Good afternoon guys,
It's been a while since I've been on here. It's amazing what time does to you.
Anywho, I just built a new rig (i7 7700k with Gigabyte Z170 XP motherboard, GTX980 Ti, and 32GB DDR4 RAM). The motherboard, without an Updated BIOS, does not support my CPU. I'm finding this out since I am trying to start the PC for the first time, and it acts like it is booting (hard drive is picking up speed, as well as the other case fans), but I'm not getting any display. Is this a Graphics card issue, or is a BIOS issue? If it's a BIOS issue, how can I fix this? Can I possibly boot to a bootable flashdrive that will update the BIOS, or should I buy a cheap Skylake CPU and boot from that and then update the BIOS?
It's been a while since I've been on here. It's amazing what time does to you.
Anywho, I just built a new rig (i7 7700k with Gigabyte Z170 XP motherboard, GTX980 Ti, and 32GB DDR4 RAM). The motherboard, without an Updated BIOS, does not support my CPU. I'm finding this out since I am trying to start the PC for the first time, and it acts like it is booting (hard drive is picking up speed, as well as the other case fans), but I'm not getting any display. Is this a Graphics card issue, or is a BIOS issue? If it's a BIOS issue, how can I fix this? Can I possibly boot to a bootable flashdrive that will update the BIOS, or should I buy a cheap Skylake CPU and boot from that and then update the BIOS?