Strange gibberish in BIOS with GTX 960

[alcoholbob]

I just dropped a GTX 960 into my HTPC, previously was using HD4400 IGPU on my i5 4430 CPU. Computer has 8GB of DDR3 1600 RAM (was 4GB earlier when pic was taken), a 400W Seasonic X-400 PSU, a MSI H81 Mini-ITX motherboard, and 120GB SSD running Win 10.

Now whenever I post the splash screen only displays 1/4 of the logo, and also the BIOS is filled with random gibberish characters and is zoomed in like it's 320x240 or something. Also I can navigate (sorta) through the viewable area of the BIOS, but can't change any values or the BIOS freezes. If I change any values the only thing I can do is control-alt-delete and reboot.

I have no issues gaming even can pass 3DMark, Heaven, etc benchmarks, AIDA64 is fine as well. I never see any characters like this in Windows. Is this a BIOS issue or is something wrong with the GPU? Or could it just be the GTX960 cant detect the monitor resolution at boot (since its a HDTV) and is defaulting to this low res?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Would advise removing GPU, running on onboard video, flash the BIOS to newest, then re-install GPU.

 

[alcoholbob]

Seems to be an HDMI issue with the GTX 960 and only when going into the BIOS. I tried HDMI with a Dell 2740L and the Acer B326HK and HDMI had the same gibberish going on, but displayport and DVI didn't come up with any of these messages and displayed fullscreen properly and there was no BIOS freezing.

 

[Burpo]

Could it be that the MSI onboard HDMI not getting a return signal/handshake from the TV/Monitor, causing this?

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

That is Bios corruption

 

[C1]

Study this thread :

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/328010-30-bios-screen-blank-screen

 

[Burpo]

"The issue for you guys not getting a display is a handshaking problem between your GPU and monitor. The only resolution supported by UEFI is 1280X1024. If for some reason your GPU and TV/monitor don't handshake at that resolution, you'll see the splash screen but either get a garbled display or no display in UEFI."