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I want to access my BIOS without taking out my GeForce GTX 970 graphics card. My 970 disables my BIOS and so I would need to take out my graphics card to get around it. Is there another solution that doesn't require me to take out my 970? I want to enable Intel VT-x (which is supported with my processor) for virtualization.

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  • What card exactly is it? I've never heard of something like this happening. Did you have to enable an option to disable BIOS?
    – Tim G.
    Aug 27, 2016 at 22:28
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    It is not possible for your card to disable your BIOS. Something else is going on. Can you be more specific?
    – Ramhound
    Aug 27, 2016 at 22:29
  • @TimmyJim It's a Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Amp! Extreme COre Edition.
    – Mr McClean
    Aug 27, 2016 at 22:56
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    That just means the card is preventing your system from being able to POST.
    – Ramhound
    Aug 27, 2016 at 22:59
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    CamouflougedCow - I have seen this before when the there's a conflict with the graphics card on the card not playing well with the built-in graphics card on the motherboard. The solution I believe was to disable built-in graphics card in BIOS where you can enable that and then plug in the card and if I recall correctly, that resolved in the cases where this has been applicable in instances I've seen occur. I will gladly add as an answer if you want me to and it works but that's what I'd try next. The make and model of the PC may be helpful too. I think Intel and AMD based mixed causes issue.
    – Vomit IT - Chunky Mess Style
    Aug 31, 2016 at 2:21

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The computer's BIOS might be too old to handle this video card. Let us know your computer model and operating system, as well as the BIOS version (displayed when booting), to check if a newer BIOS exists (and to give better answers). Ensure also that your chipset driver is up to date.

The post New PC won't boot when GTX 970 card is installed has this solution which might (or not) apply to your BIOS :

I changed 2 settings in the BIOS and the next time I installed the card everything started up great. First I changed "PCI Express Slot and M.2 Bandwidth" from "PCIe Express 1 and 2 slot at X1 Mode" to "M.2 Mode". This probably made the difference. I also randomly changed POST delay from 3 to 5 but that sounds less likely to have fixed the problem.

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  1. Check the Video Priorities in the BIOS. Set PCIE on top and then plug in your Graphics Card again.
  2. Update your Graphics Card BIOS, if possible

Pretty sure that only the priority list is in the wrong order.

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I've seen this before with some poorly written BIOSes. Likely what is happening is that the BIOS is posting all of its diagnostic messages to the onboard video, but you don't see them because nothing is plugged in there. Then, when Windows loads the driver for the video card, everything comes up normally.

What you can do in this situation is connect one of your screen's inputs to the onboard video. Most monitors have multiple inputs on them (say, one HDMI and one DVI port). Whenever you need to go into your BIOS just switch the screen to that input and reboot. It should still respond to Del, F12, or whatever your BIOS key is. You just wouldn't see anything unless you're looking at the onboard video's output and not your video card.

Unfortunately there's nothing you can really do about this unless there is a setting in your BIOS that controls it.

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