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Borked my Bios - Need Advice

EduCat

EduCat

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The things I do late at night lol.

So my gtx980 currently has some bugs, the latest drivers run like poop on my machine. Essentially there are two issues:

1. The latest drivers cause a bug to happen where my OC controls go out of control. (1000+)
2. There is a bug where the card will not downclock itself, and just continue to run full clock regardless. (This is a software conflict issue I believe.)

I had been running a driver version that was two versions old and everything was good again. Of course I attempted to upgrade to the latest drivers yet again. Things got real strange. OC values went absolute crazy and I just assume my computer was overclocking itself to death. Problem was I couldn't adjust any settings. Eventually all of the 'windows' within Windows just went black, couldnt click anything, could use task manager. No safe mode, nothing. This was right when I was about to go to sleep.

So I figure I would try to run off integrated graphics, uninstall the nvidia drivers, and hopefully be ok. It didn't work out, unfortunately. For some reason in the integrated graphics section of my bios I changed it from PEG to IGD. Now I pretty much cant even get the computer to post, I want to say it gets stuck on code 62 or something similar.

I was able to get the computer booted and running using the 2nd bios (w00t!) but I am wondering what steps I should take in order to get the 1st bios going again, if possible.

I am hoping I didn't hurt my system in anyway so far. I have tried to reset the cmos by unplugging and taking out the battery, no go as of yet. I do not get anything on the screen when I actually try to use the IGD. Also, when switching between bios using the switch on the motherboard, I assume you must have the PC off, no?

Thoughts? Thanks guys!
 
Did you take the Nvidia card out (and leave it out) before you reset the CMOS?

Not much I can do to help with your bios issue without knowing what board you have.

If you know that a driver works well with your card, I see no reason to update it (yes, even if it is a 980). Is there some feature in the newer driver you were looking for?
 
ketchup79 said:
Did you take the Nvidia card out (and leave it out) before you reset the CMOS?

Not much I can do to help with your bios issue without knowing what board you have.
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My bad, it's an MSI z77 mpower big bang edition board. I had to take out the card in order to remove the battery. I left everything unplugged for about 10 minutes.

I did it because I was trying to benchmark the card and I wanted everything to be on the same drivers. lol Like I said, the stupid things I do late at night. 😀
 
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Set the board to run on the regular BIOS, use the clear CMOS button on the back panel and let us know if it will boot.
 
Back in action! For some reason it came up with the IGPU and then I switched it to the video card and it looks like we are good to go.

Thank you Ketchup!
 
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