Help...weird issue

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so here it goes.

I have a asus maximus formula 787 motherboard with a 4770k and a gtx 670 4gb card and a corsair tx750 16 gb ripjaw 1600 ram. I recently had an issue wih sli and pulled the bad card.now for some reason m system wont boot with  a gpu installed.it boots fine with intel hd graphics but when ever a graphics card is installed it gets to through the windows boot then goes to a black screen and kills the power to the keyboard and mouse.the system just sits their.i blew away the ssd and installed fresh windows.at first it seemed ok.then i went to put a driver on the card and low and behlold same issue.so i pulled that card and put it in my wifes computer...the 670 works flawlessly.I put her gtx 570 in my rig and SAME issue.SO its not the card.is it the motherboard or the psu? im stumped.The system runs great with intergrated graphics

Any ideas

 

p.s i forgot windows 8.1 fully updated( i know that is a issue but it is not THE issue)

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you know you acknowledged your exact problem...

your driver isn't working correctly, remove it and use an older one

(or the pci-e slot your using is busted, unlikely)

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sorry i should have clarified.it worked ok as in when you first build a system and it has that generic vga driver that wont let you go over 800 x 600.yea that one works great but if i try to install any nvidia driver(even the older ones) it sends me into that black screen as soon as windows loads. works great if i use intergated graphics. 

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and i tried all three of my x16 slots

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any driver, huh, that is strange

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yea i know at first i though it had to be the card,but its not. None of this makes sense.its quite frustrating.

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ok so i tried it with a radeon 5450... windows booting animation then black screen and keyboard and mouse cut out...... hd graphics still work fine.are all three of my x16 lane bad? i can muck around in the bios and the windows recovery screen with all three cards but not boot to windows even after a clean install(except for that generic vga driver) an suggestions would be appreciated

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I wonder if there's a problem in the bios or something in the chipset thats gone bad, although we have no way of testing that. I'd personally check the board physically and see if there's any physical damage. Maybe a short or a bad capacitor.  

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nothing that i can see.

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Do you have another card you can test? If not do you have any other pci-e cards to test the slots? Have you made sure your HD graphics are disabled in the bios? I haven't had integrated graphics for 5 or 6 years, but I was always under the impression that it's considered good practice to disable the integrated graphics in the bios if you were running a discrete card. I'm not sure if it will help but it's something you could try. 

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i reset the bios and now it seems to be working.....strange was not running an overclock and i didnt mess with the bios anywhere near when this happened... thank you all for our ideas they really did help