should not be a problem.

Title: Re: Will GA-970A-UD3P r2 Boot With a Non-UEFI VidCard Installed?
Post by: Anchoret on June 05, 2015, 02:51:11 pm

No, I'm not going to be running W8, but W7, and at this point there is no OS on the unformatted SSD anyway.

Quick boot is not a priority.

I just want to have the thing boot to the installation disk and have video to work with from there instead of a blank screen.

Apparently, this frustrating outcome happens with some UEFI motherboards with non-UEFI video cards.  I just wanted to make sure mine wasn't one of them.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Will GA-970A-UD3P r2 Boot With a Non-UEFI VidCard Installed?
Post by: dmdilks on June 06, 2015, 12:10:10 am

One thing you could do is give us some more info on the new build like what CPU, memory, and video card. It might not be the video card.