Warbloke
Bronze Level Poster
Hi, I called Tech support and have something to try tonight... but thought Id check with the forum if anyone has experienced this and could hopefully help too.
So I was having an issue with Windows 10 wanting to always update itself. It constantly failed to put in the Fall update (which I learned was due to me having an NVMe hard drive)
(400GB INTEL® 750 SERIES PCIe SSD )
That issue is well documented out there I learned... but the solution was not.
I read things to suggest perhaps updating the BIOS on my motherboard might help... so I did... and here is where my big issue happened.
I used the motherboards (Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5P) built in Q-FLASH capability to update to the latest BIOS version (F24b ) that was available on the Gigabyte Website.
Its a very straight forward process to do. Its hard to go wrong... download the BIOS file... put in on a flash drive... browse to it and update.
Everything looked like it was going well on screen... progress bar moving along etc...
Once it got to the end it rebooted... then... nothing.
I have no display. The monitor (connected via Display port to my Nvidia GTX980Ti) remains blank like there is no signal.
There is no BEEP either.
I tried connecting via DVI to VGA... but no display either.
This motherboard has no Onboard graphics so I cant connect that way.
I then tried the other BIOS version... using the Q-FLASH-PLUS method.... including the one I see PCspecialist must have originally saved in my downloads.
(Removing my RAM (KINGSTON HYPER-X PREDATOR QUAD-DDR4 3000MHz X.M.P), downloading the BIOS file.... putting it on a USB key renaming the file to GIGABYTE.bin..... putting it in the white USB port... RAM back in and switching on....
The LED flashes orange as I read it should.... comes back on solid.... gave it some time.... )
issue remains though... so Im stuck with a dead PC.
I called tech support... Im advised to try flashing it back to the latest version again... then try disconnecting my NVMe hard drive and powering on.
I will try this tonight and see what happens.
If that doesn't work Id need to send it in they say.
I have also ordered a cheaper graphics card (Gigabyte GV-N210SL-1GI GeForce 210 Graphics Card (1GB, ATX, DVI-I, VGA HDMI) )
as its only £25 to plug that in, then try a VGA output to a VGA monitor encase its switched to some crazy low resolution that my GPU and or Monitor cant see.
Can anyone think of anything else I can try ?
So I was having an issue with Windows 10 wanting to always update itself. It constantly failed to put in the Fall update (which I learned was due to me having an NVMe hard drive)
(400GB INTEL® 750 SERIES PCIe SSD )
That issue is well documented out there I learned... but the solution was not.
I read things to suggest perhaps updating the BIOS on my motherboard might help... so I did... and here is where my big issue happened.
I used the motherboards (Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5P) built in Q-FLASH capability to update to the latest BIOS version (F24b ) that was available on the Gigabyte Website.
Its a very straight forward process to do. Its hard to go wrong... download the BIOS file... put in on a flash drive... browse to it and update.
Everything looked like it was going well on screen... progress bar moving along etc...
Once it got to the end it rebooted... then... nothing.
I have no display. The monitor (connected via Display port to my Nvidia GTX980Ti) remains blank like there is no signal.
There is no BEEP either.
I tried connecting via DVI to VGA... but no display either.
This motherboard has no Onboard graphics so I cant connect that way.
I then tried the other BIOS version... using the Q-FLASH-PLUS method.... including the one I see PCspecialist must have originally saved in my downloads.
(Removing my RAM (KINGSTON HYPER-X PREDATOR QUAD-DDR4 3000MHz X.M.P), downloading the BIOS file.... putting it on a USB key renaming the file to GIGABYTE.bin..... putting it in the white USB port... RAM back in and switching on....
The LED flashes orange as I read it should.... comes back on solid.... gave it some time.... )
issue remains though... so Im stuck with a dead PC.
I called tech support... Im advised to try flashing it back to the latest version again... then try disconnecting my NVMe hard drive and powering on.
I will try this tonight and see what happens.
If that doesn't work Id need to send it in they say.
I have also ordered a cheaper graphics card (Gigabyte GV-N210SL-1GI GeForce 210 Graphics Card (1GB, ATX, DVI-I, VGA HDMI) )
as its only £25 to plug that in, then try a VGA output to a VGA monitor encase its switched to some crazy low resolution that my GPU and or Monitor cant see.
Can anyone think of anything else I can try ?