UEFI and GPU?

[n0x1ous]

PNY reference 780 boots up and flashes some text about its bios and name before seeing motherboard bios splash screen. Never seen this before with a GPU.

Is this some kind of UEFI thing or what?

 

[ShintaiDK]

Its just the VGA BIOS showing. It got nothing to do with UEFI. It was quite normal in the old days. Today its rather strange.

 

[KaRLiToS]

PNY reference 780 boots up and flashes some text about its bios and name before seeing motherboard bios splash screen. Never seen this before with a GPU.

Is this some kind of UEFI thing or what?

I remember my Geforce 3 was doing that in 2001.

I remember I could edit the BIOS and could edit that message and I wrote some profanity in the boot message. (Yes I was 16 years old back then)

 

[n0x1ous]

I remember my Geforce 3 was doing that in 2001.

I remember I could edit the BIOS and could edit that message and I wrote some profanity in the boot message. (Yes I was 16 years old back then)

haha - good stuff Karlitos.

So anyone else experience this on GTX 700 series cards? a PNY thing perhaps? Never had a PNY before but I typically buy reference cards for multi-gpu and they were the cheapest.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

PNY has done this for an eternity. It used to be very common, I've not seen it used by many others in recent years tho.

 

[n0x1ous]

Just an FYI on this, I added a second PNY reference 780 this week and ever since I did, this VGA bios text no longer appears at boot - just the normal motherboard boot.....