Bios screen twice and asking which drive to boot from every time?

[sac811]

Mind you, this is only happening when I install my 9800GTX+ video card. If it uses the onboard video, it does neither.

Any ideas on what could be the issue?

ASrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 Mobo
MSI R6950 Twin frozr II/OC Video Card (now removed)
XFX 550w PSU
Intel 2500k stock fan
Samsung 830 SSD
LiteOn DVD burner
8gigs of Patriot Ram

Previous problem information:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2260567

 

[denis280]

When you put in the card do you plug in the 6 pins connector.

 

[sac811]

When you put in the card do you plug in the 6 pins connector.

Yes sir, the MSI had 2 6-pin connectors, the 9800GTX+ has one.

 

[Bubbaleone]

Mind you, this is only happening when I install my 9800GTX+ video card. If it uses the onboard video, it does neither.

Any ideas on what could be the issue?

ASrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 Mobo
MSI R6950 Twin frozr II/OC Video Card (now removed)
XFX 550w PSU
Intel 2500k stock fan
Samsung 830 SSD
LiteOn DVD burner
8gigs of Patriot Ram

Previous problem information:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2260567

Now that you've got the sound problem sorted, I have three suggestions; If you haven't already tried, reset your BIOS to default settings and test the video card that way. If no change, then compare you're current BIOS version with the latest Asrock BIOS: Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 BIOS, and update if yours is older. Also, compare the driver versions you're currently running with the latset Asrock drivers: Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 Drivers. You'll need to determine what's appropriate for your hardware setup but eliminating outdated BIOS and driver versions, as a source of conflict, is where I'd start.

 

[sac811]

Yup, forgot to post update, but I did fix my problems that werent there with my MSI 6950 but showed up all of a sudden with the 9800GTX+ by updated my bios to the latest version.

Everything seems to work fine now, the only thing that remains a little odd is that the bios splash, and windows 7 boot is at something of a 3/4 screen but once in Windows goes to the full 1080 I have it set at.

It was always full screen everywhere with the MSI, not sure why the GTX is different with that.

But thats of so little importance I'm not worried about it.

Thanks for the help.