MSI GTX 580 Lightning + Asrock Z68 Pro 3 Issue

Hi!
I just bought a new computer with gtx 580 lightning and asrock z68 pro 3 motherboard. I am having issues with the pci-e slot and the graphics card. My motherboard doesnt recognize the card. I have updated my MB bios to newest one but it didn't help. I also tried the lightning in my old gaming rig and it worked fine there. Also tried my old graphics card in my new rig and worked just fine. Power wise I should be fine because my old rig has 600w power supply and it worked, new rig has 50 wats more and is more quality PSU.
Also the red and green leds on the gtx 580 lightning are on and fans are spinning but when I try to attach the monitor it just doesnt give anything out.
I am really running out of options here and dunno what to do. I have the intel i5 2500k processor so I can use the onboard graphics to prowse the web. Also managed to install win7 64bit and MB drivers.
Anyone having this same issue ? Or any solutions to my problem? Would be nice to get my rig up and running fully.
Thanks!

Quote from: Bas on 07-September-11, 04:33:45
AsRock already tested the combination and it works:
http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/45683-asrock-z68-pro-3-msi-gtx-580-lightning-issue.html
Maybe the motherboard has broken PCI-e slots, as Asrock suggested, goto a dealer and check it out with them.
The combination is not a problem, but if a PCI-e slot is broken it can explain all of this.
As the card works in other systems, it's hardly possible it's the card, else it would fail too.
And yes, because an ATI card works it doesn't mean the PCI-e slot is good, have seen such before.
He replaced the board with new one Asus P8P67 Pro and still doesn't works on-board led shows VGA init error.
So 2 different brand new boards with broken slots is very unlikely. [both of them worked fine with different video cards]
The MSI's GTX 580 Lightning worked fine in meantime with the same PSU [he also tested with different one and it works fine with both PSU's on 3th board] on 3th different mainboard.
It's some kind of compatibility issue [based on all facts]
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AsRock already tested the combination and it works:
http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/45683-asrock-z68-pro-3-msi-gtx-580-lightning-issue.html
They test it but not with the same card Lightning card, they used reference card instead [MSI N580GTX-M2D15D5].
The VBIOS structure of the non reference design used on Lightning cards are very different compared to regular versions,
as well the card itself compared to reference one.

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Quote from: Svet on 30-August-11, 01:57:10
Oks,
625W-155W = 470W , 470W/12V = 39A
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I would replace that PSU with better one, [more quality one, not Fortron] and single rail [not a multi rail PSU] ==> PSU's---2 x 12v---The Dual Rail Myth: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=77071.0
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Strangely enough, I only heard about MSI Products since last night, and I knew straight up, I needed to get my hands on one of these outstanding products.
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Quote from: JohnZS on 29-December-11, 21:02:31
Sorry I must admit I must have not made myself quite clear, it is both fans on the GPU which rev up to very fast speeds for a second or two. I have noticed that this only happens within the first say 10-20minutes of the PC being switched on, it then calms down and acts as normal after a while.
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I shall have to take the side off and inspect the LEDs.
John
Quote from: JohnZS on 29-December-11, 21:02:31
Sorry I must admit I must have not made myself quite clear, it is both fans on the GPU which rev up to very fast speeds for a second or two.
Yes, i confused your case with this one: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=155293.0
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Quote from: Svet on 22-August-11, 03:31:24
have you tried msi's drivers too? http://www.msi.com/product/vga/N580GTX-Lightning-Xtreme-Edition.html#/?div=Driver&os=Win7%2032
No I haven't. I didn't even think of that. I always go for the official nvidia drivers. I'm downloading it now.
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I found some "info" here:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4008/nvidias-geforce-gtx-580/4
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NVIDIA slightly revised their display controller for GF110/GTX580; the good news is that HDMI 1.4a is supported, the bad news is that full audio bitstreaming is not supported so it’s the same as it was on the GTX 480: 8 channel LPCM and lossy audio formats like DD+ and DTS. This actually caught us off-guard since we were expecting the full GF104 treatment here, but it just goes to show that this is a GF100-derrivative after all. Unfortunately this also extends to the number of displays supported – NVIDIA still only supports 2 displays on one card, so you need to run in SLI if you intend to take advantage of 3DVision/NVIDIA surround across 3 monitors.
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Quote from: Dennis.MSI on 12-September-11, 07:19:19
Hi Clio16v (1.8 or 2.0? )
For your information:
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Quote from: KillySG on 15-October-11, 02:43:45
Hi Svet,
I Though that too, but the card runs fine in another hardware but same PSU (tested stability of the psu also, checked the 80+ Gold status too in live test) and another not so fancy psu. One 275GTX runs flawless too. So I'm thinking in that my mb doesn´t like the 580 lighting (and loves the 275). I'll see a possible upgrade to one 990FX (MSI) next month, hoping the issues vanish
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I know 750w is sufficient for a 770 but does it have enough amps on the 12v rail?
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341052
Take it?
Quote from: sew333 on 07-November-13, 23:43:50
I know 750w is sufficient for a 770 but does it have enough amps on the 12v rail?
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Quote from: trumengan on 02-November-11, 18:36:48
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i'm sorry my english is bad, i'm from indonesia
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