Z68MA-ED55 (B3) dvi + hdmi issues

[campfiregirls]

When I first got my Z68MA-ED55, it would boot up, but the monitor remained blank except for a blinking cursor at the top of the screen. This happened with both a dvi connection to the monitor and an hdmi connection. When I used a vga cable, the display worked. I updated the bios from 10.0 to 10.2, changed to ahci, and installed win7 64. Everything worked great and sounded great, but the board would still not display from dvi or hdmi ports.

The only thing left I can think to do is change the boot priority from PEG (PciEGraphics) to IGP and also enable multigpu-out in the bios. (I have to wait on some RAM I had to rma, so I can't test this until I get my ram back. I won't have a pcie gpu installed until later also.)

Has anyone else had this problem with the dvi+hdmi ports or is it supposed to behave this way unless I give IGP boot priority?

Thanks in advance!
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[Bernhard]

These boards are pretty new and I doubt anyone else has had this issue. But if your IGP setting does happen to solve the problem, then I urge you to report your finding to MSI >>How to contact MSI.<<  so that they can address this issue.

 

[HU16E]

Has anyone else had this problem with the dvi+hdmi ports or is it supposed to behave this way unless I give IGP boot priority?

If you don't have a PCI-E VGA installed, you must set IGP.

 

[campfiregirls]

Update after new ram.

I changed the boot priority to IGP and also enabled multi-display out. Saved and exited uefi. I plugged in my dvi cable and I get the exact same blinking cursor on a black screen. Same with hdmi. There are no new board bios updates beyond 10.2.

This is a little disappointing. The rest of the board seems to work fine and a new nvidia or radeon card will be going in it soon. Any other suggestions?

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[NovJoe]

Try to clear CMOS to get back the original settings and see if it works.

If it doesn't, try to >contact MSI.<<

 

[tintinmcleod]

Update after new ram.

I changed the boot priority to IGP and also enabled multi-display out. Saved and exited uefi. I plugged in my dvi cable and I get the exact same blinking cursor on a black screen. Same with hdmi. There are no new board bios updates beyond 10.2.

This is a little disappointing. The rest of the board seems to work fine and a new nvidia or radeon card will be going in it soon. Any other suggestions?

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I dont know whether it is same or not, since I'm using the big brother version compared to your board. Well, first of all, try to turning off the OCGenie first, take out your PEG then press clear CMOS to original setting.try to boot. Don't forget to put speaker/buzzer on your casing. Listen to the sound. If all settings are OK, you should here 3 beep, and 1 higher-pitch beep. You should see the MSI Logo boot screen. Until this, your POST is OK.

Previously, my Z68A-GD80 (B3) won't boot after I set SATA mode to RAID and installed the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver ver 10.5 on my Win 7 Pro 64bit. But I'm pretty sure that my POST is Ok. If that's the same scenario as you are, try to uninstall it in safe mode or reinstall your windows.

Another thing to Remember, Intel already gave a warning if you install your windows 7 on your SATA disk that configured in IDE mode then you changed it to AHCI or even RAID mode you won't be able to boot up. You should reinstall your Win7.

 

[campfiregirls]

I dont know whether it is same or not, since I'm using the big brother version compared to your board. Well, first of all, try to turning off the OCGenie first, take out your PEG then press clear CMOS to original setting.try to boot. Don't forget to put speaker/buzzer on your casing. Listen to the sound. If all settings are OK, you should here 3 beep, and 1 higher-pitch beep. You should see the MSI Logo boot screen. Until this, your POST is OK.

Previously, my Z68A-GD80 (B3) won't boot after I set SATA mode to RAID and installed the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver ver 10.5 on my Win 7 Pro 64bit. But I'm pretty sure that my POST is Ok. If that's the same scenario as you are, try to uninstall it in safe mode or reinstall your windows.

Another thing to Remember, Intel already gave a warning if you install your windows 7 on your SATA disk that configured in IDE mode then you changed it to AHCI or even RAID mode you won't be able to boot up. You should reinstall your Win7.

Hey, this doesn't really apply, because my problem isn't a boot problem, it's a display problem. I do not use OCGenie because it's not good. I have no dedicated GPU yet, only the empty pcie16 slot. The display problem has nothing to do with windows because it was doing it before I ever installed windows. I had to use the VGA cable just to see anything on the monitor. If I use the dvi or hdmi cable and turn my computer on, it boots up and goes to my win7 log in screen (I can hear the windows start up sound), I just can't see it because the monitor stays black with a blinking cursor on it. Obviously the ports are trying to send a signal since the monitor detects them (and even puts yellow text randomly on the screen if I use the OCGenie button) so it really seems like the ports are faulty or mis-configured in the bios. I already cleared the cmos several times before I realized the display worked with VGA out. My board works great except for those 2 ports.

bring on the bios revision msi!

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[tintinmcleod]

have you tried another monitor? what kind of monitor with you now?

This is interesting since I tried the barebone configuration (i.e. mainboard, CPU and memory only). I connected my Samsung LCD TV LA26R71B (manufacturing date is around 2006) with HDMI cable v1.3. It displayed the POST process, and booting process finish until windows logon screen.

well, there are so many different variables between our configuration. but maybe you should wait or contact MSI Technical Support to update the latest BIOS version. until then, is it possible to downgrading your BIOS version?

 

[Diverge]

bring on the bios revision msi!

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It's most likely not a bios problem if it's working fine on the boards of various other people and bios versions.

Have you tried reseating your CPU? Clearing the bios settings?

 

[Bernhard]

Diverge, it seems to be quite common for people using the Integrated graphics and then using either the DVI or HDMI connector to a HDMI-in on a TV. The D-Sub connections seem to work fine.
A couple of possibilities exist.
1. HDMI cables that are not compliant, i.e. a 1.3 may be needed ?
2. A handshake between the output and TV does not take place as per the technical specifications.
3. The Intel Graphics protocol is not fully compliant
4. The BIOS does not apply the protocol correctly on initialisation.

Either way, the more the users send their findings to MSI, the sooner a solution may be found.>>How to contact MSI.<<

 

[HU16E]

As Bernhard recommends, the more tickets into MSI Tech Support the better, & the sooner an answer or resolution will be found. Not sure if this is any factor, but the new Z68 mainboards are HDMI v1.4.

 

[campfiregirls]

MSI sent me a 10.3beta BIOS (that enabled virtu which the board was supposed to have in the first place), but it did not fix the ports. I ended up RMAing the board back to newegg. Oh wells. I really liked the board too!

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