Can't see the mobo's BIOS

[sutahz]

I built myself a new comptuer this weekend and encountered a peculiar problem. Upon powering up with the GA-Z77X-UD5H and EVGA 560 Ti (and hitting del to enter the BIOS setup) I would see the BIOS flash screen for only a brief moment then there is a blinking cursor in the top left for another moment, and then just a blank screen with the mobo displaying the AB code (waiting for user input for the BIOS).
Eventually I came up with the idea of putting in my GTX 260 to see if that would help and it did, I could enter the BIOS and make necessary changes.
Everything is fine now as I only needed to install the 260 to make the DVD-ROM the first boot option and the OS hdd the 2nd but should I want to make other changes to the BIOS I'd rather not have to swap out gfx cards again.
So any idea's on what might be causing the 560 to not be able to display gigabytes/AMT bios?

 

[The_Golden_Man]

I built myself a new comptuer this weekend and encountered a peculiar problem. Upon powering up with the GA-Z77X-UD5H and EVGA 560 Ti (and hitting del to enter the BIOS setup) I would see the BIOS flash screen for only a brief moment then there is a blinking cursor in the top left for another moment, and then just a blank screen with the mobo displaying the AB code (waiting for user input for the BIOS).
Eventually I came up with the idea of putting in my GTX 260 to see if that would help and it did, I could enter the BIOS and make necessary changes.
Everything is fine now as I only needed to install the 260 to make the DVD-ROM the first boot option and the OS hdd the 2nd but should I want to make other changes to the BIOS I'd rather not have to swap out gfx cards again.
So any idea's on what might be causing the 560 to not be able to display gigabytes/AMT bios?

What connection do you use? DVI? If so, try the other DVI port. If not, try both VGA and HDMI connections. See if it makes a difference.

 

[sutahz]

What connection do you use? DVI? If so, try the other DVI port. If not, try both VGA and HDMI connections. See if it makes a difference.

Good point, I should have described my troubleshooting in more depth.
At first I had the dvi cable hooked up to the DVI port on the video card furthest from the removeable side/panel (looking at the rear of the PC, the connection on the left). At first I thought it was a bad mobo but knew I needed to verify that. So then I did switch which dvi port I connected to, and on the 'right' connector there was no video out at all. So I decided that since my cpu has integrated video I tried w/ the dvi cable hooked up to the mobo with the 560 installed and uninstalled, and with all this I either had no video out or the same as the initial problem. Typing this all out, it seems I must have not done something right or did something wrong to not get proper video out w/ no 560 installed :\
After some t/s'ing I looked up on Gigabytes site about cpu compatibility and noted that my cpu (I5-3570K) was compatible w/ BIOS F6 and my board came w/ F5. So i updated to F8 but that of course didn't fix my problem.
So I installed the 260, got my BIOS the way it needed to be for the bare minimum (boot from DVD to install OS, have the drive my OS is on be the 2nd boot option) then reinstalled the 560 and have just not worried about messing around in the BIOS.
Again, it's not critical to get this fixed, but I find this problem very odd indeed.

 

[The_Golden_Man]

Good point, I should have described my troubleshooting in more depth.
At first I had the dvi cable hooked up to the DVI port on the video card furthest from the removeable side/panel (looking at the rear of the PC, the connection on the left). At first I thought it was a bad mobo but knew I needed to verify that. So then I did switch which dvi port I connected to, and on the 'right' connector there was no video out at all. So I decided that since my cpu has integrated video I tried w/ the dvi cable hooked up to the mobo with the 560 installed and uninstalled, and with all this I either had no video out or the same as the initial problem. Typing this all out, it seems I must have not done something right or did something wrong to not get proper video out w/ no 560 installed :\
After some t/s'ing I looked up on Gigabytes site about cpu compatibility and noted that my cpu (I5-3570K) was compatible w/ BIOS F6 and my board came w/ F5. So i updated to F8 but that of course didn't fix my problem.
So I installed the 260, got my BIOS the way it needed to be for the bare minimum (boot from DVD to install OS, have the drive my OS is on be the 2nd boot option) then reinstalled the 560 and have just not worried about messing around in the BIOS.
Again, it's not critical to get this fixed, but I find this problem very odd indeed.

Did you try to disable onboard graphics? Or change what adapter to initialize first

 

[sutahz]

Did you try to disable onboard graphics? Or change what adapter to initialize first

I did switch the display option from Auto to PEG and that didn't change the way the 560 displayed the BIOS. As I'm not actually interested in getting integrated gfx working I didn't worry about setting it to IGP.