Desperate for help with my Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3

[benfinch92]

Hi all,

Thanks for looking to begin with. Just recently built my own PC. Specs are:

EVGA 600W 80+ bronze PSU
2x4GB HyperX Savage RAM
Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 rev 5.0
WesternDigital 1TB HDD
MSI Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 OC edition
AMD FX6300 CPU 3.5GHz

So I'm having a big problem with the 960. When plugging it in and powering up, my monitor displays nothing but a black screen and indicates it is in sleep mode (blue led flashing around the on/off button). I've tried 4 different cards (760, 660, 650 and 210) all working first time with no problems but the 960 just will not work. The PC boots up just fine as I can hear it loading Skype/Windows etc through the speakers but just won't display anything. However, after turning the PC off manually 3 or 4 times it tends to work eventually and will work just fine as if there was never any problems.

I spoke to Tech support at Ebuyer the website I bought the 960 off which I was trying to arranged an RMA with, and the guy said that the MSI cards are supported on UEFI boards only. I told him that I had it working a couple of times and he was surprised.

The question I would like to ask you guys really is, is the 960 compatible with my motherboard?

And also, how do I go about updating my BIOS to UEFI if even possible with this board?

Thanks,

Ben

[dmdilks]

There is no bios update to UEFI for this board. The other thing is that this board only supports 2.0 cards. You have a 3.0 & UEFI. Plus there is no bios at all for this board more likely there will be no updates at all.

I have a friend that just bought a GTX-980 card from me. He had problems getting it to work. Plus he is running a X79 board that supports UEFI. He was lucky that all he had to do was update his bios.

The series 900 cards you need the newer boards to get them to work. Yes there are people that do buy them and get them to work on a little older board and lucky their are too.