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June 17th, 2017 21:00
Aurora R3 bios settings help
So I got what I feel like was a good deal. I paid 150 for a used Aurora R3. Specs are
I5 2300 water cooled
8gb ddr3
2x gts 450 sli
1tb hd
Ok so I wanted to install my extra gpu I had in it. It was an xfx rx 470 4gb. I researched It and knew it probably wouldn't work do to lack of bios support but read alot of stuff that said different thimgs so decided to try it. It was a fail. So I figured my hd 6870 I also had hanging out woulda probably be an upgrade... However it would post, I wasnt getting a signal. I removed bios battery and tried again. . . this is where things got more complicated.
The pc started basically not working. It would beep once. Then the screen would flicker a bit no images. A whote cursor would flash a time or two then go solid black... I could spam the f2 and get bios setting and tired resetting bios multiple times. Finally I decided to put windows 7 disc in and reformat. It went through first steps installed foe system restartes and went to solid black screen. Tried several more times. Still no alien head screen and kept getting solid black screen.
Next I went through bios settings and finally found the raid setting was turned on with default bios settings. I reset it to ahci and got the alien head bios screen upon restart. Still went to black screen after the alien head and did not try to continue windows install so I restarted installation of windows... Went througj the beginning process from disc and then it does its restart and goes to solid black screen and doesnt continue install after posting and showing alien head screen that you hit f2 on to Get into bios settings.just goes black. I'm quite sure it's a bios setting that is throwing it off. Just don't know which ones to check.
Also I have already reverted back to official gts 450 sli setup to eliminate the problem being the gpu setup all hardware is set up exactly like it was originally... The problem is almost positively a bios setting. Just not sure which ones to check...
Any help appreciated...
Tesla1856
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June 17th, 2017 22:00
The Auorra-R3 is probably the most troublesome of all the Auroras (with it's RAM finicky-ness) and other oddities. Also, this my notes about video cards:
It should work if you have 875w PowerSupply, and it has the proper-pinned power-plugs natively.
Since it's Aurora-R3 you better get one with a Dual-BIOS switch that supports both Legacy and UEFI Hybrid.
Aurora R3 is maybe just EFI (not true uEFI) so it can't decide which it needs. Save yourself a lot of trouble and get one with a switch on the video-card.
Reportedly, some newer MSI & Sapphire cards have the switch. It was mostly reported/focused around AMD cards, so not sure if NVidia cards display the same issues.
You might have to un-snap and remove the Aurora's plastic video-card air guide if new card exhausts into case.
I also have this from my notes that someone wrote:
Just wanted to say that the R9 380 does work. But you have to buy a hybrid BIOS graphic-card like "Sapphire R9 380 Nitro". The Sapphire cards are able to switch the BIOS boot from UEFI to legacy BIOS. There is a small "switch" at the corner of the card you can use. It works fine without any issues.
K.c.s.
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June 17th, 2017 22:00
I have been searching for secure boot and the other options in the bios and can't find any. Where are they hiding? When the pc was set to raid it wouldn't even show the alien face to get into bios... I just had to spam f2 and wait for beep to get into bios. The screen would just go black after bios beep amd out was dead. So I thonk i Sikhs stick with ahci disk mode...
Tesla1856
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June 17th, 2017 22:00
What happens when you try to install one Nvidia GTS-450 and try to install Windows7-64bit ?
I would try Legacy (non-UEFI) and SecureBoot off.
If it doesn't work with AHCI, then try RAID (would be a "single-disk RAID"). In RAID Mode, if Windows can't find HDD to install to, you might need Intel F6 drivers.
K.c.s.
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June 17th, 2017 22:00
Also running single gpu is yielding exact same results.
Tesla1856
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June 17th, 2017 22:00
Maybe they aren't there, however that doesn't invalidate the other things I posted.
I don't have that machine, and what I posted is about all I remember. This Forum however likely has many posts about Aurora-R3 doing strange things. Just troubleshot like a normal PC.
K.c.s.
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June 18th, 2017 13:00
The answer was simple but not so obvious. The standard boot order set by bios was the right hd however non uefi mode. Changing it to uefi in bout order solved that problem at least. Windows is going through next steps of setup now... Curious to see what other problems I run into lol
Tesla1856
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June 18th, 2017 14:00
Glad to hear you got something to work.
Right, "simple as possible" means only one HDD connected for now.